Mom Stabs 6 Year-Old Daughter, Says Girl Was Possessed By Demon
This really, truly disturbes me…
A Waukegan mother claimed her 6-year-old daughter attacked her with a butcher knife because the petite kindergartner was possessed by a demon, Lake County authorities said Tuesday.
Nelly Vazquez-Salazar insisted to investigators that she was defending herself when she fatally slashed and stabbed her 51-pound daughter, Evelyn, whom she had grown concerned about in recent months because the girl had started sleepwalking, authorities said.
The 25-year-old single mother was charged Tuesday with first degree-murder in the death of her only child, who was found slain early Monday in the Waukegan apartment they shared.
The youngster’s throat was slashed and she had been stabbed 10 other times, including three times in the face, Lake County prosecutors said. A religious picture lying on the floor next to the girl also had been punctured by a knife, authorities said in court as they detailed the slaying and ripped Vazquez-Salazar’s claims of how it occurred.
“She [Vazquez-Salazar] claimed the little girl was possessed by a demon,” Assistant State’s Attorney Stephen Scheller said, describing the child differently.
“She was an intelligent, vibrant, beautiful little girl. She was, in fact, an angel,” Scheller said.
Vazquez-Salazar wept softly throughout the bond hearing but didn’t speak. Her bond was set at $5 million and she remained under a suicide watch late Tuesday in the Lake County Jail.
The bizarre slaying shook even veteran police officers and prosecutors.
“A killing like this affects the whole community,” said Waukegan Police Chief William Biang. “You never want to see a vibrant, active 6-year-old taken like this.”
The little girl was found slain about 4:40 a.m. Monday after Vazquez-Salazar went to a neighbor’s apartment and told them she thought she had killed her daughter.
A bloody butcher knife was found next to the girl, as was a framed religious picture that included St. Joseph, Mary and Jesus Christ, Scheller said. The faces of all three figures had been stabbed, he said.
(Chicago Sun Times)
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Which one was possessed again?……
April 10th, 2008 at 10:13 amI’m with you on this one Bash, very very disturbing.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:18 amThe bitch will get a light sentence and couseling for mental illness…or be confined to a nuthouse.
Seems like the best thing to do with a woman this evil is to put her to sleep…like we do dogs and other wounded animals.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:27 amAnyone who would kill their 6 year old daughter because she was demon possessed has to be crazy, especially when the only reason for believing this is because she was sleep walking.
very very disturbing indeed
April 10th, 2008 at 10:32 amNote the last name here - she’s Hispanic. Not to get into rant but many do believe in evil spirits and possession. One would expect her to turn to her priest for an exorcism though. But the defilement of the icon says she probably wouldn’t have. All one can reasonably assume is that she was deranged.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:11 amEvery parent realizes this at some point. It doesn’t give us the right to kill them.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:54 am