OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) — A woman accused of forcing her children to drink bleach, killing one of them, is expected to face murder charges in Osceola County.
Osceola deputies responded to the Poinciana Pentecostal Church parking lot on Mother's Day where they found the woman and two children in a car, unresponsive.
Sheriff Marcos Lopez said Joanne Zephir was charged with attempted murder for a separate incident with a victim in Orange County. The victim will not be identified due to Marcy's Law.
A relative told detectives that Zephir "wanted to have time with her children" before turning herself in for the Orange County incident.
Several hours later, she called a family member and said she killed her 3-year-old and the 8-year-old was also going to die. She said she also planned to kill herself.
Zephir told deputies the Orange County victim put a “voodoo spell on her and made her harm her child.”
She told deputies she made them drink bleach and also choked the 3-year-old.
“Fortunately, we were able to get there before the 8-year-old died. But not before the 3-year-old died,” Lopez said.
The sheriff’s office is waiting for the medical examiner's findings to file attempted murder and child abuse charges in the child’s death.
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