Mother 'sat back and watched' as daughter was drugged, raped and murdered

A mother has admitted she sat back and watched as her boyfriend and his cousin raped and murdered her 10-year-old daughter, according to police.

Michelle Martens was arrested along with her partner Fabian Gonzales and Jessica Kelley after officers found the body of Victoria Martens wrapped in a burning blanket in a bathtub at her home in Alberquerque, New Mexico.

The claims emerged in police interviews obtained by TV station KRQE with all three suspects charged with the murder.

Police say Michelle initially told two different stories making her out to be innocent, before she cracked after hours of interviewing.

Firstly she Claimed together with Gonzales had been attacked by convicted rapist Kelley during the night, and had no idea what had happened to daughter Victoria.

Gonzales & Michelle, Images source:Mirror

“Jessica comes into our bedroom and asks me if I believe in God,” she said. “She kept hitting me, hitting me, hitting me, punching.”

She then changed her story, telling police she and Gonzales had gone out, leaving Victoria at home with Kelley.

Her daughter took methamphetamines, she said, and later died. Gonzales and Kelley then disposed of the body and threatened to kill her if she spoke out.

Later after being conviced that her boyfriend, Gonzales was in another interrogation room revealing everything, she admitted to watching the murder, saying she “let them do it”, according to KOB.
According to KRQE, a detective asked her: “This time she died and you weren’t ready for the type of animals these people were?”

Martens replied: “Yes, but I should have stopped it.”

Authorities concluded that Victoria has been injected with methamphetamines to calm her down before being raped, strangled and stabbed.

Victoria Martens, 10, was found dismembered and on fire in a bath at her home

Police were also told that Martens had previously watched a number of men sexually assault her daughter because she enjoyed it. She searched for them at work and on online dating sites.

She claimed Gonzales had raped her daughter every day for a month before the day of the murder.

On the day of incident, the couple even had sex together 20 minutes after stabbing daughter Victoria

According to Michelle the whole incident happened on the afternoon of 23 August after her daughter had returned from school

All three “acted as if nothing had happened”, even having dinner together that evening before police found the body the following day.

Source: Independent

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