A California mother has been arrested for the alleged murder of her nine-year-old daughter, who was found dead in her Orange County home on Friday.
Khadiyjah Aliyyah Ali Pendergraph, 32, was arrested at a shopping center in the city of Aliso Viejo in connection with her son’s death and booked into the Orange County Jail.
Westminster police responded shortly after noon Friday to the 14100 block of Goldenwest St. in Westminster to conduct a welfare check following a call from a concerned family member, according to Fox 11.
Officers forced entry into the home and discovered the girl’s body with signs of trauma, police said.
Pendergraph, who was not home when officers found the body, was located and arrested at the Aliso Viejo shopping center.
“While police officers are exposed to tragedies on a daily basis, this murder is particularly disturbing, given the senseless loss of a young girl allegedly at the hands of her own mother,” said Westminster Police Chief Darin Lenyi.
The case remains under investigation.
A mother was arrested for the alleged murder of her nine-year-old daughter.Getty Images
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