An Oklahoma pediatrician is accused of staging her daughter’s accidental death in Florida
A pediatrician from Oklahoma was accused of murder, said the authorities, she organized the accidental death of her daughter during a vacation rental in the suburbs of Miami, the judicial files obtained on Thursday.
Dr. Neha Gupta, 36, was arrested for first degree murder in Oklahoma City and awaits extradition to Florida in the death of his daughter on June 27, the miami-dade sheriff said in a press release.
The 4 -year -old girl, identified in an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant, was deemed insensitive in a swimming pool at home, but her lungs and her stomach did not contain any water, which prompted the authorities to exclude drowning as a cause of death.
A Gupta lawyer said Thursday that he was disappointed that the sheriff’s office “decided to stop a mourning mother who has fully cooperated with the police and who is absolutely devastated for the loss of her child”.
“We are impatiently awaiting more evidence, evidence that the Miami Dade sheriff office could not have obtained in the 24-hour survey that they have completed,” said lawyer, Richard L. Cooper, in an email.
According to the Affidavit, Gupta went to Florida from Oklahoma, where she is a doctor on June 25 and rented a house in El Portal, north of Miami.
Gupta told the authorities that she arrived at the rental with her daughter between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on June 26 after spending the day at the beach. Gupta woke up the girl to feed her dinner at 9 p.m., and the 4 -year -old child was awake until 12:30 p.m., according to Affidavit.
Gupta told the authorities that she had been awakened around 3:20 am and saw that her daughter was not in the bed they were sharing, according to the Affidavit.
A sliding glass door of the patio was open, Gupta told the authorities, even if she said that she had locked it before bed.
Gupta “said that she then observed the” deceased victim “underwater in the residence’s swimming pool,” said the Affidavit. “The subject” said that she had tried to remove the victim from the swimming pool; However, it failed due to the fact that it is unable to swim. “”
Gupta said she tried to help the girl for 10 minutes before dialing 911, according to the Affidavit.
The first stakeholders carried out the RCR, but was declared dead in a hospital at 4:28 am, according to the Affidavit.
During an autopsy on Sunday, a pathologist from the Department of the Legalist’s Department of the County of Miami-Dade noted that the lungs and the stomach of the girl were “dry” and that the cuts in her mouth and the bruises on her cheeks were “non-coherent” with the life efforts of the first stakeholders, according to Affidavit.
The pathologist concluded that the girl had died before she was placed in the pool, said the Affidavit.
Although the cause and the manner of death are pending, the preliminary results of the pathologist indicate that the girl’s injuries are in conformity with asphyxiation by suffocating, says the affidavit.
The autopsy also showed that the girl’s stomach was empty, contrary to what Gupta told the authorities to have nourished her at 9 p.m., says the Affidavit.
Gupta “tried to hide the murder of the” deceased victim “by organizing accidental drowning in the pool of a rental property,” he said.
Affidavit does not identify a possible reason.
Gupta was in a guard battle with her ex-husband when her daughter died, and he didn’t know that she had left Oklahoma, according to the document.
