Police: Gilroy mother admits to drowning 2-year-old daughter

Police said a mother in Gilroy called to tell them she drowned her daughter in a bathtub Sunday.

Officers got the call at about 11:30 a.m. Police said the woman told them she drowned the 2-year-old at a home in the 7900 block of Westwood Drive.

When police got to the scene, they said the girl was lifeless in a bathtub filled with water. Officers and firefighters tried to save her life, but she was pronounced dead at Saint Louise Regional Hospital.

An officer found the girl’s mother, 35-year-old Marcie Montelongo, near Miller Avenue and First Street, and police said she told the officer she had just killed her daughter. Montelongo was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on murder charges.

Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Chris Silva at 408-846-0335.