11-year-old beaten to death with mop handle

**Unamused Cat** · October 26th, 2008, 10:49 PM

A Brooklyn girl was found dead Sunday, three days after suffering a brutal mop handle beating from her mother, police said.

Alejandra Vazquez, 11, was found by her mother's boyfriend yesterday morning, said New York Police Department Deputy Chief Michael Collins. The girl's mother, whom police did not immediately identify, was arrested and expected to be charged with homicide, police said.

During an interview with police, the girl's mother told investigators she "despises" her daughter and chased her around the family's East New York home on Thursday, striking her with the mop handle. The girl, who tried to escape the beating by hiding beneath a baby crib, then lay in bed for three days, vomiting and unable to eat.

"She despises the child for something that happened with the father in Mexico," where he lives, a police source said yesterday. When police arrived at the home, they found Alejandra covered with bruises and scabbed-over cuts, police said.

The mother did not call for help until after the girl's death, police said. Alejandra immigrated to Brooklyn only last month, though police do not know why she came.

In January, Alejandra's 14-year-old sister was removed from her mother's care and placed in a foster home, police said. The older sister had also complained of beatings from her mother. She didn't learn her younger sister had arrived from Mexico until after the child's death, police said.

Alejandra lived in the Atlantic Avenue home with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, three younger half-siblings aged 6, 3 and 1, and a livery cabdriver who boarded there, Collins said. None of the younger children were injured, police said.

Police said detectives found the mop handle the mother used to beat her daughter taped back together so it could again be used as a mop.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/cr...,6120186.story

Mother not identified at this time.

**Ruby** · October 26th, 2008, 11:02 PM

OMG. The sick, fucking bitch. She admits to hating her and admits to beating her and then allowing her to lay in bed vomiting and dying for 3 days?? Why was this girl sent to live with her when her sister had already been taken from the home? Why did the mother even take her in if she hated her so? OMG, I feel like I'm going to vomit. 11 years old. 11 years old?! That is so fucked up.

I'm going to bed. Ugh. May she rot. And may someone please take care of the little ones she'll leave behind? They'll need a lot of love and devotion to get them through.

**Peeperann** · October 26th, 2008, 11:02 PM

She despised her own child for some the child supposedly did while in another country? What the hell could a little girl do that was so bad?

I can't wrap my brains around things like this.

Poor little girl, rest in peace, God has you now and all you will feel is love and joy

**Sister Iroz** · October 26th, 2008, 11:26 PM

Alejandra Vazquez, 11, was found by her mother's boyfriend yesterday morning, said New York Police Department Deputy Chief Michael Collins. The girl's mother, whom police did not immediately identify, was arrested and expected to be charged with homicide, police said.

Now there is a switch, did the boyfriend call the police? If so good for him!

During an interview with police, the girl's mother told investigators she "despises" her daughter and chased her around the family's East New York home on Thursday, striking her with the mop handle. The girl, who tried to escape the beating by hiding beneath a baby crib, then lay in bed for three days, vomiting and unable to eat.

OMG this fucking bitch why didn't they take this young girl into foster care with her sister why would you leave one child behind to get abused. This poor girl laying in bed sick, dying and not having anyone who cares enough to get her too a hospital.

Alejandra lived in the Atlantic Avenue home with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, three younger half-siblings aged 6, 3 and 1, and a livery cabdriver who boarded there, Collins said. None of the younger children were injured, police said.

Hello where were the other 2 adults while this child was laying in bed dying. I know they said the boyfriend came home the next day I assume after the beating with the mop handle. But damn I'm sure as hell that this wasn't the first time the mom beat the child so why didn't the two adults turn her fucking ass in before now.

Police said detectives found the mop handle the mother used to beat her daughter taped back together so it could again be used as a mop.

Oh I'm pissed, I hope someone in prison beats the living shit out of her and with something much much worse than a mop handle more like a pitchfork.

**Silvahalo** · October 27th, 2008, 12:41 AM

This soulless bitch! poor child I can't imagine her horror, (O.K., I can imagine a little). Being chased by a crazed women who is your mother!...what terror. She let her die in her own vomit...scared and hated.

What a vile creature.

Rest in peace little Alejandra...rest with the angels.

**Unamused Cat** · October 27th, 2008, 01:38 AM

Update

After hours of being questioned on Sunday, the mother, Florencia Vasquez, 36.

More info at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/ny...l?ref=nyregion

:(

**crickett** · October 27th, 2008, 05:30 AM

Give me the mop handle and that bitch.....
I have lots of things to despise babys daddies for but none of all that would EVER excuse taking it out on a child
fucking worthless cunt!
Thay do good work with mop handles in prison

**lilbay** · October 27th, 2008, 10:51 AM

This case just really gets me She had her daughter move in with her only a month ago from her Father's home in Mexico. Mind you she had one child removed for abuse.
Yet the Dad possibly not knowing? Allowed the daughter to move to the US to live with Mom.
Sadly the child was found dead in her bed.
Her Mother had beaten her so badly that she broke the broom in two.

