Murdered Baby's Mother Told Of Having Sex With Alleged Killer To 'Find Out What Happened To My Son'

The mother of a murdered baby took the witness stand Friday to tell how she kept having sex with her son’s alleged killer for more than a year in hopes of finding out how the child died.

Sandra Sitko, 33, said she also “cared about” Santos Lopez even though he was suspected of killing her 8-month-old son, Kevion.

Loza, 34, allegedly killed Kevion in October 2008. During Kevion’s autopsy, a forensic pathologist found evidence of 35 separate injuries, including a fractured skull and broken ribs.

Loza’s murder trial—his second—started this week.

Sitko said she hooked up with Loza through a website less than three months prior to Kevion’s death. The first time they met in the flesh, Sitko brought Kevion and his older brother, Dillion, along to rendezvous with him at a Walmart, then went over to his townhouse in Joliet so they could have sex.

In the months leading up to Kevion’s death, Sitko took her children to Loza’s home about four nights a week to have sex. She would pick the boys up from where her father was watching them at their West Chicago apartment after working the night shift at McDonald’s, then put Dillion to bed on a couch and Kevion to sleep on the floor of an empty bedroom, she said.

Loza would make Sitko and the children leave his home each morning about 5 because he had to go to work and did not want them in his house when he wasn’t there, she said.

The night before Kevion was found dead, Sitko decided to let Loza babysit him for the first time while she worked at McDonald’s. After she got off work, she picked up Dillion from her father, drove to Joliet, took a quick peek into the bare bedroom where Kevion was sleeping on the floor, and went to bed with Loza, she said. In the morning, the baby was dead.

Sitko said she continued to have sex with Loza for the next year and three months, but did cut down her visits to about three a week. She also wore a wire for the Joliet police to record her conversations with Loza, she said, and continued having sex with him even though detectives told her not to.

“I wanted to find out what happened to my son,” Sitko explained. “I was trying to find out what happened to Kevion every time.”

One of Loza’s attorneys, Joseph “Shark” Lopez, asked Sitko if she was trying to solve the mystery at the same time she was having sex with the alleged murderer.

“When you were having sex were you asking him, ‘What did you do to my son?’ Or was that after?” Lopez said.

“It was before and after,” Sitko told him.

Loza may have gotten Sitko pregnant twice during this time. The first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. The second resulted in the birth of a girl in 2010.

A jury already found Loza guilty of murder in September 2013 but Will County Judge Sarah Jones reversed the conviction.

Jones decided to give Loza a new trial when she ruled that limiting the questions lawyers could ask Sitko about her sexual relationship with him was a mistake. Judge Jones had forbidden defense lawyers from asking about the couple’s sexual history after February 2009.

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