Mother tells of ‘evil’ before girl slain

LAS VEGAS — A woman accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with scissors told police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an “evil” presence before the attack.

“Did I kill my daughter? Is she dead?”’ Danielle Yvonne Slaughter asked police after the found her Sunday, naked, bloody and running barefoot through Las Vegas, according to court documents released Tuesday.

The 27-year-old woman was hospitalized after she told police that the blood on her hands was from the “lamb of God.” Police later found Kyla Franks dead at their home.

Slaughter was held at the Clark County jail pending an initial court appearance today on a murder charge. It wasn’t immediately clear if she had a lawyer.

In a recorded police interview early Monday, Slaughter told investigators that she had trouble sleeping since she started taking the weight-loss product Hydroxycut four days earlier and that she had been feeling “an evil presence” for several days. She said she slept just one hour Saturday night.

Slaughter told police she and her daughter were sitting on the bed when the girl spoke in “evil words,” laughed “in an evil voice” and clawed and kicked at her. The mother said she picked up scissors and struck the child several times.