SHERWOOD -- A Sherwood mother charged with the murder of her 11-year-old girl was taken to jail without bail Wednesday.
Kristina Buckley, 38, confessed to police that she strangled and killed her daughter to save her from pedophiles, according to a Washington County arrest warrant for murder.
The body of Cecilia Buckley was found on the living room floor of her home at 17618 SW Galewood Drive late afternoon on June 2. Police had been dispatched to a report of an unresponsive person.
Buckley made her confession during an ambulance ride to St. Vincent's hospital, where she was being taken for treatment of self-inflicted wounds to her wrists and neck, the warrant read.
Tualatin Police officer Kevin D. Winfield said he arrived at the Buckley home about 5:20 on June 2. He was told that Cecilia Buckley was found limp on the floor of the front living room of the home.
Attempts were made to revive her and she was taken to Meridian Park Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. A later autopsy would show she died of strangulation.
Sherwood police found Kristina Buckley had locked herself in the bathroom, with self-inflicted wounds to her wrists and neck.
Winfield wrote that Sherwood officers said Buckley made spontaneous statements that she was Cecilia's mother and that she had killed her daughter.
Winfield read Miranda rights to her in the ambulance on the way to St. Vincent's hospital. He said Buckley understood those rights and agreed to speak with him and a Tigard detective, acknowledging that by killing Cecilia Buckley she would go to jail.
Kristina Buckley said that in-part, her reason for killing Cecilia Buckley, Winfield wrote in the warrant, was because she wante to 'save' and protect Cecilia Buckley from pedophiles.
