A girl has been charged with murdering her 11-year-old son by slitting his throat in a motel room following a three-day Disneyland trip.
Saritha Ramaraju, 48, had taken her son, Yatin Ramaraju, on the journey as a part of a custody go to.
On the morning of March 19, the day she was scheduled to return her son to his father, Ramaraju known as 911 at roughly 9:12 a.m. to report that she had killed him and tried to take her personal life by ingesting an unknown substance.
When police arrived on the La Quinta Inn in Santa Ana, they discovered the boy lifeless in a mattress, his throat slit, surrounded by Disneyland souvenirs.
Proof advised he had been killed a number of hours earlier than she known as 911.
A kitchen knife, which authorities imagine was used within the homicide, was discovered within the room and had been bought by Ramaraju yesterday.
After being hospitalized for the tried suicide, Ramaraju was launched on March 20 and subsequently arrested for her son’s homicide.
Ramaraju and her ex-husband, Prakash Raju, have been in an ongoing custody battle. The couple divorced in 2018, with Prakash being granted main custody of Yatin, and Saritha receiving visitation rights.
Ramaraju has been charged with one felony rely of homicide and one felony enhancement for the private use of a knife. If convicted on all prices, she faces a most sentence of 26 years to life in jail, based on the Orange County District Lawyer’s workplace.
Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer issued an announcement, saying, “The life of a kid shouldn’t cling within the steadiness between two dad and mom whose anger for one another outweighs their love for his or her little one. The most secure place for a kid needs to be of their dad and mom’ arms.”
