A 32-year-old woman named Liliana Carrillo, who allegedly confessed to drowning her three young children in a Reseda apartment, was ordered by Judge Robert C. Vanderet to stand trial on murder charges. The defense’s motion to dismiss the case against her was rejected. Carrillo is accused of killing her 5-month-old daughter Sierra, 2-year-old son Terry, and 3-year-old daughter Joanna on April 10, 2021. The murder charge involving the youngest daughter includes the use of a knife.
An autopsy conducted by a deputy medical examiner revealed that all three children were drowned. Sierra also had a stab wound in her chest, which caused damage to her left lung. In an interview from jail following her arrest, Carrillo told a reporter that she drowned her children because she feared they would be abused and sexually assaulted by others. She stated, “I drowned them. I wasn’t about to hand my children off to be further abused.”
When asked if she regretted her actions, Carrillo expressed her wish for her children to be alive but emphasized that she did not want them to be tortured and abused for the rest of their lives. She hugged and kissed her children and apologized to them. The grandmother discovered the bodies of the children.
Detective Kim Lormans of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Juvenile Division testified during the hearing that the children were found dead, lined up on the bed in the one-bedroom apartment. There was blood everywhere, as Carrillo had mentioned in her TV interview. Carrillo also revealed during the interview that she had attempted suicide but was unsuccessful. She acknowledged that she would be in jail for the rest of her life and had made peace with it.
Carrillo stated that she shared joint custody of the children with their father, Eric Denton. However, she claimed that Denton threatened to have her locked up in a mental ward, preventing her from seeing her kids again. Carrillo was apprehended in April 2021 in the Ponderosa area of Tulare County and has been in custody since then. Her arraignment is scheduled for September 7 at the downtown Los Angeles courthouse.
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