South Richmond Hill homicide: Mother charged in 5-year-old's murder | What we know

Okay, Jessica, we got an update on this horrific, which is now a horrific crime at this point. What are we hearing? So it has been ruled a homicide, and overnight we have learned that the mother of this child has been arrested and charged with murder. This is her right here? This is her right here, five-year-old Fabiana Cabello. Look at her right there. Her grandfather shared these photos with us. Her mother, 32-year-old Frances Cabello, was arrested and charged with murder. this is just a horrific, tragic crime that took place on Wednesday night. We are told that the mother actually confessed to the murder. She was the one that placed that 911 call. And sources are telling us that when she called the operator, she told the operator that she killed her five-year-old daughter. And so we got this story yesterday. The reports that we had were that there was a child who died inside the home. at that point they were still looking into the possibility that there was some criminality involved and now this accusation comes and then we have this other piece of video this surveillance video here this is from a nearby home which actually shows the police response that evening that Wednesday evening around seven o'clock police and there you're seeing police holding the child getting her into the NYPD vehicle rushing her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead and there appears to be the mom possibly the mom because you can see that the NYPD is putting someone in cuffs there they have not confirmed if that is where the arrest was made and if that's her but it appears to be a woman as you can see placed in handcuffs there and we spoke to the grandfather we spoke to the grandfather what did he say about this whole situation so he gave us some insight of what was happening inside that home so they all lived in that home together the grandma the grandfather the child and the mother he told us that his daughter was suffering from mental illness that she three months ago was hospitalized for about a month but after being released from the hospital she was off her medication so he was at the home at the time of this alleged killing he says he was in his bedroom didn't hear anything until police showed up to the house so we also heard from the uncle last night uh he talks about Fabiana just how happy she was okay and how the family's in disbelief it's very shocking and sad you know can you describe her for us she's a very beautiful girl you know she's joyful she keep my my mom and dad happy all day you know they're old and she she's very she gives you a nice hug you know she was very happy girl. We are heartbroken. Everybody's heartbroken, you know? I thought we learned about it last night when it came. I mean, in a sense, there's no other way to put it, heartbroken. So we have this mother who's been arrested, this child who's died, a family that's broken. Do we know what happens next for the mother? So we are now waiting for the district attorney's office, the Queen's DA's office. We actually reached out to them this morning asking where the mother is, right? Because we don't know now if she is in police custody at police precinct or call police they they couldn't verify or if she's at the hospital remember she was admitted before for a month sure so hoping to hear more from the DA's office at some point obviously there's going to be a criminal complaint at some point as well probably learn more details because what happened in that house right that evening we don't know we know that when the police arrived the child was unconscious unresponsive bleeding from the mouth and the nose so the medical examiner will determine the cause of death. And we're waiting for that as well. All right, Jessica, thank you very much.