Esperanza Rae Harding and Edwin Cosmo Trudeau (Mug shots: Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office).
The mother of a slain baby boy learned her fate Thursday. Esperanza Rae Harding, 21, must spend 32 years in prison for one count of second-degree intentional murder.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Harding told cops she drowned 8-month-old Mateo because his crying ruined her bath at a hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Feb. 28, 2024. (Prior reporting had his age as 7 months.) She texted her boyfriend, Edwin Cosmo Trudeau, 19, in the lead-up to the crime, “he doing to much rn, I can’t sleep, Im trying tho, Im about to do something bad, Please answer me, He going to no be here much longer.”
Instead of talking her out of it, Trudeau wrote her, “Ok that’s ok.”
And when she later wrote that Mateo was dead and she was sorry, he replied, “Don’t be.”
