Doctors and friends of a woman charged with murdering her 2-year-old granddaughter say she suffered from depression that was worsening in the months before she tossed the toddler to her death last fall at Tysons Corner Center.
Carmela Dela Rosa is on trial in Fairfax County Circuit for the Nov. 29, 2010 death of Angelyn Ogdoc, whom she threw off a sixth-floor walkway at the mall.
Dela Rosa’s attorneys say she was legally insane when she killed her granddaughter. Relatives and longtime friends testified Thursday that Dela Rosa’s depression worsened when she learned her daughter was pregnant in 2008, and again last fall.
She tried to commit suicide by swallowing pills and later driving her car off the road, according to various testimony this week.
One cousin, Olga Achacoso, testified that Dela Rosa told her “I want to spare my family from the pain and suffering I’m bringing to them”.
Doctors who treated her after the pill overdose testified that she suffered from major depressive disorder.
