A Florida mother stabbed her 11-year-old daughter to death before taking her dead body to a hospital, officials said.
Rosa Alcides Rivera, 28, “drove her dead daughter to Winnie Palmer Hospital where Orlando Police Department officers were able to detain her,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said on March 10.
Rivera was being held on a first-degree charge.
In the booking picture shared by the sheriff, she appears to be in a straitjacket.
#Update:Security advised a white female drove up to the valet area was argumentative and asking for medical assistance for a female passenger. Hospital staff determined she was deceased. The drive became combative and produced a knife.#WFTV
— Jeff Levkulich (@jlevkulichWFTV) March 10, 2019
After arriving at the hospital with her daughter, Aleyda, Rivera became “argumentative” with hospital staff, police spokesman Lt. Diego Toruno told the Orlando Sentinel. She “became combative and produced a knife.”
Hospital security and police officers then detained her.
Little information was released about the case and it’s not clear what motivated Rivera to stab her daughter.
When Rivera was being escorted out of the sheriff’s office on Sunday evening, reported WFTV, she told deputies: “I thought I was going to jail.”
A video clip showed her being placed into a patrol car to be taken to jail.
NEW: “I thought I was going to jail.” Rosa Rivera, mother of an 11-year-old found dead with stab wounds in the back of her car at Winnie Palmer earlier today, was just taken away from the @OrangeCoSheriff in a cruiser. Working to confirm if she is headed to jail for processing. pic.twitter.com/E9q5VdT4mq
— Deanna Allbrittin (@deannaTVnews) March 10, 2019
Illegal Immigrant Mother Charged After Son Killed
A 31-year-old Utah mother was arrested and charged with the murder of her 6-year-old son, who was found unresponsive in the family’s home on Feb. 25.
The child was rushed to the hospital but died two days later.
Detectives probing the case found enough evidence to lead to the arrest and charging of Reyna Elizabeth Flores-Rosales.
Court documents obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune stated the boy died because of a blow to the side of his head that caused his brain to bleed and swell. The swelling displaced his brain and killed him.
Doctors also found a slew of other injuries, including burns on the boy’s buttocks, scars, and bruises.
He had “several old scars, numerous additional burns on the extremities, bruises and swelling on the forehead and head, linear scars in a horizontal pattern on his neck, open sores and bleeding from (the boy’s) nostrils, and scars and open sores on his hands and feet,” according to charging documents, reported KSL-TV.
“There is not an accidental explanation for all of the above injuries,” a doctor told police, according to the Tribune.
“A CT scan was performed and significant head trauma was revealed,” the Sandy Police Department said in a statement. Doctors at Primary Children’s confirmed that the injuries to the head “were caused by a person in one single event,” and ruled out an accident as a possible cause. “They compared the damage and the bleeding on the brain to what is seen in shaken baby syndrome.”
The case shook responding officers and medics.
“These are the cases that every officer dreads—that every paramedic and firefighter dreads,” Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen told KSL. “Unfortunately, we see them. It takes time for the paramedics, the officers, and the firefighters to deal with these types of things.”
Flores-Rosales was previously investigated for suspected child abuse. She was also convicted in 2015 of felony drug distribution, resulting in probation.
According to a former neighbor of the family, screams, and yells could regularly be heard coming from the home. He told police that he moved away from the neighborhood because he was sick of the noises, reported Fox 13.
Flores-Rosales was arrested on Feb. 26 and was charged with murder on March 7. She’s also facing aggravated sexual abuse of a child and child abuse.
