Mother of 3 Children Found Dead in Home Charged With Murder

Mother of 3 Children Found Dead in Home Charged With Murder
A police car parked in Calif., on Jan. 16, 2018. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
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LE GRAND, Calif.—The mother of three children found dead inside a central California home has been charged with murder, officials said Thursday.

Deputies doing a welfare check found the children, ages 8, 5, and 3, Wednesday in a Merced County apartment. They also found their mother, Patricia Ortiz, with what appeared to be self-inflicted wounds, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office said.