CHICAGO (TCN) — Police arrested a 37-year-old woman who allegedly claimed she suffocated a 1-year-old girl with a bedsheet because voices in her head told her she needed to kill her daughter.
The Chicago Police Department announced they took Marisol Vazquez into custody on Jan. 2 for allegedly killing her daughter on Dec. 20.
According to a police report cited by WGN-TV, on Dec. 20, Vazquez woke her sister up at the house they lived in with their father. Vazquez was reportedly naked and holding her daughter, who was cold to the touch, and speaking about God. The sister called police, but Vazquez reportedly tried to push the phone away from her sister.
Chicago Police arrived at the home on North Springfield Avenue and found a bathtub filled with water and clothes. WBBM-TV reports water came out of the victim’s mouth when paramedics attempting lifesaving measures.
Police noted Vazquez made “incoherent statements about being trapped by electronics and that everyone has been raped,” as well as needing to “go in the water. We had to be with nature.”
Vazquez allegedly admitted to police that she killed her daughter by suffocating her with a bedsheet. Vazquez reportedly said she attempted to drown herself, but then she turned to cutting.
WGN reports the girl’s cause of death was asphyxia due to assault.
Prosecutors reportedly said in court Vazquez made comments about how the “devil was going to kill and eat the victim, so she should kill the victim and herself.”
Vazquez allegedly believed using the sheet was “the fastest or least painful way for the victim to go to heaven.”
Vazquez is in custody at the Cook County Jail without bond.
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