Crime & Safety

No Bond For Mother Charged After 5-Year-Old Daughter Stabbed To Death

When her grandfather returned home, the woman's other daughter told him "her mommy killed her little sister," police said.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman was ordered held without bond after she was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her 5-year-old daughter on Chicago’s West Side.

Simone Austin, 27, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Serenity Arrington, according to police and Cook County prosecutors. A judge denied her bail at her bond hearing on Monday. Detectives and prosecutors said Austin cut Serenity’s throat in front of her 8-year-old sister, using a serrated knife.

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