{"id":7058,"date":"2025-04-16T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7058"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:42:46","slug":"mom-charged-with-murder-for-allegedly-drowning-7-year-old-daughter-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7058","title":{"rendered":"Mom charged with murder for allegedly drowning 7-year-old daughter: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A California mom has been charged with murder for allegedly drowning her 7-year-old daughter, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Graciela Castellanos, 37, allegedly killed her daughter at an apartment in Van Nuys on April 11, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A neighbor told <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/van-nuys-child-death-fianc-says-graciela-castellanos-accused-drowning-daughter-struggles-mental-health\/16173271\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles ABC station KABC<\/a> that she heard the girl screaming, &#8220;Mommy, please no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">First responders pronounced the 7-year-old dead at the scene, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman called the allegations &#8220;profoundly tragic and deeply unsettling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Our sympathy goes out to the family and loved ones of this young girl, whose life was cut short far too soon,&#8221; Hochman said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Castellanos pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of murder and assault on a child under 8 years old causing death. She&#8217;s due to return to court on June 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California mom has been charged with murder for allegedly drowning her 7-year-old daughter, prosecutors said. Graciela Castellanos, 37, allegedly killed her daughter at an apartment in Van Nuys on April 11, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office. A neighbor told Los Angeles ABC station KABC that she heard the girl screaming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}