A mother of Los Angeles allegedly drowned her 7 -year -old daughter in a bathtub after falling into a deep depression desperately for her illegal status in the United States, according to her fiance.
The girl was found unconscious in the bathtub by the lifeguards in her mother’s apartment in Van Nies on Friday night, moments after a neighbor remembered having heard a boy screaming chilling “Mommy, please, no!” Kabc reported.
Graciela Castellanos, 37, was arrested and then accused of murder after her daughter, whose name has not released her leg, was declared dead on the scene, According to the Los Angeles County District Prosecutor’s Office.
His fiance, who asked not to be appointed, told Kabc that he believes that Castellanos was caused to kill the girl after being depressed after learning that he could not become a legal resident in the United States.
Castellanos suffers from mental and emotional health problems, which sometimes forced her to isolate and shout until she calmed down, but it was never violent to see the episodes, she said.
“First, I mean that my wife was an almost perfect mother.
“She was the sweetest mother in the world.”
They had to marry in two months, and he planned to adopt his daughter, he said.
The Los Angeles County District Prosecutor told The Post that they could not provide information about Castellanos and his daughter’s immigration state.
Metraje of the scene Obeyed by Ktla It shows Castellanos, who seemed to have laceration injuries, being tasks in custody in a wheelchair, his dolls restricted to the chair.
“The assumptions of this case, where a mother is accused of intentionally removing the lives of her little son, are deeply tragic and deeply disturbing,” said Da Nathan Hochman in a statement.
“Our sympathy is with the family and loved ones of this young woman, whose life was reduced too soon.
Castellanos faces a sentence of maximum of 25 years to life imprisonment, according to the district prosecutor. It is stopped on bail of $ 2 million and is scheduled to appear before the court for a preliminary hearing on June 17.
