A Texas woman accused of stabbing and beheading her 5-year-old daughter in has been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. The girl was killed at their home in Kyle, located about 20 miles 32 kilometers southwest of Austin. Jurors also found Villanueva guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of the girl's grandfather, who survived. Villanueva was arrested after police were called to the home she shared with Giovanna, the girl's father and his parents.
Prosecutors said Villaneuva told a operator that she killed her daughter because "she asked for cereal" and then stabbed her father-in-law. Her defense attorney had argued that she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Garcia said that Villaneuva suffered from psychosis for many years. He said that the day of the attack that she believed that her family had been taken over by clones. The Austin American-Statesman reports that investigators had previously only told the media that the child's body had been "mutilated. Skip to content. Krystle Villanueva. Texas News News from around the state of Texas.
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