A Texas mom has been sentenced to life without parole for stabbing and beheading her 5-year-old daughter, according to the Hays County District Attorney’s Office.
27-year-old Krystle Villanueva was arrested on Jan. 5, 2017, after Hays County deputies were called to her home at Kyle, Texas, and discovered she had stabbed and beheaded her 5-year-old daughter.
Hays County Sheriff Gary Cutler said: “I’ve been in this line of work for over 43 years — 11 years as a homicide detective,
“This is one of the worst cases I’ve ever seen and been a part of.”
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According to the District Attorney’s Office, Villanueva’s father-in-law called 911 on Jan. 5, 2017, to report that she stabbed him in the back without warning.
The father-in-law fled and crisis negotiators came to the Kyle, Texas, home when police learned the woman’s 5-year-old daughter was still with her inside.
The woman also called 911 and said she killed her daughter, Giovanna Hernandez, because “she asked for cereal,” Mau said in a statement.
The SWAT team broke into the home and restrained Villanueva, who was naked, according to the district attorney.