MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Nine-year-old Alejandro Ripley is dead. And in a sinister twist, detectives are accusing his mother, Patricia Ripley, of killing him,News 6 sister station WPLG reports.
A day after she told police officers two men had abducted her son, the 45-year-old mother arrived at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center to face charges of first-degree murder and attempted premeditated murder.
She is being held on Saturday without bond. “He was the world to his parents,” said Antoinette Uribe, who knows the Ripley family since Alejandro and her son were both patients of the My Kid Therapy Center in Country Walk.