Monday, October 27, 2008

Brooklyn mom beat 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop.

This is awful. I hope there's a reserved space in hell for this woman. The sickest part is that she left her to slowly die over three days. Amazingly, she hasn't been charged yet. From Newsday:
A Brooklyn mother has confessed she fatally beat her 11-year-old daughter with a mop handle and left her to die in bed, police said.

Florenzia Vazquez, 36, allegedly told detectives she hit the girl so hard on the head that the handle shattered.

The girl, Alejandra Vazquez, was found dead Sunday in the family's Atlantic Avenue apartment -- three days after she was left whimpering in her bedroom.

The mother and her unidentified boyfriend -- the father of two of her other children -- called 911 after a man renting a room from them saw the girl lying motionless, according to the Daily News.

The city's child welfare agency is investigating and charges against the couple are pending.

During an interview with police, the girl's mother told investigators she "despises" her daughter and chased her around the family's East New York home on Thursday, striking her with the mop handle. The girl, who tried to escape the beating by hiding beneath a baby crib, then lay in bed for three days, vomiting and unable to eat.

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