A New Mexico mother did nothing to stop her boyfriend and his cousin from raping and dismembering her daughter, even as the 10-year-old girl begged for them to stop, police say.
Michelle Martens admitted that she sat back and watched her daughter, Victoria, be killed by her boyfriend Fabian Gonzales and his cousin, Jessica Kelley, in August. She then allegedly had sex with Gonzales 20 minutes later.
The claims emerged across three interviews with police during which Martens told a series of conflicting accounts, KRQE reported.
Interview transcripts obtained by the station go on for more than 100 pages before Martens, 35, admits that she sat back and watched as her daughter was assaulted and killed at around 5pm on August 23, the day after her 10th birthday.
She initially claimed that she and Gonzales, 31, had been attacked by Kelley, a convicted rapist, in the night, and had no idea what had happened to Victoria.
‘Jessica comes into our bedroom and asks me if I believe in God,’ she said. ‘She kept hitting me, hitting me, hitting me, punching.’
As she fled the scene, Martens claimed, Kelley shouted ‘You daughter’s dead!’
Forensic reports said the girl had been dosed with meth, raped, strangled, stabbed and dismembered.
But during the course of the interviews, that story changed: She then told cops that she and Gonzales had left Victoria alone with Kelley, and that the girl had died after taking some meth that she found.
Martens said Gonzales and Kelley disposed of Victoria’s body – which was found dismembered and wrapped in a burning blanket – and that they threatened to kill her if she told on them.
Police, doubting her tale, tricked her into believing that Gonzales was giving up the truth in another room.
Ultimately, she admitted the truth: That she had sat back and watched Gonzales and Kelley rape and murder her daughter, even though the girl begged for mercy, KTLA reported.
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