Florencia Vazquez, 36, allegedly admitted she bashed the girl, Alejandra, so hard Thursday that the broomstick broke in two.

She then did nothing as the girl lay in her bed, vomiting and eating no food, until the woman's boyfriend found the body around 6 a.m. yesterday, the sources said.

Landlord Pablo Acevedo, 58, said the family had rented the $1,300-a-month apartment on Atlantic Avenue for six months, after moving from a shelter.

"I can't explain how that happened," he said. "Those people looked like nice people."

Sources said the dead girl had joined her mother in Brooklyn only a month ago, after moving from Mexico, where her biological father still lives.

It was not the mother's first encounter with authorities.

Child-welfare officials placed her 14-year-old daughter into foster care in January after Vazquez attacked her, yanking out a clump of her hair, sources said.

It was unclear yesterday if the mother was charged in that incident.

The Administration for Children's Services said only that it is investigating the case.

Alejandra was found covered with bruises and scabs and also had a section of hair missing, sources said.

In addition to Alejandra and the 14-year-old, three other children - ages 1, 3 and 6 - lived in the apartment

Seeking a picture will edit when found

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10272008...mom_135461.htm

More info on this story found at the below links

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/girl.be....2.849323.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/ny...l?ref=nyregion

**TheMorningStar** · October 27th, 2008, 11:02 AM

During an interview with police, the girl's mother told investigators she "despises" her daughter and chased her around the family's East New York home on Thursday, striking her with the mop handle. The girl, who tried to escape the beating by hiding beneath a baby crib, then lay in bed for three days, vomiting and unable to eat.

"She despises the child for something that happened with the father in Mexico," where he lives, a police source said Sunday.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ne...0,865837.story

Vazquez reportedly initially said Alejandra had been involved in a street fight, but after hours of questioning, she confessed to the murder; a police source explained that she "despised everything connected to her ex-husband."

http://gothamist.com/2008/10/27/moth...ly_beating.php

**crickett** · October 27th, 2008, 11:35 AM

I love you lilbay but someone posted this just a little earlier...I don't have the link but I commented on it...
I'll just comment again...
FUCKING CUNT!!!!!
Coulda left her in Mexico if she didn't want her. Poor dad probably thought she was going to have a better life here.
RIP little Alejandra

**lilbay** · October 27th, 2008, 02:15 PM

LOL I must type slow as the dickens.
i search every time I post something and there is nothing there yet by the time I post it is up.
I feel so old and senile.

Sorry Mods for adding to your job

Bay

**Nell** · October 27th, 2008, 02:30 PM

I have this fear of papercuts. It is irrational, but they freak me the fuck out. I wish a death of many slow papercuts on this bitch. That would be justice. multiple papercuts until she bleeds out, screaming. Kinda like her precious daughter, may she RIP.

**crickett** · October 27th, 2008, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by lilbay

LOL I must type slow as the dickens.
i search every time I post something and there is nothing there yet by the time I post it is up.
I feel so old and senile.

Sorry Mods for adding to your job

Bay

S'awright....you know that everyone who takes the time to post REALLY cares...
Things I could do with an 11 year old girl from Mexico:
I could help her with her English, She could help me with my Spanish...I love talking with Hispanic children....they're GREAT little teachers and give you a fresh view of everything.
We could go to Knotts Berry Farm for Halloween along with my son
We could bake pastries together for Thanksgiving
We could put up the tree and decorate it the day after Thanksgiving
Pick out Christmas gifts, go shopping together
Make Christmas gifts and decorations
I'd take her to Disneyland
Someone to go to the beach with...love to walk the beach even in winter

A wasted life not appreciated by her mother for the gift that she was....Loved by others even in death....
If you don't want your children let someone have them who will....

**Nell** · October 27th, 2008, 02:35 PM

Stop Crickett you are making me weep. And no pics of this precious angel? That is sad.

**moonlilly1981** · October 27th, 2008, 06:01 PM

Mops are for cleaning not beating your children with. Stupid evil bitch. If you dont want kids keep your legs closed!!!!! If you hate your ex and everything even your kids because of it then by God leave them where they are. I hate women like her who just pop these kids out like there is no tommorow. Poor girl never had a chance. Throw in charges for the other men in the home who did nothing to help this poor girl. Poor thing never had a chance. I have a mop handle I would like to beat you with.

**Jaded** · October 28th, 2008, 11:04 AM

Alejandra....

The Brooklyn mom who admitted beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle also abused the girl's older sister - and tried to make her work for a living, law enforcement sources said Monday.

Florencia Vazquez, who told detectives the fatal blows she delivered to her daughter Alejandra were so hard the mop's wooden handle snapped in two, was charged with murder and her boyfriend with manslaughter last night.

Vazquez also admitted beating the dead girl's 14-year-old sister, Imelda. Last year, the older girl was sent from her father's home in Mexico to her mother's cramped East New York apartment, which Vazquez, 36, shared with her boyfriend, Andres Pavon-Balderas, 28, who fathered two of her other three children.

