Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 | 6:45 p.m.
When the door of a bedroom at a south valley house was kicked in, a toddler’s body was spotted on a twin-size bed. The boy’s mother, who was critically injured, lay beside him.
The three knives on the bed, along with razors found in the room, were soaked in blood, according to Metro Police.
And when the injured woman was asked what happened, she said she was “sorry” and that she did it because “it was her child and she could,” according to her arrest report. She left a purported suicide note, police said. She survived.
At about 7:50 a.m. Monday, officers were summoned to a house in the 8600 block of Manalang Way, near Pebble Road and Pollock Drive, police said.
The 2-year-old boy was dead, but Cristina Guadalupe Moya, 21, was rushed to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with serious injuries, police said. She subsequently was booked in absentia on a count of murder.
The child’s parents had recently broken up, police said. The father last saw his son alive the previous night when he dropped him off at Moya’s house after a visitation, police said.
From then on, the woman’s family did not see Moya or her usually active toddler in the home they shared, and they grew worried, police said. When they were having dinner, they noticed that kitchen knives had gone missing.
Moya would not open the locked door but was eventually reached by text message, telling a family member that she “couldn’t talk because she wasn’t feeling well,” noting that her phone was almost out of battery, police said.
Police were summoned for a welfare check, and minutes later — before they arrived — 911 was contacted a second time, according to the report. A family member had kicked in the second-floor door and made the grim discovery.
Detectives learned from Moya’s ex that she’d “always” suffered from depression “and most recently felt her medication was not working.”
