A woman allegedly murdered her 11-year-old son after a three-day vacation to Disneyland and then consumed pills to kill herself in New York, US. Saritha Ramaraju, an Indian-origin woman, allegedly killed her son by slitting his throat.
Ramaraju, 48, has been charged with one felony count of murder for slitting her son’s throat, killing the boy after they went on a vacation to Disneyland during a custody visit.
Ramaraju, who moved out of California after divorcing the boy’s father in 2018, was in the city for a custody visit. She along with her son were staying at a motel in Santa Ana. During the visit, she bought three-day passes to Disneyland for herself and her son.
After the visit, they were scheduled to check out of the motel on March 19 and return the boy to his father. However, she called 911 at 9.12 am to report that she had killed her son and taken pills to kill herself.
Santa Ana police arrived at the motel and found the young boy dead on the bed in a room among Disneyland souvenirs. It appeared the boy had been dead for several hours before his mother called 911, the statement said.
A large kitchen knife was found inside the motel room which was purchased the day before. Ramaraju was released from the hospital on Thursday after ingesting the unknown substance and arrested on suspicion of stabbing the boy to death.
“The life of a child should not hang in the balance between two parents whose anger for each other outweighs their love for their child,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said, as quoted by PTI.
“Anger makes you forget who you love and what you are responsible for doing. The safest place for a child should be in their parents’ arms. Instead of wrapping her arms around their son in love, she slit his throat and in the cruelest twist of fate removed him from the very world she brought him into,” Spitzer added.
