Mother Arrested for Slitting Her Son’s Throat Before Stabbing Him

A woman has been arrested after allegedly killing her 11-year-old son in a Santa Ana, California, hotel—just a day after they visited Disneyland.

The suspect, identified as Saritha Ramaraju, was taken into custody after her son was found with fatal stab wounds at the La Quinta Inn and Suites on Wednesday.

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According to authorities, Ramaraju used a large kitchen knife to cut her son’s throat. She now faces charges of murder, along with an additional felony for using a deadly weapon.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer condemned the crime, stating: “The safest place for a child should be in their parents’ arms

“Instead of wrapping her arms around their son in love, she slit his throat. And in the cruelest twist of fate, removed him from the very world she brought him into

“The life of a child should not hang in the balance between two parents whose anger for each other outweighs their love for their child.”

“Anger makes you forget who you love and what you are responsible for doing.”

Prosecutors revealed that Ramaraju had moved out of California after her divorce in 2018. 

She was in town for a custody visit and had been staying at the hotel with her son. Before the tragic incident, she had purchased three-day Disneyland passes for the two of them.

It reads: “On Wednesday … the day Ramaraju was scheduled to check out of the motel and return the boy to his father, Ramaraju called 911 at 9:12 a.m. to report that she had killed her 11-year-old son and had taken pills trying to kill herself.

Although she called the police herself, by the time officers arrived, they found that the boy had already been dead for several hours.

The Santa Ana Police stated: “Officers responded to the scene and detained (Ramaraju) in the hotel hallway.”

“Inside a nearby hotel room, officers found an unresponsive 11-year-old boy with apparent stab wounds. Orange County Fire Authority personnel arrived on scene and pronounced the child deceased.”

Although Ramaraju was arrested on suspicion of murder and hospitalized due to the ingestion of an unknown substance, according to the police.