An Oklahoma pediatrician was accused of murder after the authorities said he organized his daughter’s accidental death in a vacation rental in the suburbs of Miami, the show of judicial records obtained on Thursday.
Neha Gupta, 36, was arrested under suspicion of first degree murder in the city of Oklahoma and is waiting for Florida extradition in the death of June 27 of her daughter, said the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s office in a press release.
The 4 -year -old girl, identified in an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant as AT, was found insensitive in a pool in the house, but her lungs and stomach did not contain water, which caused the authorities to rule out drowning as the cause of death.
A GUPTA lawyer said Thursday that he was disappointed from the Sheriff’s office “decided to hastily arrest a afflicted mother who fully cooperated with the police and is absolutely devastated by the loss of his son.”
“We expect more evidence, evidence that the Miami Dade Sheriff’s office could not have obtained in the 24 -hour investigation they completed,” said the lawyer, Richard L. Cooper, in an email.
According to the Affidavit, Gupta traveled to Florida from Oklahoma, where he is a medical, on June 25 and rented a house on the portal, north of Miami.
Gupta told the authorities that he reached rent with his daughter between 7 and 8 pm on June 26 after spending the day on the beach. Gupta woke the girl to feed her dinner at 9 PM, and the 4 -year -old girl remained until 12:30 am, according to the affidavit.
Gupta told the authorities that he woke up around 3:20 am for a noise and saw that his daughter was not in bed that they shared, according to the affidavit.
Gupta said a sliding glass door to the patio, Gupta said, although she said she had closed it before bedtime.
Gupta “declared that he later observed that the ‘deceased victim’ immersed himself under water inside the pool of the residence,” says the affidavit. “‘The subject’ declared that he tried to eliminate the victim from the pool; however, he was not successful due to the fact that he cannot swim.”
Gupta said he tried to help the girl for 10 minutes before marking 911, according to the affidavit.
The first to respond were made, but they spoke dead at a hospital at 4:28 am, according to the affidavit.
During a June 29 autopsy, a pathologist from the Miami-Dade County Medenicine Department discovered that the girls and stomach of the girl were “dry”, and the cuts inside her mouth and bruises on their cheeks “are not consistent” with the life efforts of the first to respond, according to the affidavit.
The pathologist concluded that the girl was dead before being placed in the pool, according to the affidavit.
While their cause and matter of death are pending, the pathologist’s preliminary findings indicate that the girl’s injuries are consistent with suffocation when suffocating, says the affidavit.
The autopsy also showed that the girl’s stomach was empty, contrary to what Gupta told the authorities about feeding her at 9 pm, according to the affidavit.
Gupta “tried to hide the murder of the ‘deceased victim’ by organizing an accidental drowning within the pool of a rental property,” says the affidavit.
The affidavit does not identify a possible reason.
Gupta was in a custody battle with her ex -husband at the time of her daughter’s death and he didn’t know that she had left Oklahoma, according to the document.
