The Texas mother accused of slitting her daughter's neck and strangling her has 'some dark demons haunting her,' her attorney said after court on Tuesday.
Photos show Melissa White Towne and her daughter, Nichole. Towne is accused of stabbing and strangling the 5-year-old girl on Oct. 16, 2022.
Towne then went on to cover the girl’s head with a trash bag after she began resisting and strangled Nichole for 30 to 45 minutes – even while the child screamed,"I've been good," prosecutors and investigators said. A police affidavit obtained by The Associated Press described how Towne "stated she wanted to end life because she was an evil child and did not want to deal with her anymore."
But after Tuesday’s court hearing, court-appointed attorney James Stafford said Towne had been admitted to a mental institution at least nine times, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, The Associated Press reported. Melissa White Towne is accused of stabbing and strangling her 5-year-old daughter, Nichole, on Oct. 16, 2022.On Monday, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez revealed that Towne drove to a local hospital’s emergency room, where staff discovered her daughter inside the Jeep SUV"partially wrapped in plastic and mesh bags."
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