Mom with 'great resentment' for 4-year-old daughter murdered her over attention from dad

A 33-year-old pistillate successful West Virginia volition apt walk the remainder of her beingness down bars for killing her 4-year-old daughter, stabbing and slitting the girl's pharynx due to the fact that she was jealous of the attraction the kid was getting from her husband.

Kanawha County Circuit Judge Michael Froble connected Thursday ordered Rebakah Weikle to service 2 presumption of 15 years to life successful a authorities correctional facility aft she pleaded blameworthy to first-degree execution and kid maltreatment resulting successful decease successful the 2022 slaying of her girl Haley. The sentences volition tally consecutively, meaning Weikle indispensable service astatine slightest 30 years earlier she is eligible for parole.

Prosecutors said the sidesplitting stemmed from an escalating and profoundly disturbing motive — maternal envy, according to a report from Oak Hill, West Virginia, CBS affiliate WOAY.

"Young Haley laid down, and astatine immoderate point, Rebakah made the determination to chopped her throat," Summers County Prosecuting Attorney Chris Lefler said successful court, describing however the kid struggled arsenic her parent inflicted aggregate wounds. "She was past capable to marque the fatal laceration crossed Haley's pharynx and took her life."

Authorities said Weikle carried retired the horrific onslaught wrong the family's location successful the Forest Hill country successful July 2022 aft becoming jealous of the attraction her hubby paid to the child. Investigators aboriginal determined she had researched however to termination the kid anterior to the murder.

"She stated that she had this large resentment towards her girl for immoderate reason, and decided to instrumentality her life," Lefler said, according to WOAY. "It astir seems intolerable to accept."

Prosecutors said that aft the killing, Weikle near her daughter's assemblage successful her furniture overnight, letting her hubby find the mutilated assemblage the pursuing morning, WV MetroNews reported.

Weikle reportedly attempted to conceal the transgression by hiding the weapon and the apparel she had been wearing earlier going to bed, leaving the child's assemblage successful the location overnight.

When her hubby rushed to the chamber and discovered the scene, helium instructed Weikle to telephone 911. She reportedly entered the numbers but did not spot the call, prompting him to instrumentality the telephone and interaction exigency services himself.

In the yearslong probe that followed, Weikle repeatedly tried to displacement blasted onto her husband, falsely claiming helium killed the kid to screen up alleged intersexual abuse. Prosecutors said those allegations were untrue, and, arsenic portion of her plea, she yet admitted they were fabricated.

"She made allegations that I deliberation makes it easier to judge that idiosyncratic would termination their girl astir apt due to the fact that determination was thing much sinister going on," Lefler said, per Bluefield, West Virginia, NBC affiliate WVVA. "I deliberation that's easier to digest than a parent sidesplitting her four-year-old girl successful her bed, successful her ain bedroom, due to the fact that she resented and developed a jealousy of her daughter."

Lefler besides said integer evidence, including cellphone information and net searches, helped investigators portion unneurotic what occurred wrong the home.

"We were capable to portion unneurotic a amended representation of what occurred including her cellphone enactment and her searches which established that she was 1 that committed this act," helium said.

The child's begetter besides faced charges successful the case, pleading blameworthy to kid maltreatment and neglect and receiving a condemnation of location confinement and probation. Prosecutors said helium was not progressive successful the sidesplitting but had failed to code informing signs starring up to the crime.

"I privation everybody to cognize however evil the idiosyncratic that she is and what each she has done. She killed a 4-year-old baby, my baby," the begetter said successful court. "She was jealous that I was paying attraction to her, doing what I was expected to do, watching retired for her. I was trying to support her safe."

Officials said the lawsuit required coordination among aggregate instrumentality enforcement agencies crossed the portion and took years to afloat unravel arsenic investigators worked to flooded conflicting claims astir what happened wrong the home.

Weikle is expected to stay incarcerated for decades, with the tribunal acknowledging she is apt to dice successful prison, WOAY reported.