Otter Tail County Jail
An Otter Tail County woman is accused of murder for allegedly killing her 3-year-old daughter.
Charging documents say police arrived at 27-year-old Suad Mohamed Ali’s Pelican Rapids home Monday night to find the girl lying unresponsive on the living room floor.
Ali was sitting on the couch, and a family member was kneeling over the child, shouting at her.
The documents say Ali said she placed her hand over her child’s mouth and suffocated her after crying. The girl was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
During an interview at the Otter Tail County detention facility, Ali said the child’s father had abandoned them, and she was raising her daughter with her mother.
She said her daughter was crying for food. Ali said her mother usually fed her, but she was not there at the time.
The criminal complaint states that Ali admitted she “killed her.”
Ali faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder.