Mother charged with strangling daughter, 5, with breathing tube to death
Shekina Akbar's daughter had 'bruising throughout her body' and 'visible injuries to her neck.'
A mother has been accused of strangling her five-year-old daughter who required a breathing tube to death.
Shekina Akbar, 30, was arrested and charged with murder, aggravated assault and child cruelty for allegedly killing her daughter, who has not been named, in Marietta, Georgia.
Akbar was arrested on Monday morning after her daughter was found unresponsive at her Cumberland Crossing Apartments.
The girl was rushed to the Kennestone Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
Akbar’s neighbor, Phyllis Lee told 11 Alive that the girl had a breathing tube in her neck, but she never saw any signs that she had been beaten.
Lee said Akbar had just moved in to the apartment complex, so she invited her and her daughter to church on Saturday – but two days later, Akbar’s daughter was dead.
According to an arrest warrant, Akbar’s daughter had ‘bruising throughout her body’ and ‘visible injuries to her neck.’
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Akbar was booked into the Cobb County Jail on three felony charges on Monday, according to jail records.
According to her warrant, she can only be granted bond by a Cobb Superior Court Judge.
A friend of Akbar’s, Rashaunta Pruitt, told CBS46: ‘I just hope it was an accident or she tell the truth or whatever happened.’
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‘She was a loving person. She would give the shirt off her back to a person. She don’t have to know you. That don’t sit right with me. I don’t think she will harm her child or her kids. She always had her kids with her. She loved them.’
Pruitt added that Akbar also has a toddler son, although the boy was reportedly visiting relatives at the time of the alleged murder.