Overview
- Police say 32-year-old Francis Cabello called 911 on October 14 saying “I killed my daughter,” and officers found five-year-old Fabiana unresponsive at the Richmond Hill home before she was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital.
- Cabello was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and remains in custody while prosecutors prepare the case.
- A criminal complaint and early autopsy report record scrapes on Fabiana’s face and petechiae in her eyes, heart and lungs, which medical sources say are signs that can be linked to asphyxia but are not by themselves a final cause of death.
- Relatives have told reporters that Cabello had a history of psychiatric treatment and sometimes stopped taking medication, details that prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to examine in pretrial proceedings.
- Fabiana’s father has started a verified GoFundMe that has raised most of an $18,000 goal for funeral costs and the family is publicly grieving as the OCME’s official findings and toxicology results, which will shape the legal case, remain pending.