Eagle Mountain mom charged with hitting, killing infant son

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EAGLE MOUNTAIN — An Eagle Mountain woman was charged Monday with hitting and killing her baby boy.

Raona Dorothy Mora, 32, is charged in 4th District Court with child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony; plus marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia, class B misdemeanors.

On Sept. 24, Mora "struck her 4-month-old child in the head hard enough to leave a visible indentation and cause fractures throughout the child's skull," according to charging documents.

The boy was flown to Primary Children's Hospital where he died a few hours later, the charges state.

Mora originally told police that she had fallen asleep while holding the infant and fell off the bed and landed on top of him. However, doctors told investigators that there was "no possibility that the extensive and life-ending injuries sustained by the 4-month-old baby boy could have resulted from the reported circumstances from Mrs. Raona Mora," a police booking affidavit states.

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Pat Reavy interned with KSL NewsRadio in 1989 and has been a full-time journalist for either KSL NewsRadio, Deseret News or KSL.com since 1991. For the past 25 years, he has worked primarily the cops and courts beat.