A mom and father have been convicted of decapitating two of their youngsters after which making their two youthful sons view their siblings’ headless our bodies.
Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell have been discovered responsible Tuesday of murdering their daughter, Maliaka, 13, and son Maurice Jr., 12, within the household’s dwelling in Lancaster, California, in November 2020.
After the savage killings, they made their two youthful sons, ages 8 and 9, take a look at their older siblings’ our bodies earlier than locking them of their bedrooms with out meals or water “for a number of days,” in keeping with the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
“This was a monstrous act of cruelty that shattered a complete household,” District Lawyer Nathan J. Hochman mentioned in an announcement Tuesday.
“Two harmless youngsters have been brutally murdered, and their younger brothers have been left to reside by unimaginable horror.”
The kids’s our bodies and the surviving brothers have been solely discovered after firefighters responded to a gasoline leak on the home on Dec. 3, the Los Angeles Instances reported on the time.
The mother and father have been discovered responsible of two felony counts of first-degree homicide with particular circumstances and two felony counts of kid abuse.
They’re scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 13.
