Mother may have drugged and murdered 12-year-old daughter over inheritance, say police
Saturday, September 28, 2013 @ 8:39 PM
THE parents of a 12-year-old girl found dead in a forest near the village of Teo (A Coruña province) have been arrested and their lawyers have refused to act in their defence.
Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto was initially thought to have been murdered for being the sole benefactor of her very wealthy grandparents' estate, but inquiries have found that her mother was in fact the only benefactor when her parents died last year.
And her after-school music teachers have admitted to the court that the child had once appeared 'drugged up' in class.
Asunta is said to have told the teachers her parents were 'making her take pills' and that she was frightened they were trying to kill her.
She showed signs of 'sedation' or 'inebriation', the witnesses claim.
But they were 'not surprised' at the time, because they knew she was taking medication for her asthma and did not report the matter to the police until they heard her mother had been arrested.
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