California Mother Charged with Murder of Disabled 9-Year-Old Daughter

Khadiyjah Aliyyah Pendergraph allegedly drowned her non-verbal, wheelchair-bound daughter in a bathtub, leaving her body to decompose for several days.

• Khadiyjah Aliyyah Pendergraph, a 32-year-old mother from California, has been charged with the murder of her 9-year-old daughter, Victoria, who was non-verbal and wheelchair-bound.
• Victoria's decomposing body was found in a bathtub in their shared apartment, and it is alleged that Pendergraph drowned her daughter and left her body there for several days.
• The girl's father, who is divorced from Pendergraph, called the police to report his daughter missing after receiving concerning messages from his ex-wife and finding the apartment locked and unresponsive when he went to pick up his daughter on Thanksgiving.
• Pendergraph was arrested in a grocery store parking lot in Aliso Viejo on the same day Victoria's body was discovered.
• If convicted, Pendergraph faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.

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