The Region - News from Jan. 6, 1985

A Sun Valley woman whose 5-year-old son suffocated in a clothes dryer while she was at work last May was sentenced to three months in County Jail and placed on three years’ probation. Kimberly Miranda, 25, who had pleaded no contest to charges of misdemeanor child endangering, also was ordered by Los Angeles Municipal Judge William Pounders to undergo counseling and therapy. Pounders stayed the three-month jail term for six months, pending a supplemental probation report. Miranda’s son, Joshua, died and her 7-year-old daughter was seriously injured after the two children accidently locked themselves and two kittens in a front-loading dryer last May 14.