A
Southern California woman who slit the throats of her three children
and left their bodies on her bed was convicted on Monday of first-degree
murder.
Carol
Ann Coronado, 32, was found guilty of three murder counts with special
circumstances by a Superior Court judge, acting without a jury.
Coronado was acquitted of the charge that she attempted to murder her mother during the ordeal.
Prosecutors
declined to seek the death penalty for the May 20, 2014 killings during
which Coronado cut the throats of her 2-month-old daughter, Xenia, her
16-month-old daughter, Yazmine, and her 2-year-old daughter, Sophia,
with a butcher knife, and afterwards stabbing them in the heart.
On
the day of the killings, prosecutors said, Coronado had planned to take
out her whole family, including her husband, Rudy Coronado, according
to the Daily Breeze of Torrance.
The
murderous streak was interrupted by Coronado's mother, Julie Piercey,
who arrived at the family home in a Los Angeles suburb in the afternoon
and found the trio of dead girls arranged on a bed, and several more
knives lined up in the kitchen.
When
Piercey discovered the macabre scene, she snatched a knife from her
daughter's hand and ran across the street to where Rudy Coronado was
working.
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