Woman Pleads Guilty, Sentenced to 52 Years for Texas Boy’s Death

Woman Pleads Guilty, Sentenced to 52 Years for Texas Boy’s Death
Theresa Raye Balboa. Houston Police Department via AP
The Associated Press
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HOUSTON—A woman on Wednesday agreed to a 52-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in the 2021 death of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old Houston son, whose body she had kept hidden in a storage unit before it was discovered in an East Texas hotel, according to prosecutors.

During a court hearing, Theresa Balboa, 31, pleaded guilty to murder in the death of Samuel Olson. Her plea was part of an agreement with prosecutors, who reduced the charge against her from capital murder to murder.