Daly City Woman Guilty Of 2nd-Degree Murder In Deadly Boiling Water Attack
SAN MATEO (CBS/AP) - A Northern California woman is facing 16 years to life behind bars after being convicted of killing her ex-husband by dousing him with scalding water.
San Mateo County prosecutors say 41-year-old Jesusa Ursonal Tatad pleaded no contest to second-degree murder on Wednesday. She is scheduled to be sentenced May 17.
Tatad and her ex-husband, 36-year-old Ronnie Tatad, shared a Daly City apartment. Prosecutors say she pulled back the blankets while he slept on Nov. 26, 2011, and threw a pot of boiling water on him.
They say she was upset because she believed he was seeing another woman.
Ronnie Tatad died about two weeks later of a blood infection connected to his burns.
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