The girl died of asphyxiation and assault on Dec. 20 at her home in the 500 block of North Springfield Avenue. The mother, Marisol Vazquez, 37, told police she suffocated the child with a bed sheet and tried to drown herself in the bathtub.

A felony charge has been filed against a woman accused in the death of a 1-year-old girl on the city’s West Side last month. According to Chicago police, 37-year-old Marisol Vazquez, a Humboldt Park resident,

Marisol Vazquez, 37, allegedly confessed to suffocating her daughter, Lucia Arevala, and told detectives that voices in her head told her to kill herself and her daughter.

A Chicago woman was arrested for the murder of a 1-year-old girl in the city's Garfield Park neighborhood, authorities said.