PICTURED: Girl, 5, who screamed ‘but I’ve been good’ as her mom stabbed her then strangled her to death for 30 MINUTES in Texas woods because she claimed the child was ‘evil’
- Nichole is seen smiling in heartbreaking pictures from before she was killed
- Other images show mom Melissa Towne and her happily together as they posed
- Melissa showed up at a hospital in Tomball, Texas, with Nichole in the car
- The child was wrapped in a laundry bag, had bruising around her neck and face
- Her throat had been cut with a knife similar to one found in her mother’s pocket
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A five-year-old Texas girl who screamed ‘but I’ve been good’ as her mom stabbed and strangled her to death has been pictured.
Nichole is seen smiling in heartbreaking photos from before she was brutally killed by her 37-year-old mother Melissa Towne.
Other images show the mother and daughter happily together as they posed for pictures before the horrific death.
It comes after Melissa showed up at a hospital in Tomball on Sunday with Nichole in the passenger seat of the car.
The child was wrapped in a laundry mesh bag, had bruising around her neck and face.
Her throat had been cut with a knife similar to one found in her mother’s pocket. Melissa admitted to killing Nichole, who she described as ‘evil’.
Nichole is seen smiling in heartbreaking pictures from before she was killed by her 37-year-old mother Melissa Towne
It comes after Melissa showed up at a hospital in Tomball on Sunday with Nichole in the passenger seat of the car
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She said she ‘didn’t want to deal with her anymore’, so decided to kill her in the woods.
She told detectives the girl pleaded ‘but I’ve been good’ as she strangled her. Melissa, ignoring her daughter’s pleas, told her not to ‘fight her’.
Charging documents describe how she drove the child to a wooded park where she slit her throat.
When she didn’t die, she put a plastic bag around her head to suffocate her, and also strangled her. Melissa drove to a hospital with her daughter’s body.
She walked inside and asked for help, telling nurses her daughter was in the car and her body was ‘hurting’.
A nurse then waked outside to the woman’s Jeep Cherokee, where she saw the child inside. Her head was wrapped in plastic and her throat had been slit.
The child was wrapped in a laundry mesh bag, had bruising around her neck and face
A judge set Melissa’s bond at $15million on Monday. It remains unclear why she was looking after the girl on Sunday.
According to local outlet KHOU, Melissa did not have legal custody of her. The child’s father has not been named.
She has three other children aged between two and 18 who are all ‘safe and accounted for’. Towne’s arrest history includes assault, trespassing and vandalism.
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