Posted Aug. 23, 2008 – A 3-pound infant who was delivered a month early after his mother was pinned under a bus that was struck by a drunk-driving senior nearly two weeks ago has died.

The baby, Sean Michael Justin Sanz, had been in intensive care after being delivered by Caesarean section at a Bronx hospital on Aug. 14. As reported on BET.com last week, his mother, Donnette Sanz, died shortly after being  pulled out from under a 5-ton bus by pedestrians in their Bronx, N.Y. neighborhood.

Now, a week after his premature birth, his newly-widowed father Rafael Sanz is bereaved again – and deeply hurt.

"She never got to see our baby, but she was in love with him," said Rafael Sanz, tears streaming from his eyes. "He meant everything to me. He died in my arms."

But Rafael Sanz had little love for Walter Walker, the 72-year-old man who police said was sloshed when he slammed his van into Ms. Sanz and sent her flying into the path of a school bus as she crossed a Bronx street on her lunch break.

"I hope he really does rot in hell. I hope he dies a horrible death," The New York Daily News reported.

Authorities say that Walker has a history of driving offenses and arrests over the past two decades. They say he’s had his license suspended 20 times. Walker said he tried to stop before hitting Sanz but couldn’t.

Court records show that the brakes on Walker ’s van had deteriorated and were unsafe, according to the Daily News.

Walker faces charges of criminally negligent homicide and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, but he has not entered pleas, according to his attorney, Michael Torres, who said that his client is “devastated” by the accident.

The boy will be buried with his mother, the News reports.