By City News Service
Apr 16, 2021
“I drowned them, Lilliana Carrillo said in a jailhouse interview Thursday with Bakersfield TV station KGET.
Carrillo said she killed the children, ages 3, 2 and 6 months, to protect them from their father, who she claimed was involved in human trafficking.
She said she wished her children were still alive, then added “I prefer them not being tortured and abused on a regular basis for the rest of their lives.
Carrillo said she hugged and kissed her children, whom she identified as Joanna Maria, 3; Terry Joseph, 2; and Sierra Sequoia, 5 months, and was apologizing “the whole time.
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The agency charged with protecting children from abusive homes in Los Angeles County has declined to comment on a case Wednesday in which a mother allegedly brutally stabbed to death her three children.
In a statement to Fox News, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child protective services agency in the nation, said state law prohibits it from commenting on whether a child or family has been involved with the department.
Liliana Carrillo, 30, has been identified by the Los Angeles Police Department as the sole suspect in the stabbing deaths of her three children Joanna, 3, Terry, 2, and six-month-old Sierra on Saturday. The childrens grandmother discovered the bodies when she returned to a home in Los Angeles Reseda neighborhood.
California child protective agency declines to answer questions about mom accused of killing her 3 kids
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RESEDA, Calif. - The agency charged with protecting children from abusive homes in Los Angeles County has declined to comment on a case Wednesday in which a mother allegedly brutally stabbed to death her three children.
In a statement to Fox News, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child protective services agency in the nation, said state law prohibits it from commenting on whether a child or family has been involved with the department.
Liliana Carrillo, 30, has been identified by the Los Angeles Police Department as the sole suspect in the stabbing deaths of her three children Joanna, 3, Terry, 2, and six-month-old Sierra on Saturday. The childrens grandmother discovered the bodies when she returned to a home in Los Angeles Reseda neighborhood.
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Question of the Day Photos, candles, flowers and balloons are placed as a memorial for three children who were killed at the Royal Villa apartments complex in the Reseda section of Los Angeles, on Monday, April 12, 2021. Authorities have identified 3-year-old Joanna Denton . more > By STEFANIE DAZIO - Associated Press - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Erik Denton was supposed to see his three young children last Sunday, the one day every other week that he was allowed to be with them.
Three-year-old Joanna, her 2-year-old brother, Terry, and 6-month-old sister, Sierra, had been staying with their mother - Denton’s ex-girlfriend - in Los Angeles. Fearful for their safety, their father had petitioned the court for custody March 1, alleging their mother, Liliana Carrillo, was delusiona