Almost immediately, Vazquez began to abuse Imelda and forbade her from attending school, the sources said.

"They argued and the mother beat this 14-year-old girl and pulled out her hair," a police source said.

The Administration for Children's Services filed a neglect petition against Vazquez in January. It was unclear if the agency knew of the abuse.

A Brooklyn Family Court judge removed Imelda from her mother's home, but the judge and ACS were not aware the three other children - ages 6, 3, and 1 - lived in the Atlantic Ave. apartment at the time, sources said. Alejandra arrived last month.

It was not clear if those children had been abused, officials said. They are in foster care.

Though she took the time to repair the broken handle, Vazquez ignored her daughter's whimpers and only dialed 911 when a man who rented a room in the couple's apartment saw the girl's battered body.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c..._with_mop.html

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 29th, 2008, 12:42 PM

What mop, asks beating victim Alejandra Vazquez's mom

The lawyer for a Brooklyn mom charged with beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle said Tuesday the girl fell while hanging a shower curtain.

Florencia Vazquez, 36, stood meekly as her lawyer said she saw daughter Alejandra fall in a bathtub a week earlier and linger for six days before she was found dead Sunday morning.

"She observed her daughter Alejandra putting up a shower curtain" that broke on Oct. 20, defense lawyer Anthony Baratta said. "She fell, she went into the tub and she sustained some kind of injury."

Vazquez's story contradicted a medical report saying Alejandra died from child abuse syndrome, including blows to the head, body, arms and legs - as well as police accounts that the mother broke a mop handle over her head.

Detectives said shortly after she was arrested, she admitted beating the girl so hard the mop handle broke. She also admitted abusing Alejanda's 14-year-old sister, who is now in foster care along with three younger children.

Yet the mother of five claimed her innocence as she was walked past reporters and photographers Monday night and yelled, "I didn't kill her!" in Spanish.

"There was absolutely no injury related to a mop handle," Baratta said in court Tuesday. "It was a tragic accident."

Alejandra seemed all right after falling last week, he said, but by Wednesday she was dizzy and by Saturday she had a severe headache. Vazquez called a doctor who told her to take over-the-counter medication and call back if she didn't get better. By early Sunday morning, Alejandra was dead.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...andra_v-1.html

Somehow "I only watched her die" does not make it any less heinous. (If anyone even believes her)

**Maggie Mae** · October 29th, 2008, 12:54 PM

Is it my imagination, or are there a LOT of "the bathtub did it" stories out there?

Are we supposed to believe her? Yes, lady, I'm sure your daughter died because of the bathtub. And I'm also sure that none of the vicious mop handle blows had anything to do with it, they were just coincidentally super close to the time of death and coincidentally LOOK like the cause of death.

Dakota, I agree with you, the "I watched her die" thing really only pisses me off more.

**crickett** · October 29th, 2008, 01:00 PM

She and her dishonest lying attorney may BOTH rot in hell forever

**Jessiesgirl1108** · August 19th, 2010, 10:25 AM

The heartbroken teenage sister of an 11-year-old girl beaten to death by their mom with a mop handle lashed out Tuesday as the woman was tossed in prison.
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"My mother deserves to get a lot of time in jail for all the harm she has done. ... I will never forgive her for what she did to us."
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Her eyes welled with tears when Justice Neil Firetog sentenced her mother to 16 years behind bars for brutally killing her sister Alejandra. Vazquez also was hit with a concurrent sentence of seven years for assault.
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Alejandra's lifeless body was found two days after the attack, when a man who rented a room in the family's East New York apartment spotted the corpse.
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"She cries often. She's sorry for what she did," lawyer Andrew Friedman said outside the courtroom. "She can't explain why she did it, only that she did it."

In court, the stone-faced Vazquez appeared defiant.

Asked if she wanted to give a statement, the murderous mom was overheard ripping her daughters.

"I brought them to this country, and this is how they pay me," she was overheard saying to a court interpreter.

Vazquez's boyfriend, Andres Pavon-Balderas, was charged with manslaughter in the gruesome slaying.

He pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide last Friday and is awaiting sentencing on Aug. 30.

Sources said the Mexican immigrant is expected to be sentenced to time served and deported.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c..._daughter.html

**SqueezeBoxx** · August 19th, 2010, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by jessiesgirl1108

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c..._daughter.html

DEPORT THIS UGLY WITCH! HOW DARE SHE! I have an 11 year old daughter. And she can be a BEAST. While I'd love to slap her across her flippant mouth somethimes, the thought of BEATING HER TO DEATH has NEVER crossed my mind.

I can only assume that we have been paying for her illegal ass and her spawn since she's been here. Please just DEPORT her ass - Sell her to the druglords so we can recover some of the welfare money she's been sucking, and let them use her up and cut off her head and put it on a mop handle.

**RobotSocks** · August 19th, 2010, 12:03 PM

"She cries often. She's sorry for what she did," lawyer Andrew Friedman said outside the courtroom. "She can't explain why she did it, only that she did it."

I can live the rest of my life without knowing why she did it. The fact is, she DID it!