A MOTHER tells a 911 operator that she just killed her three-year-old daughter in a chilling call released by investigators.
The 24-year-old woman gave sick details of her daughter's death when she called police on Tuesday morning.
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"I just killed my daughter," Jellisa Amoya Baxter told the operator in audio obtained by NBC Miami.
"I tried strangling her. That didn't work, so I stabbed her with a knife."
The three-year-old girl died after the tragedy unfolded in North Miami Beach, Florida, at around 2am on December 27.
When cops got to Baxter's apartment, they found the girl's body next to a knife, according to WESH.
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The child had suffered deep stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.
Baxter was taken into custody on Tuesday and made her first court appearance on Wednesday.
"She's sick," Baxter's stepfather Harold Hemmings told NBC6.
"That's all I can say, she's sick."
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Hemmings said that he saw Baxter with her daughter in September after her mother passed away from cancer.
"She didn't seem like a bad momma to me," said Hemmings.
He said he doesn't know why Baxter would have done this, adding: "You know, she seemed like she was a good mother."
Baxter was unemployed and received an eviction notice days before the stabbing, NBC6 reported citing public records.
Several neighbors confirmed that Baxter was struggling financially before the killing and that her water had been shut off, according to FOX13.
Baxter was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.
She also has an immigration detainer out of Jamaica, local media reported.
She's being held without bond, according to Law and Crime.
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