The child's 35-year-old mother is being questioned by police.
A mother is alleged to have stabbed her daughter to death at a Texas park, according to police.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office said a mother claimed to have killed her child at Spring Creek Park in Tomball on Sunday. According to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, preliminary information suggested the child—possibly 5 or 6 years old—wasStock image of a police car. Police said the child was stabbed to death in a Texas park.An April Texas State Child Fatality Review Team Committee report found there were 2,851 child deaths due to"external causes, including accidental deaths, homicides and suicides" between 2017 and 2019.
The report noted that of those, 527 children aged 0 to 17 in Texas had"homicide" noted down on their death certificates. At a media briefing on Sunday, Sgt. Ben Beall said:"She notified hospital personnel that she had killed her daughter and that her daughter was in her gray"The nurses came out, checked on her, and had a doctor come out. They pronounced the child dead at 12:10 p.m.Department originally responded to the scene. The mother said the incident occurred at Spring Creek Park, off of Brown Road.
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