infoMother charged in fatal stabbing of 5-year-old daughter in Chicago

Mother charged in fatal stabbing of 5-year-old daughter in Chicago

Simone Austin, 27, is charged with first-degree murder after police say they found her daughter, 5-year-old Serenity Arrington, lying along the sidewalk and bleeding from the neck Saturday in front of her Chicago home.

At a Monday bond hearing, prosecutors said Austin was at home the morning of Serenity\u00e2\u0080\u0099s death with the little girl and her 8-year-old sister. She allegedly told the sister to leave the room, pulled a knife out from underneath a pillow and repeatedly stabbed Serenity in the neck as her sister watched from the keyhole in the door.

Prosecutors say she then laid Serenity out in front of the house, and when police and fire personnel arrived, she told them she did it and that she was sorry. The 8-year-old was screaming \u00e2\u0080\u009cher mommy killed her little sister,\u00e2\u0080\u009d too.

Austin has no criminal background. She is being held without bail before her next hearing on Oct. 19.