Daughter accused of gouging out mom’s eyeballs: ‘I need help’
With her mom’s gouged-out eyeballs nearby in a box, a distressed Florida woman allegedly confessed to authorities that she was a “murderer” and needed help, officials said.
Camille Balla, 32, is accused in the vicious slaying of her mom, 55-year-old Francisca Monteiro-Balla, at their Royal Palm Beach home Friday while high on pot she claimed was laced, the Palm Beach Post reported.
Authorities responded to a call from Balla’s concerned co-worker and found the blood-soaked suspect frantic outside of the home.
“I killed my mother and I need help,” Balla reportedly told deputies before she turned over a bloody house key to them.
Inside, investigators found a trail of blood from the living room to the garage leading to the 55-year-old’s body and her eyes nearby inside a cardboard box, according to the newspaper. Handwritten notes also littered the garage with scrawlings about “clearing the soul,” officials said.
Balla confessed to authorities that she smoked marijuana laced either with flakka or PCP before the bloodbath.
“I’m a murderer, I’m a murderer,” the daughter, who had cuts on her hands, allegedly told officials.
Balla was arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder and booked at Palm Beach County Jail.
She appeared Monday in court where she was denied bond and removed when she began shouting in a foreign language, according to the Palm Beach Post.
“Whatever you may hear about this case, remember, until the state meets its burden, my client is innocent,” her attorney Jon Bull told the newspaper.