{"id":658835,"date":"2010-02-08T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:24:11","slug":"seal-beach-mom-charged-in-death-of-22-month-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658835","title":{"rendered":"Seal Beach mom charged in death of 22-month-old daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Seal Beach mother of four was charged Monday in the death of her 22-month-old daughter and for allegedly fracturing the skull of the dead child&#8217;s male twin,\u00a0 authorities said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Linda Wilborn, 31, was charged with one felony count of assault on a child with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death and three felony counts of child abuse, the Orange County district attorney&#8217;s office said. She was arrested Monday by the Seal Beach Police Department and was being held in lieu of $1-million bail.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Wilborn allegedly ruptured the heart of the child who died, the district attorney&#8217;s office said. The child died after being taken to the hospital.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The district attorney said Wilborn subjected her twins to physical abuse between Oct. 17 and Dec. 17, 2009.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Her three other children have been placed in protective custody, prosecutors said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Wilborn is expected to be arraigned Wednesday at the Santa Ana courthouse. If convicted, she faces up to 25 years to life in state prison, according to the district attorney.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<br \/><\/br><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Seal Beach mother of four was charged Monday in the death of her 22-month-old daughter and for allegedly fracturing the skull of the dead child&#8217;s male twin,\u00a0 authorities said.Linda Wilborn, 31, was charged with one felony count of assault on a child with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Lon","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760111,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658835\/revisions\/760111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}