- Charity Lee’s son Paris Bennett, then 13, murdered 4-year-old Ella in 2007
- He sent the babysitter home and stabbed her to death to ‘punish’ his mother
- The mother from Texas has now released a book of her diary entries
- New detail reveals he sexually assaulted sister and watched porn before murder
A mother whose son murdered her four-year-old daughter when he was 13 has revealed how he has admitted to sexually assaulting her before the gruesome attack, in shocking new detail.
Charity Lee, from Abilene, Texas, was at her waitressing job on February 5, 2007, when police arrived to tell her her four-year-old daughter Ella was dead.
The young girl had been stabbed 17 times by her brother, Paris Bennett, who was just 13 at the time.
Paris picked up the knife and attacked his half-sister as she slept in her bed, after convincing their babysitter to go home. He then called 911 and admitted to the killing, later claiming he wanted to ‘punish his mother’.
And in Charity’s new memoir, ‘How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir Of Murder, Survival, and Transformation’, which was released on Tuesday, the heartbroken mother reveals how he went on to confess to watching ‘hours of violent porn’, before sexually molesting his sister and stabbing her to death.
Charity Lee, left, whose son murdered her four-year-old daughter when he was 13 has revealed how he admitted to sexually assaulting her before the killing. He is seen right before the attack
A newly released extract from a September 2010 diary entry, published by the New York Post, reveals how she confronted him after finding porn entries on their internet history, and hearing how there was semen found on the bed and on Ella’s body.
It later emerged he murdered his sister to cover up the sexual abuse that took place that evening.