A mom has been accused of brutally murdering her 11-year-old son during a family trip to Disneyland. Brace yourselves for the horrific details.
According to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney on Friday, 48-year-old Saritha Ramaraju was charged with one felony count of murder and one felony enhancement of personal use of a weapon, knife. The Santa Ana Police Department said on social media that she also was charged with child endangerment, torture, and aggravated mayhem upon her arrest.
The district attorney claimed Ramaraju was staying with her son at a La Quinta Inn in Santa Ana, California, and purchased three-day passes to Disneyland for them during a custody visit. But when the mother was supposed to check out of the hotel and return the child to his father on Wednesday, the news release claimed she spent the morning “slitting her 11-year-old son’s throat, killing the boy.”
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The Santa Ana Police Department said she then called 911 at approximately 9:12 a.m. and reported “she had stabbed and killed her son.” Per the DA, Ramaraju also allegedly told authorities she “had taken pills trying to kill herself.”
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, bodycam footage obtained by multiple outlets showed Ramaraju on the phone walking out of the hotel room As police put handcuffs around her, one of the officers is heard saying:
“She has blood on her hand.”
Awful. See the bodycam footage (below):
Inside the room, the district attorney said they found the young boy dead on the bed among Disneyland souvenirs. It appeared he had been dead for several hours by that point. Police also discovered a large kitchen knife, which the DA says Ramaraju purchased the day before.
Ramaraju was taken to the hospital for evaluation before being released and arrested on Thursday. She now faces a maximum sentence of 26 years to life if convicted on all the charges against her. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement about the horrifying murder:
“The life of a child should not hang in the balance between two parents whose anger for each other outweighs their love for their child. Anger makes you forget who you love and what you are responsible for doing. The safest place for a child should be in their parents’ arms. Instead of wrapping her arms around their son in love, she slit his throat and in the cruelest twist of fate removed him from the very world she brought him into.”
This poor, poor boy…
Our hearts go out to his father. Hopefully, he gets justice for the murder of his son soon.
[Image via Santa Ana Police Department]
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