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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / POMONA

By Christine Hanley and Corina Knoll
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An inmate who walked away from a Pomona social services center with her newborn while attending a mandated parenting program was found Monday in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.

Daphne Delorah Miner, 35, and her son, who is less than two weeks old, were found about 9:45 a.m. at a motel, according to a Pomona Police Department statement.

Officers were tipped off to Miner’s whereabouts after someone recognized her from news photos and called the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Miner, who is serving a state prison sentence, was enrolled in a parenting program at Prototypes Women’s Center, a nonprofit agency that provides programs for more than 15,000 Southern California women and their families each year, according to its website.

Miner, who does not have parental rights to her child, was taken into custody and her son was turned over to the Department of Children and Family Services.

-- Christine Hanley and Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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