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Amy Louise Chavoya was held to answer for the torture and murder of a Madera girl named Mariah F. The court bound Chavoya over on counts including murder involving torture, and inflicting great bodily injury on Mariah and her brother Christopher. The investigation continues against Chavoya's husband Gerardo Flores, a sheriff's deputy, and charges against him will be filed soon. The District Attorney is working to review matters involving Chavoya's foster care and adoption of Mariah to ensure all safeguards were followed and pursue justice for Mariah.

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Amy Louise Chavoya was held to answer for the torture and murder of a Madera girl named Mariah F. The court bound Chavoya over on counts including murder involving torture, and inflicting great bodily injury on Mariah and her brother Christopher. The investigation continues against Chavoya's husband Gerardo Flores, a sheriff's deputy, and charges against him will be filed soon. The District Attorney is working to review matters involving Chavoya's foster care and adoption of Mariah to ensure all safeguards were followed and pursue justice for Mariah.

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Amy Louise Chavoya was held to answer for the torture and murder of a Madera girl named Mariah F. The court bound Chavoya over on counts including murder involving torture, and inflicting great bodily injury on Mariah and her brother Christopher. The investigation continues against Chavoya's husband Gerardo Flores, a sheriff's deputy, and charges against him will be filed soon. The District Attorney is working to review matters involving Chavoya's foster care and adoption of Mariah to ensure all safeguards were followed and pursue justice for Mariah.

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Amy Louise Chavoya was held to answer for the torture and murder of a Madera girl named Mariah F. The court bound Chavoya over on counts including murder involving torture, and inflicting great bodily injury on Mariah and her brother Christopher. The investigation continues against Chavoya's husband Gerardo Flores, a sheriff's deputy, and charges against him will be filed soon. The District Attorney is working to review matters involving Chavoya's foster care and adoption of Mariah to ensure all safeguards were followed and pursue justice for Mariah.

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OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY

COUNTY OF MADERA
209 W. Yosemite Avenue/Madera, California 93637
(559)675-7726 / FAX (559)673-0430

David A. Linn, District Attorney

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2015

Contact:

David Linn
District Attorney
(559) 675-7726

AMY LOUISE CHAVOYA HELD TO ANSWER FOR THE TORTURE


AND MURDER OF MADERA GIRL
MADERA, CA. District Attorney David A. Linn announced today that Superior Court Judge
Mitchell Rigby ruled on the preliminary hearing of Amy Louise Chavoya this morning after
hearing testimony and arguments on December 11, 14, and 15, that the defendant, Amy Louise
Chavoya of Madera, be held to answer and be bound over on all counts including the special
circumstance and corresponding enhancements of the murder of Mariah F, involving the
infliction of torture within the meaning of the California penal code section 190.2(a)(18).
Additionally, the court bound the defendant over on Counts 2, 3, and 4 of the first
amended complaint. Counts 2 and 3, both PC206, allege that Ms. Chavoya, with the intent to
cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and
for a sadistic purpose, inflict great bodily injury, as defined in Penal Code section 12022.7, upon
Mariah F and her brother Christopher. Count 4, PC273a(a), alleges that Ms. Chavoya, under
circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm and death, injure, cause, and permit a child,
Mariah F, to suffer and to be inflicted with unjustifiable physical pain and mental suffering, and,
having the care and custody of said child, injure, cause, and permit the person and health of said
child to be injured and did cause and permit said child to be placed in such a situation that her
person and health was endangered. It is further alleged pursuant to section 12022.95 that Ms.
Chavoya, under circumstances and conditions likely to produce great bodily harm and death,
willfully caused and permitted a child to suffer, and inflicted thereon unjustifiable physical pain
and injury that resulted in death, and having the care and custody of a child, under circumstances
likely to produce great bodily harm and death, willfully caused and permitted that child to be
injured and harmed and that injury and harm resulted in death.
D.A. Linn thanked Senior Deputy District Attorney John Baker, Deputy District Attorney
Christine Nijjer, and Lieutenant Bill Ward of the Madera County Sheriffs Department for their
excellent work in this case. Linn also stated that the testimony of Dr. Phillip Hayden, of Valley
Childrens Hospital, was impassioned and very valuable to this prosecution. Linn sated that the
successful outcome of the preliminary hearing was because the District Attorneys and Sheriffs
offices functioned as a team and accomplished all of the goals that they had.

The case has been set for Arraignment on the Felony information, December 30, 2015, in
Department 29, at 8:30am.
D.A. Linn stated that no decision as to whether the prosecution will elect to pursue the death
penalty has yet been made. Additionally, the investigation against defendant Chavoyas
husband, Gerardo Flores, a San Joaquin County Sheriffs Deputy, continues and that a complaint
against Mr. Flores will be filed in the near future.
D.A. Linn also stated that he is in the process of acquiring court permission to review all matters
concerning the defendants foster care and adoption of the victim, for purposes of prosecution of
Ms. Chavoya and Mr. Flores, and to ensure that all appropriate safeguards were followed to
protect the minor children as provided under the law.
D.A. Linn said, We will ensure that justice is finally obtained for young Mariah and that this
type of case never happens again in Madera County or any other county in the State of
California.

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