ALBUQUERQUE - Audrina Veneno, 23, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to fourteen-months of imprisonment prison followed by one year of supervised release for her conviction on a child abuse charge.
Veneno was arrested in March 2015, on an indictment charging her with assaulting the victim, a child under the age of 16 years. The indictment alleged that Veneno committed the crime on Nov. 6, 2014, on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in Rio Arriba County, N.M.
On July 27, 2017, Veneno pled guilty to an information charging her with child abuse. In entering the guilty plea, Veneno admitted that on Nov. 6, 2014, she recklessly permitted the victim, an eight-month old infant, to be placed in a situation that endangered the victim’s life or health. Veneno further admitted that the victim suffered swelling and bruising to the victim’s face.
This case was investigated by the Farmington office of the FBI and the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Raquel Ruiz-Velez prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
