Victim's Mother Blames Prison System For Allowing Daughter's Attack

FRENCH CAMP (CBS13) - A woman badly beaten is now in a coma fighting for life after an attack the victim's mother says should have never happened.

This mother has been living a nightmare for weeks, her daughter in the hospital, unable to talk or move, all after investigators say the suspect tried to kill her. While this mom blames the suspect, she also blames the state.

Video of Brandy Arreola in the hospital taken just Tuesday morning shows the feeding tube and her inability to speak or practically even move.

"If they would have kept him in there, my daughter would be OK right now," Diana Munoz said.

Munoz says the suspect, Raoul Leyva, put her daughter in the hospital. She just came out of a coma just two days ago after a beating that nearly killed her.

"She had strangle marks around her neck, she had a black eye, she had bruises on her arms," Munoz said. "Her arms were just like purple and black."

She says if the state didn't make the controversial, cost-saving move to send parolees to county jails when they break the rules, Leyva would have never been able to hurt her daughter.

The two had been dating for a month when Leyva violated his parole by failing to register as a sex offender.

"I said, 'Mija, I see something bad Mija, I see him killing you twice already,'" Munoz said she told her daughter. "I said 'listen to me.' She said, 'Mom, I'm not a baby. I can take care of myself."

Munoz blames the state, saying had the laws remained the way they were, her daughter might not be this helpless 20-year-old now forced to live life from a hospital bed.

"Why would they let a violent offender out?" she asked. "Why would they even let them do their time in the county jail? You know, county jail here is like a picnic."

Munoz says he daughter finally just opened her eyes Monday. She's been told by doctors that this is probably the best it is going to get.

Leyva is charged with attempted murder and several other crimes.