Mom Accused Of Stabbing To Death Her 3 Kids Had Murrieta Ties

Murrieta CA

12 April, 2021

2:56 PM

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MURRIETA, CA — A woman who allegedly stabbed her three children to death in Los Angeles County has Murrieta ties. Liliana Carrillo, 30, was arrested Saturday in the Ponderosa area of Tulare County, east of Porterville, according to Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Los Angeles Police Department. The bodies of her three young children were found about 9:30 a.m. Saturday in an apartment in the 8000 block of Reseda Boulevard, according to Cervantes. The coroner Monday released the names of the two girls and one boy: Joanna Denton Carrillo was 3 years old; Terry Denton Carrillo was 2; and Sierra Denton Carrillo was 6 months, 23 days old. Autopsies were pending. Court records showed that the children lived in Murrieta with their father, Erik Denton, and Carrillo from September 2018 through March 2019, before moving to Porterville. The family lived in the San Joaquin Valley city until Feb. 25, after which Carrillo and the children moved to Reseda, according to a report from The Press-Enterprise. According to NBC4 and ABC7, which both cited police sources, the young victims were found by their grandmother and had been stabbed to death. The children's father was embroiled in a custody dispute with Carrillo and had made attempts to get the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to intervene due to her erratic behavior, according to multiple media reports Sunday. A GoFundMe page set up to help the family included a photograph of Denton with the three kids. The page had raised $29,602 as of late Monday morning. Denton, who lived in Tulare County, sought custody of the children on March 1 in Tulare County family court and petitioned for a mental health evaluation of Carrillo, the Los Angeles Times reported. For her part, Carrillo sought a temporary domestic violence restraining order against Denton on March 12 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the newspaper reported. That order was granted, but was due to expire at a hearing on April 6, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. Denton told the paper that he tried to get local authorities to intervene, but "the LAPD would not get involved." He added that Carrillo was supposed to surrender the kids to him on Sunday.Neighbors were shocked at the crime. "My heart is broken," Dayna Campbell, a resident in the Reseda neighborhood, told NBC4. "Every time I see news about children like this, my heart breaks in pieces. And now, it's like right in front of my building. It's unbelievable." Another neighbor, Mishal Hashimi, told NBC4: "Leave the house, leave the children, leave your family or whatever, but don't harm children."