A New Jersey lady allegedly confessed to stabbing her child brother within the chest — and claimed voices informed her to do it.
Detectives investigating what occurred in the course of the Nov. 1 assault in Brick Township spoke to Marlene Rodriguez’s cousin, who alleged the 20-year-old introduced up the subject of human sacrifice, asking the cousin in the event that they’d ever sacrificed anybody.
Quickly after, in the identical home, the boy’s mother says she may hear him crying, went to his room, and located him with stab wounds and a knife on the ground subsequent to him.
The two-year-old survived.
He stays in secure situation at Jersey Shore College Medical Heart in Neptune. He’s recovering from a punctured lung and a reduce to the wall of his coronary heart, court docket paperwork declare.
A possible trigger affidavit obtained by The Put up claims cops arrived at a house on Burke Avenue at roughly 2:30 p.m. and located the wounded boy, who was nonetheless alert and acutely aware.
After being learn her rights twice, Rodriguez informed police she stabbed her brother, in accordance with the affidavit.
Again on the police station, Rodriguez allegedly informed cops she remembered doing it. She additionally claimed to listen to multiples voices and should have been experiencing hallucinations.
She additionally replied to a query in Spanish, “to the impact of a 3rd individual telling her to cease speaking so she doesn’t go to jail.”
Investigators stopped questioning Rodriguez at the moment.
