Mom Suffocates13-year-old Daughter, Poisons Her 3 other Kids

A mother suffocated her 13-year-old daughter with her bare hands and tried to kill her three youngest children, ages 3, 5, and 8, by forcing them to take prescription narcotic drugs on Christmas Day, according to police on Tuesday.

Villa told detectives of the Casa Grande Police Department, she wanted to prevent her ex-husband from getting custody of the four children, police said.

Connie Villa, 35 told police detectives in an interview that she forced her three youngest children to ingest the undisclosed amount of drugs at their apartment before she forced her eldest daughter, Aniarael Macias

When Macias refused to take the drugs Villa suffocated her daughter to death with her bare hands in their bathroom.

Villa lured her ex-husband, Adam Villa, to the apartment, she stabbed him repeatedly in the upper torso, according to Officer Thomas Anderson, a Casa Grande Police Department spokesman. Adam Villa, who is the biological father of her three youngest children, escaped and called 911 while driving to Casa Grande Regional Medical Center.

Responding officers had to force their way into the home, where they found Villa with apparent stab wounds to her upper torso, Anderson said. She was holding a knife to her chest and had the three younger children at her side.

Police took Villa and the three children to Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix for treatment and discovered Macias' body in the bathroom, Anderson said.

Villa faces charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing of her ex-husband and the drug poisoning of her three surviving children, ages 3, 5 and 8.

Source: USA Today
(Photo: Casa Grande (Ariz.) Police Dept., AP