Mother Charged With Murder After 5yo Found Unresponsive In Trunk

Police have arrested a Davis woman in connection to the death of her 5-year-old daughter, Sacramento Police announced Thursday night.

The woman has been identified as 29-year-old Davis resident Aquelin Talamantes. She has been charged with murder.

According to a release from the Sacramento Police Department, around 2:35 p.m. officers showed up to an apartment complex near Pocket Road and W. Shore Drive to check up on the welfare of the girl. Family members of Talamantes called police after getting more and more concerned about the girl’s condition after the woman had apparently driven to Sacramento without the 5-year-old.

Officers at the scene talked to Talamantes and the 5-year-old was soon found in the trunk of her car.

The girl was found to be unresponsive and both the officers and bystanders started CPR. The girl was soon rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced dead.

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Davis police say officers made a visit to the home of a woman Thursday who is suspected in the death of her daughter later that day.

A spokesperson for the Davis Police Department said the call for help was made around 9 a.m. An officer happened to make a traffic stop on an unrelated party in front of the Glide Drive residence of Aquelin Talamantes, the mother. Talamantes walked out of her home to the officer and said she couldn't take care of her children.

The officer called for help from the police department. Police arrived and talked to Talamantes for about 30 to 40 minutes. The spokesperson said they reported not finding any indications of abuse of Talamantes' daughter Tatiana and the home was clean. The officers left.

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The Yolo County Coroner's Office on Friday identified the 5-year-old girl found in the trunk of her mother's car in Sacramento's Pocket neighborhood as Tatianna Garcia of Davis.
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The preliminary investigation has revealed indications the girl was injured at the home she shared with her mother, Aquelin Talamantes, in the Yolo County city of Davis. Police suspect the woman then put the girl in the trunk and brought her to Sacramento, where she was discovered clinging to life, said Sacramento police Officer Doug Morse.

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CbabyRKO said:

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this all went down in Yolo county?

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An officer went inside the home at around 9 a.m. on Thursday when Talamantes started behaving strangely, asking multiple times why the officer was at her home after the officer explained why.

Talamantes was at the home with another adult relative, her daughter Tatiana and Tatiana’s little brother.

“The kids were sitting on the couch playing, laughing,” said Davis Lt. Paul Doroshov. “They appeared to be healthy. They appeared to be clean.”

The officer spent 30 minutes in the home, but found nothing that would have triggered taking a child away.

Davis Police say the connection between that stop and the discovery of the child’s body was only made after the fact.

“We were called again to that house by the other adult who lives there a relative of the suspect, that we find the suspect and the victim at that point,” Doroshov said.

That call was made at 1 p.m. that day, reporting the Talamantes and Garcia missing.

Ninety minutes later, Sacramento Police were called to a welfare check in Sacramento. At around 3 p.m. they would find Garcia in the trunk of her mom’s car.

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A Davis mother in jail for killing her 5-year-old daughter is no stranger to heartbreaking loss. Her own mother was murdered when she was a little girl. It was a widely reported case nearly 20 years ago.
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The family friend, who wants to remain anonymous, says Talamantes was recently diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, but had not been taking medication.

The death is another heartbreaking loss for the Talamantes family.

“Their whole family has had a great tragedy. Their mother was murdered,” she said.

Rosa Talamantes, Aquelin’s mother, went missing back in 1995 and her body was found in a field a month later. Her boyfriend was ultimately charged with her murder.

Rosa left behind seven children. Aquelin was 11 at the time. The little girl who lost her mom is now grown and police believe she killed her daughter.

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The family of a 5-year-old girl who died after being found in her mother’s trunk says the girl should have been with them instead.

A grandmother in mourning, Martha Garcia is still coming to terms with the brutal death of 5-year-old Tatiana Garcia, allegedly killed at the hands of the girl’s mother, Aquelin Talamantes.
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Martha explains that little Tatiana and her mother lived at Garcia’s Suisun City home for nearly three years.

“When she was here, she was fine.”

But she says when Talamantes and her son broke up, she moved out and started a bitter custody battle, documented in court papers obtained by CBS13. Talamantes would keep the children, and file a restraining order against the children’s father.

“We didn’t know anything about her or the kids,” said Martha Garcia.

Until police delivered the tragic events of Thursday.

Tatiana’s aunt, Claudia Garcia, says there were signs of depression, but they never thought this would happen.

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The family of 5-year-old Tatiana Garcia, who was found in the trunk of her mother's car, question whether her body should have been released to her father.

The question: Does a restraining order apply in death?

Jennifer Ani, the lawyer for the maternal relatives of Tatiana Garcia, said it does and the family is upset Tatiana's body was released to her father Oracio Garcia.
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Tatiana's dad Oracio Garcia had a restraining order against him, barring contact with Tatiana, Talamantes and her little brother.

The Talamantes family originally had funeral services planned for Tatiana on Thursday. They said the Sacramento County coroner, instead, released her body to Garcia. According to the coroner's website, Tatiana's body was released to the Bryan-Braker Funeral home. Garcia's sister said they had a private funeral service for Tatiana Thursday morning, but declined to provide any more information.

Court documents show Garcia's restraining order stemmed from domestic violence issues and wasn't supposed to expire until 2017. Different court records show Garcia describes Talamantes as suffering from "anger problems", and he was worried about his children.

Ani said Garcia had no custody rights while Tatiana was alive and has no rights to her body now.

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A Davis resident charged with the death of her 5-year-old daughter is now facing felony battery charges, according to a Yolo County Sheriff's Office report.

Aquelin Talamantes, 29, is charged with two counts of felony battery on a correctional officer and one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest. An arraignment for these charges is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Department 9.

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