11-Year-Old Indian-Origin Boy Murdered by Mother After Disneyland Trip: Shocking Reason Revealed

Boy Murdered by Mother After Disneyland Trip: An Indian-origin woman has been charged with allegedly murdering her 11-year-old son after a three-day vacation to Disneyland.

Saritha Ramaraju, 48, has been charged with one felony count of murder for slitting her son’s throat, killing the boy after they went on a vacation to Disneyland during a custody visit. She has also been charged with one felony enhancement of personal use of a weapon, a knife..

She faces a maximum sentence of 26 years to life if convicted on all charges, a statement from the Office of the District Attorney, Orange County, California said Friday.

Saritha Ramaraju, who moved out of California after divorcing the boy's father in 2018, was staying with her son at a motel in Santa Ana for a custody visit. During their time together, she purchased three day passes to Disneyland for them..

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However, on March 19, the day she was supposed to check out of the motel and return the child to his father, Ramaraju called 911 at 9:12 am. She reported that she had killed her son and had taken pills in an attempt to end her own life..

When Santa Ana police arrived at the motel, they found the young boy dead on the bed, surrounded by Disneyland souvenirs. Officers believe he had been dead for several hours before Ramaraju made the emergency call. A large kitchen knife, purchased the day before, was found inside the motel room..

Ramaraju was released from the hospital on Thursday after ingesting the unknown substance and arrested on suspicion of stabbing the boy to death..

"The life of a child should not hang in the balance between two parents whose anger for each other outweighs their love for their child," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said..

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"Anger makes you forget who you love and what you are responsible for doing. The safest place for a child should be in their parents' arms. Instead of wrapping her arms around their son in love, she slit his throat and in the cruelest twist of fate removed him from the very world she brought him into." While the statement did not name the boy, who was pronounced dead at the scene, a report in NBC Los Angeles identified him as Yatin Ramaraju..

Notably, Ramaraju had been engaged in a custody battle for her son with her husband Prakash Raju since last year. The fight came as a result of Ramaraju's allegations that he was making medical and school decisions by himself, without consulting her inputs. She also alleged that her ex-husband had issues with substance abuse..

Following the couple's divorce in 2018, Raju was granted the custody of his son while Saritha was given visitation rights, court records said..

Ramaraju was living in Virginia's Fairfax and wanted her 11-year-old child to live with her. She had accused Ramaraju of a "history of substance abuse issues", adding that he "gets very aggressive under the influence of alcohol, drugs and smoke"..

She accused Prakash Raju of having "severe control issues", saying that their son is "very scared to talk to mother as he will get into trouble with dad"..

Raju, on the other hand, accused his former wife of "citing completely false and untrue abuse and substance abuse issues".

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