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Woman
kills daughter to save her from being sex slave
Tuesday November 09, 2010 04:19:00 PM,
IANS
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London:
US woman,
accused of murdering her four-year-old daughter, told police that
she killed the child to save her from being sold as a sex slave on
the internet, it was reported here Tuesday.
Marci Webber, a mother of three, drugged her daughter Magdalene
with sleeping pills before butchering with such ferocity that she
almost severed her head, the Daily Mail reported.
She then wrote the words "divine mercy" in her daughter's blood on
a bathroom wall.
Webber, 43, gave a bizarre explanation for the murder, prosecutors
in Chicago said.
Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Lindt said Webber had wanted to
stop her daughter from being raped and exploited on the internet.
"She said she wanted to keep her daughter from being an internet
sex slave," Lindt said.
Webber, who has two other daughters aged 10 and 18, was visiting
her mother in Chicago from her home in Long Island, New York.
Webber was found at the murder scene with self-inflicted injuries
on her throat and wrist, the report said.
She is being held on $5 million bond after making an initial court
appearance before DuPage County Judge Richard Russo by video link
from prison.
Court records show that Webber has been involved in a custody
dispute with the four-year-old girl's father. In 2001, she founded
a group called Reform Our Courts 4 Kids to focus on child custody
issues.
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