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Carol Ann Coronado, 30, was arrested on Tuesday evening after
police were called to the home by relatives who found her lying
on a bed covered in blood beside the bodies of the three girls,
according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Coronado, who also was charged with attempted murder of her own
mother, was taken to a hospital after her arrest to be treated
for self-inflicted stab wounds, the sheriff's office said.
Authorities have not said if Coronado's mother was actually
injured by her daughter and have revealed few other details
except to say that the three girls were killed with a knife, and
that they ranged in age from about 2 months to 3 years old.
The Los Angeles Times, citing accounts of relatives, has
reported that Coronado was found nude and bloody in bed next to
the neatly arranged bodies of her daughters - identified as
Sophia, aged, 2-1/2, Yazmine, 16 months and Xenia, 2 months.
Neighbors said the mother appeared dazed as she was escorted
from her home wrapped in a blanket, the Times said.
The girl's father, who was working on a pickup truck parked
across the street when another relative came running out of the
home screaming, "She killed the babies," was heard crying out in
anguish when he entered the dwelling to find girls, the Times
reported.
A spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office, Sarah
Ardalani, said the father was not a suspect.
Authorities have offered no possible motive for the slayings.
The Times quoted sheriff's Lieutenant Dave Coleman as saying
investigators were not aware of any previous incidents involving
the stay-at-home mother, who he said briefly served in the Army
more than a decade ago before a medical discharge.
Because she is charged with multiple counts of premeditated
murder, Coronado could face the death penalty if convicted,
Ardalani said.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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