Results tagged “bathtub”

The mother accused of murdering her 11-year-old daughter says the child died from a fall in the bathroom. Anthony Baratta, lawyer for Florencia Vazquez claims that his client's daughter Alejandra had been standing on the bathroom tub edge to hang a shower curtain when she fell on October 20. Baratta says Vazquez checked on the girl repeatedly throughout the week, even calling a doctor at one point, and called 911 this past Sunday when she began foaming at the mouth. However, prosecutors say that Vazquez confessed to fatally beating Alejandra on October 23 (after hours of police questioning) and leaving her body for days. Earlier reports said that 911 was called only when a man came to rent a room this past Sunday and saw the girl's body. The ME's office said that Alejandra had injuries all over body, calling her a victim of child abuse.

First iron gates, now bathtubs--scrap iron must be very valuable. Two men were caught stealing a designer bathtub from a Merrick, Long Island home under renovation. The tub, a Kohler cast-iron style weighing 300 pounds, was being taken out the front door by the robbers when police spotted them.

The ex-girlfriend of a 49-year-old Bronx woman is suspected of murdering her former lesbian companion after the victim was found stabbed to death in her bathtub. Cecelia Rodriguez had recently been kicked out of the pair's Bronx apartment after the breakup, but reportedly was distraught when she heard the news of Olga Rodriguez's death. The landlord who discovered Rodriguez's body was skeptical of the histrionics. "She was acting-crying. The crying was not real. "[The victim] was always complaining about her."