Story out of Sanford, Florida:
A 27-year-old Oviedo mother was ordered held without bail today after her arrest on charges that she strangled her one-year-old daughter with a string of Halloween lights and blamed her 2-year-old son.
Her daughter died Thursday night at Oviedo's emergency room.
DePasquale told an Oviedo police detective that about 10 p.m. Thursday, she left her daughter, Mia Rice, in the living room watching television with her 2-year-old son while she took a shower in the master bedroom.
She was gone about five minutes, she said, when she heard her son upset, saying he was sorry for hurting his sister, according to her arrest report.
Police Sgt. Matthew DePanicis tried to revive the child with CPR, the report said, but she was pronounced dead about an hour later at the emergency room.
Oviedo police Detective Christopher George noticed that the shower was dry, that DePasquale's feet were dirty and that she had on makeup and was wearing jewelry, according to the arrest report.
The marks on the child's neck were consistent with the braided string of pumpkin lights, he wrote, but they were deep and would have required more force than a 2-year-old boy could muster.
Volusia County Medical Examiner Marie Herrmann, who performed an autopsy, ruled that the child was the victim of a homicide — not an accident — and had been strangled.
On Monday, DePasquale asked for a lawyer, and a short time later police arrested her, accusing her of premeditated murder and child abuse. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)
Story from - Orlando Sentinel
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