New York:
A woman from the Indian original is accused of killing her 11-year-old son after a three-day holiday to Disneyland.
Saritha Ramaraju, 48, is accused of one crime count of murder for cutting the throat of her son, killing the boy after they went on vacation to Disneyland during a custody. She is also accused of one crime improvement of personal use of a weapon, a knife.
She is confronted with a maximum punishment of 26 years to life if they are convicted of all charges, said a statement from the office of the public prosecutor, Orange County, California.
Ramaraju, who moved from California after divorcing the boy's father in 2018, stayed with her son in a motel in Santa Ana for a guardianship visit. During the visit she bought three -day passes to Disneyland for herself and her son.
On March 19, the day that Ramaraju was planned to look from the motel and bring the boy back to his father, she called 911 at 9:12 am to report that she had killed her son and had taken pills to kill herself.
The police of Santa Ana arrived at the motel and found the young boy dead on the bed in a room under Disneyland souvenirs. It seemed that the boy was dead for a few hours before his mother called 911, the statement said. The boy would be returned to his father that day.
A large kitchen knife was found in the Motelkamer that was purchased the day before. Ramaraju was released from the hospital on Thursday after taking the unknown substance and arrested on suspicion of the boy.
“The life of a child should not stay in the balance between two parents whose anger for each other is up against their love for their child,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.
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“Anger lets you forget who you love and what you are responsible for. Although the statement did not mention the boy, who was declared dead on the spot, a report in NBC Los Angeles identified him as Yatin Ramaraju.
The report added that Saritha Ramaraju had been in a custody fight with her husband Prakash Raju since last year, when she had accused him of taking medical and school decisions without her input and claimed that he had drug abuse.
Prakash Raju had said in judicial articles that he was born and raised in Bengaluru, India, said the NBC report, adding that the couple was separated in January 2018. Raju received the custody of the son and Saritha Ramaraju received according to judicial data.
The report, referring to judicial articles submitted in November, said that the mother lived in Fairfax, Virginia and wanted her son to live with her.
Ramaraju had accused her former husband of a “history of problems with substance abuse” and added that he “becomes very aggressive under the influence of alcohol, drugs and smoke.” She accused him of having “serious control problems” and said that their son is “very afraid of talking to mother because he gets into trouble with dad.” Raju had accused his ex-wife of “stating completely untrue and false abuse and drug abuse,” the report added.
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