In what has to be one of the grizzliest murders of all time, a mother along with her boyfriend and his cousin committed a heinous murder of a ten year girl. She was injected with meth, then raped by the boyfriend and his female cousin before they stabbed her, dismembered her body and the wrapped in a blanket and burned.
The mother, Michelle Martens, her boyfriend, Fabian Gonzales and his cousin, Jessica Kelley were arrested Wednesday in New Mexico for the rape and murder of marten’s daughter, Victoria on her 10th birthday. It is alleged that Gonzales injected Victoria with meth to calm her down so that he and his cousin, Kelley could rape her. She was murdered by strangulation and multiple stabbings. She was then dismembered and the body was burned.
The girl’s mother, 35-year-old Michelle Martens, her 31-year-old boyfriend, Fabian Gonzales, and his 31-year-old cousin, Jessica Kelley, face charges of child abuse resulting in death, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
Gonzales and Kelley have also been charged with criminal sexual penetration of a minor.
Gonzales, his left eye looking black and swollen, denied having anything to do with Victoria’s death as he was led out of the police station in handcuffs late Wednesday as reporters yelled questions at him. He and Martens reportedly had met on a dating site
The victim’s mother, with a stitched-up wound above her nose, said nothing as she was led out and placed into the back of a police car.
Police said Kelley was hospitalized late Wednesday and will be booked after she is released. No details were disclosed about why she was hospitalized.
This afternoon, Michelle Martens and Fabian Gonzales made their initial court appearances and were ordered held on $1million bond each. Neither entered a plea.