Liliana Carrillo told KGET-TV in an exclusive interview that she wanted to “protect” her children from what would been a life of sexual abuse
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A California woman admitted to killing her three children and said she hugged, kissed and apologized while drowning her young daughter and the girl’s 2 and 3-year-old siblings last weekend, to save them from what she said would be a life of sexual abuse.
Liliana Carrillo granted an interview in prison, and told KGET-TV that she wanted to “protect” her children – Joanna Denton Carrillo 3-year-old, 2-year-old brother, Terry, and 6-month-old sister Sierra – from their father in the middle of a bitter custody battle.
() himself Carrillo spoke with KGET-TV’s Eytan Wallace and admitted that he killed all three of their children. . She believed her husband was involved in human trafficking. He also commented on how he met the children’s father, Erik Denton.
The father of children, Erik Denton, has denied Carrillo’s allegations and wrote in court papers seeking custody that she is deceiving herself and that it is not safe for her children to be around her. Carrillo has not yet been charged with the deaths of the children in Los Angeles and the investigation continues.
“I drowned them,” he said in Thursday’s interview inside a Kern County jail.
“I did it just as gently, I don’t know how to explain it, but I hugged and kissed them and apologized all the time,” he said. “I loved my children.”
Carrillo’s children were found dead Saturday by their maternal grandmother in her apartment in Los Angeles. Carrillo was arrested later that day in Tulare County, almost 200 miles (322 kilometers) north.
“ I know I will be in jail for the rest of my life. It’s something that I have come to terms with, “he said in the television interview.
Carrillo told the television station that he had attempted suicide, but his car was stuck in a ditch and had to steal someone else’s vehicle. She has pleaded not guilty to charges related to car theft during his arraignment Wednesday in Kern County.
The children’s deaths were preceded by a hostile custody battle.
Denton wrote in court documents that Carrillo had become increasingly delusional and she refused to tell him where the children were.
Carrillo, to her Once, he filed a restraining order against him and said Denton was an alcoholic who may have sexually abused his oldest son.
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