Father beheads his children and forces their siblings to live with the corpses – Mother arrested 1 year later

In December 2020, the Los Angeles Fire Department was called to a home in Lancaster, California to deal with a possible gas leak. What the firefighters were going to see, however, will probably be etched in their memory forever. Two children, beheaded, in separate rooms, while the rest of their family was inside the house.

The father of two children and gymnast Maurice Taylor, 35, was arrested and charged with the murders of the children of Maliaka Taylor and Maurice Taylor Jr., 13 and 12 respectively.

According to prosecutors, the 35-year-old was accused of beheaded his children and forced the other two, 8 and 9 years old to look at the corpses and live with them for 5 days.

The murdered children were discovered five days after they were beheaded at their home in California on November 29, 2020.

The mother was arrested almost a year later

This week, according to the Independent, the case went further as the children ‘s mother, Natalie Brothwell, was arrested at her home in Arizona, on two counts of murder.

The 44-year-old is being held in Pima County Jail before being extradited to California. It is unclear why police arrested the mother so long after the father was arrested and what her role was in the deaths of her children.

A statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said, “Firefighters arrived at the scene and found a man and a woman dead inside the house.” “Both were seriously injured by a knife.”

Brothwell has been charged separately with two counts of child criminal threat. Her children were forced to stay in their rooms without food for several days, according to prosecutors.

Taylor remains in custody on $ 4.2 million bail.