LA mom pleads not guilty to killing 2 daughters by slashing their throats
By Greg Risling, APThursday, September 17, 2009
LA woman pleads not guilty to killing 2 daughters
LOS ANGELES — A woman has pleaded not guilty to killing her two daughters by slashing their throats in their Los Angeles house.
Antonia Gomez entered her plea Thursday to two counts of murder and is eligible for the death penalty if convicted. She’s being held without bail.
Prosecutors say Gomez stabbed her daughters, ages 11 and 17, on Sept. 2 before cutting her own arms.
The case is one of several this month in Southern California in which six children were stabbed, four of them fatally.
Similar attacks occurred Wednesday when a 5-year-old and 3-year-old were allegedly wounded by their mother in Orange County. Authorities also found a 12-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister stabbed to death the same day in Ventura County in what could be a murder-suicide by the father.
