A woman accused of stabbing a toddler to death wrote six chilling words on a wall in blood, police have revealed.
Marketta Phillips was babysitting for her on-again-off-again boyfriend’s little girl while he was at work, when the horror attack took place. Jeremy Ross arrived home in Las Vegas, USA, at around 3.30am and found the 41-year-old woman sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by knives and covered in blood. On the wall were the words: “Everybody who played me is cursed”.
The father then made the devastating discovery of his daughter Journei lying unconscious in her bedroom and tried to resuscitate her while he called the emergency services. Phillips told detectives she had ‘snapped’ and stabbed Journei ‘more than once’ to ‘get back at’ Ross, 8 News Now in the US reported.
The frantic dad called the ambulance and told he Ross call handle: “My baby isn’t breathing anymore. A crazy girl cut my baby up.” While on the call he turned to Phillips and said: “My child is f**king three years old, the f**k is you doing?, returning to the call he added: “My baby is not breathing. My baby just bled all over the f**king bed.”
The three-year-old girl’s mother Phalan Whitson, said she and the girl’s father shared custody of her and said the girl had been in her father’s care care since Monday when he picked her up. She told reporters her daughter had at least 10 stab wounds, to the torso, legs, and neck.
The alleged murderer left the apartment on foot while police were on their way to the home, they arrested her a few hours later. She was reportedly uncooperative and had to be tasered, according to 8 News Now. Police found several bloody knives and scissors in the apartment. She is being held without bail and made her first court appearance on Thursday.
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