The baby had pronounced bite marks over much of his body (Photo: KENS 5) 
 
 SAN ANTONIO -- State investigators have shut down a far northwest-side home day care operation after they said an infant there was bitten 27 times by another child. 
 
 Child Care Licensing ordered the homeowner to cease operations Monday after an investigation revealed she had been operating out of a home on Bentwood View without a license. Investigators found eight children in the home and determined it had been in operation for eight years. 
 
 The infant, who was rushed to a hospital Friday, had pronounced bite marks all over his body, including his eyes, cheeks, legs, stomach and back. The parents of the baby, who asked not to be identified, said the day care operator waited four hours to call them and did so only after the baby's injuries did not fade away. 
 
 The parents rushed the infant to a hospital Friday (Photo: KENS 5) 
 
 KENS 5 is not naming the operator because she has not been criminally charged. 
 
 A San Antonio Police Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday the case is under investigation by its sex crimes unit. The spokesman said it does not appear a sex crime took place; instead, the unit has taken on the case because it involves the possibility that a crime was committed against a child. 
 
 The home day care operator spoke with the I-Team Tuesday morning (Photo: Jason Eggleston) 
 
 The operator could face charges of child neglect or injury to a child by omission if SAPD determines something could have been done to prevent the baby's injuries. 
 
 "At that moment, no. Yesterday, I found out," the operator told the I-Team on Tuesday morning when asked if she knew she had to have a license to operate. She claims she called the baby's parents within a few minutes of finding the bite marks. 
 
 A neighbor living a few doors down told the I-Team he took his daughter to the home for a year and never had any issues. A second parent called the KENS 5 newsroom Tuesday afternoon and said she had taken her child to the home for several years and the incident was "being blown out of proportion." 
 
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 A Child Protective Services spokeswoman told the I-Team on Tuesday that the operator has expressed an interest in getting a license and reopening the operation. She would be required to complete several steps, including background checks and CPR training for all employees. 
 
 Investigators shut down the day care operation Monday (Photo: Jason Eggleston) 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://on.kens5.com/1FBylxA ||||| ORANGE – A woman who her husband says never accepted their 7-month-old son as "normal" was arrested on suspicion of throwing the boy from the fourth floor of a Children's Hospital of Orange County parking structure and is undergoing a psychological evaluation in the jail's medical ward while her son clings to life. 
 
 Sonia Hermosillo, 31, of La Habra is accused of tossing her baby over the railing of the parking structure about 6:20 p.m. Monday, Orange police Sgt. Dan Adams said. 
 
 "I don't know what happened yesterday," said the infant's father, Noe Medina, who was visibly emotional. 
 
 The infant, who received therapy twice a week at CHOC for conditions he was born with, remained in the intensive-care unit Tuesday afternoon at UCI Medical Center in Orange. Medina said his son suffered head trauma in the fall and is in critical condition. 
 
 Medina said his wife, who suffers from postpartum depression, grabbed their son and left their La Habra home about 5:30 p.m. while he was taking a quick shower and his daughters, 7 and 10, went outside. 
 
 "She found herself alone with the baby, and I think she saw the moment as her opportunity to grab the baby, get the car and leave," Medina said in Spanish on Tuesday afternoon at the hospital. 
 
 Medina, 29, said his wife was hospitalized in June after she said she didn't want their son, who was diagnosed with congenital muscular torticollis – a twisting of the neck to one side. The infant also wore a helmet to help correct his plagiocephaly, also known as flat-head syndrome. It was unknown if Noe, named after his father, was wearing a helmet when he was tossed over the railing. 
 
 Noe, his father said, received physical therapy every Tuesday and Thursday at CHOC and was showing signs of improvement. 
 
 "She didn't look at our son as normal," Medina said. "She didn't accept him. She didn't accept that he was like this." 
 
 Surveillance cameras in the parking structure Monday captured the license plate of a tan 2000 Chevy Blazer, which was driven by a woman and registered to an address in La Habra, Orange police Sgt. Adams said. Detectives then received a report from a man who reported his wife and infant son missing, and determined Hermosillo had been driving the Blazer that matched the one in the surveillance video. 
 
 About 10:15 p.m., Hermosillo's Blazer was spotted by a patrol officer driving past CHOC on Main Street. The officer stopped the Blazer and arrested Hermosillo. An empty child seat was found in the vehicle, Adams said. 
 
 Hermosillo was cooperative during questioning but showed no emotion, Adams said. 
 
 Hermosillo was booked on suspicion of attempted murder at Orange County Jail and is being held without bail. She is in the medical ward under psychological evaluation, said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She is also on an immigration hold, he said. 
 
 Court records show Hermosillo pleaded guilty to four traffic violations in La Habra in 2008, including driving without a valid license and having no proof of insurance. 
 
 Susan Kang Schroeder, the district attorney's chief of staff, said prosecutors have not received the case from detectives. 
 
 Adams said they expect to present their case to prosecutors Wednesday. 
 
 Medina said his wife was taking medication for postpartum depression and went to her first therapy session Monday morning at Mariposa Women and Family Center in Orange. 
 
 Medina said his wife showed improvement in recent weeks and "began to trust her." 
 
 With tears in his eyes Medina said: "I want to know my son is going to be fine, and then I'll think about what to do next. I have to stay strong for my daughters." 
 
 Register reporters Sean Greene and Salvador Hernandez contributed to this report. 
 
 Contact the writer: 714-704-3709 or desalazar@ocregister.com
– When John and Jeanette Betancourt were alerted Friday that their 4-month-old son had been bitten at his San Antonio day care, Jeanette went to pick him up and noticed the day care operator was holding the infant close to her body. "She finally turns my son around and the first thing my wife notices is his legs," John Betancourt tells the Houston Chronicle, describing a horrific scene that involved not only bites on the baby's legs, but also on his eye area, cheeks, stomach, and back—27 bites in all by another child at the day care, KENS 5 reports. Now the state of Texas has shut down the in-home operation, which investigators say is unlicensed and has been in business for eight years, and the incident is being probed by the San Antonio PD to see if the operator could face charges. The woman, who was found with eight children in her charge Monday when investigators showed up, told Jeanette Betancourt that although she heard the baby crying, she didn't think anything was wrong, per the paper. On Tuesday, the day care operator told KENS 5 that she called the parents minutes after realizing the baby had been bitten and that she wasn't aware she needed a license, saying, "Yesterday I found out." But the Betancourts tell KENS 5 that the woman waited four hours to call them (and only after the baby's wounds didn't fade), and John Betancourt tells the Chronicle, "When we went to her house to do the initial interview ... she showed us that she had a license"; he adds he wishes they'd confirmed that. Other parents who've sent their children to the day care tell KENS 5 they never had any issues. The baby, meanwhile, is healing and "doing fine now," the dad tells the Chronicle.