NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say a Brooklyn mother has confessed she fatally beat her 11-year-old daughter with a mop handle and left her to die in bed.
Florenzia Vazquez (floh-REN'-zeeah VAHZ'-kez) told detectives she hit the girl so hard on the head that the handle shattered. The child was found dead Sunday in the family's Atlantic Avenue apartment _ three days after she was left whimpering in her bedroom.
The thirty-six-year-old mother and her boyfriend - father of two of her other children - called 911 after a man renting a room from them saw the girl lying motionless, according to the Daily News.
The city's child welfare agency is investigating and charges against the couple are pending.
Vazquez' other children include a 14-year-old daughter who officials say was placed in foster care by the city's Administration for Children's Services.
An immigrant from Mexico, the mother had left the two girls behind when she came to the United States several years ago. The older daughter joined her last January, and Alejandra last month.
The woman told detectives she ``despised'' everything linked to her ex-husband in Mexico, including their two daughters, according to the News.
Her three other children - ages 1, 3 and 6 - were taken to Kings County Hospital for observation, but were not injured, officials said.
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