HOUSTON – “May he repent and God forgive him for all he did.” With this phrase, Ana Elizabeth Xitumul Saput, the mother of María González, the 11-year-old girl who was raped and strangled last Saturday in Pasadena, spoke about the tragedy that her family is experiencing.
Ana is in Guatemala, her native country, where she is being treated for a serious heart condition that motivated her to allow María to travel to the United States some time ago in search of a better future.
“I don’t want to cry anymore, because I have a bad heart and I’m undergoing treatment,” Ana said in an exclusive interview with Telemundo Houston from her country.
“I want justice to be done, to be delivered… and I am asking God a lot for good-hearted people to help us repatriate my daughter,” said the woman, who has another minor girl who lives with her in Guatemala.
Telemundo Houston also spoke with María’s uncle, Reginaldo González, who came to the apartment at the call of his brother Carmelo, who was working on Saturday at the time of the deadly attack on the minor.
“When I opened the door there was sugar and coffee on the sofa, I felt something different,” said Reginaldo, who revealed that the girl’s body was placed inside a laundry basket covered with a bag.
The minor had been abused and suffocated, according to the Pasadena police
According to what Carmelo told Telemundo Houston, he went to work that Saturday morning, but had telephone contact with María during the day on several occasions. According to him, the minor even told him that they were knocking on the door of the apartment in the middle of one of the calls.
Carmelo and her daughter moved to Pasadena about two months ago after living in Florida and Austin, Texas. The father said that he sought out this city because he had family there and he wanted the girl to grow up with her cousins.
According to Pasadena police, “The Harris County Medical Examiner concluded that the cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation. Further investigation determined that the victim was sexually assaulted.”
The neighborhood where Carmelo lived with his daughter is a small apartment complex where, according to the police, a community of Guatemalans lives.
The authorities are asking for help to solve this crime that shakes this city located southeast of the Houston metropolitan area and for this reason, they ask that if anyone knows anything they should call detectives Quintanilla or Mata of Pasadena PD at 713-475-7803 or at 713-475-7878, respectively.
A $5,000 reward is being offered through Crime Stoppers. If you have information about this case you can call 713-222-8477 or click to report anonymously.
