The devastated mom of an 11-year-old Texas girl whose body was left under her dad’s bed after she was raped has spoken out in regards to the surprising crime – saying, “I don’t need to cry anymore … I would like justice.”
Ana Elizabeth Xitumul Saput railed in opposition to the one that carried out the unspeakable crime in opposition to Maria, who had been dwelling alone in Pasadena Saturday when she alerted her dad at work that somebody was on the door.
“I don’t need to cry anymore, as a result of I’ve a nasty coronary heart,” the grieving mother told Telemundo 47 from Guatemala, the place she nonetheless lives with Maria’s youthful sister.
“I would like justice. I would like her killer to show himself in and I’m asking God that kind-hearted folks assist us deliver our daughter’s stays again to Guatemala,” Saput mentioned, including that she simply needs to see her daughter one ultimate time.
“This individual has no emotions. Don’t you have got sisters, a mom?” she requested of the still-at-large killer.
Saput mentioned she and her youngest daughter had stayed behind in Guatemala due to her coronary heart points.
No suspects have been recognized and Crime Stoppers is providing a $5,000 reward for data that results in an arrest.
Maria’s dad Carmelo Gonzalez, 32, mentioned he had lately arrived at work when Maria texted him at 10 a.m. Saturday {that a} stranger knocked at their door.
“I advised her, ‘Don’t open the door as a result of I’m arriving at work,’ and she or he responded, ‘I’m in my mattress,’” the grieving dad mentioned of the “good, quiet woman” who had solely lately turned 11.
Maria’s aunt and uncle couldn’t discover the woman once they checked the premises, however when the dad returned dwelling 5 hours later, he found her lifeless physique in a laundry basket underneath his mattress.
“They left her underneath the mattress in a plastic bag. They left my poor daughter,” Gonzalez, who lived alone with Maria, beforehand advised Fox 26.
The woman had been raped, strangled and suffered blunt power trauma to the top, officers mentioned.
The house confirmed no indicators of pressured entry, and the door was closed however unlocked when the aunt and uncle first checked the scene, Pasadena Police Chief Josh Bruegger advised reporters.
Bruegger mentioned that “at this level, the daddy’s alibi checks out, so he’s — at this level, at the least — not a suspect.”
The chief added that the killer probably knew that the little woman was dwelling alone on the time.
“It appears awfully suspicious that dad leaves for work and inside half-hour you’ve obtained anyone knocking on the door,” he mentioned.
