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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Woman Who Killed Grandchild Says She Felt Unloved


FAIRFAX, Va. - A grandmother who threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-floor walkway at Virginia's largest shopping mall told detectives in a taped confession that she felt unloved by her family and jealous of the attention her granddaughter received.

More than anything, Carmela dela Rosa told detectives, she was angry at her son-in-law James Ogdoc for taking her daughter away from her and saw killing the infant as a way to get back at him, according to the confession. The tape was played to jurors Tuesday at the woman's murder trial.

"I just saw James through her, through the baby," dela Rosa said in the hour-long videotaped confession to a Fairfax police detective. "I thought about James and I threw her."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm speechless.

Anonymous said...

Being politically correct and in denial of this woman's clear mental illness resulted in a failure to have her locked up and to have the access to kill this infant. Been there, lived with it, found out there was nothing I could do about it, and divorced it. And Society ignores...