The emotionally disturbed woman, who in a dramatic 911 call told the dispatcher, “I killed my daughter,” has been arrested for murder, police said Friday.
NYPD detectives charged Francis Cabello, 32, late Thursday, a day after her 5-year-old daughter was found unconscious and bleeding from her mouth and nose inside the family’s Richmond Hill home after the suspect called 911 and confessed to a dispatcher, police said.
Little Fabiana Cabello was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she later died.
Police sources said Cabello has a history of mental health problems recorded by the NYPD, who have responded to the home in the past.
After she called 911, police took Cabello into custody, at which point she was taken to Jamaica Hospital for a psychiatric observation.
It wasn’t immediately disclosed how Fabiana died.
Cabello’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending Friday.
Outside the home on Thursday, Fabiana’s father, the mother’s ex-boyfriend, Kuldeep Singh, told the Daily News his ex was a loving mother he never would have suspected to be involved in the girl’s death.
“I never see anything in her actions to cause concern,” Singh said. “She cared for her so much. When I took my daughter, she called me many times to check on her, like, “Everything okay? Any problems?”
Singh, 36, an Uber driver, did not live with his daughter, whom he called “Fabi,” but spoke to her nightly on the phone. When he last saw her two weeks ago, she seemed happy and normal, he said.
“She was happy with me,” he said. “She kiss me 100 times.”
He shared a voice message Fabiana sent him saying, “Hi Papa, how are you?”
Neighbor Luis Salomon Perez, 60, said his grandchildren often played with Fabiana, who he described as “a good girl, very decent, kind and cheerful.”
About six months ago, Perez said he noticed a change in her mother.
“She used to come around to take her daughter to school and then, from one moment to another, she stopped coming out,” Perez said in Spanish.
“She was a good mother, but she was suffering from depression. I even spoke to her sister about it, how she was acting depressed, hardly ever leaving the house, not even taking the child to school or out to play anymore.”