New developments in Antonio Lopez trial

A big development in court Thursday afternoon as the capital murder trial for Antonio Lopez continues.

Lopez is accused of killing 11-month-old Jayla Beckley in 2012.

Wednesday the jury saw the interrogation video where Lopez admitted to stomping on Jayla and calling 911.

But Thursday the defense questioned another child that was in the home when baby Jayla died– a child that a foster mother says has a violent past.

That child is Abigail Flores. She is 15 years old and she was flown in from Phoenix to take the stand.

According to the defense Flores who was 12 at the time was under the supervision of Lopez and in the home when baby Jayla died.

The defense claims that in 2012 Abigail admitted to her foster mother that she killed Jayla.

But on the stand Flores was asked,”Do you remember seeing a baby?”

Flores responded “No.”

She was asked by the defense, ‘Do you see anybody in this courtroom that was in that house?”

She replied “No.”

The defense said “I’m going to ask you a hard question… a baby died in that house, did you kill that baby?”

Flores said “No.”

Flores’s former foster mother Mari Medina was also called to the stand.

She was asked by the defense to describe Flores’s violent past.

Medina said at one point Flores, “Stabbed another foster child in the back of the head with a pencil..”

And on another occasion she, “caught Flores shaking a little boy’s head,”
after she had explained to Flores what shaken baby syndrome was.

The trial continues Friday at 8 a.m.