06-16-2011, 04:30 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon woman who reportedly admitted strangling her 11-year-old daughter to death, saying she did it to protect the girl from pedophiles, was arrested yesterday.
Kristina Buckley, 38, was arrested Wednesday after being released from medical care and charged with murder for the June 2 death of her daughter Cecilia, at home in the Portland suburb of Sherwood.
According to court records, police responding to a report of an injured child found Kristina Buckley locked in a bathroom inside the home. She was holding a kitchen knife and had self-inflicted cuts to her wrists and neck.
Patrick Buckley, 41, Kristina's husband, had just arrived home and was trying to revive their daughter.
Cecilia was declared dead at the Meridian Park Hospital,
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