By Jim Walsh

The Arizona Republic

wed, november 3, 1999

'Then I offered her to GOD'

Insane mother's confession in murder of child


Just before Barbara Downey shot her
daughter in a twisted sacrifice to God, she
placed the 6-year-old face down on a baby
blanket in the desert and asked if she
wanted to go to heaven.

"Mommy, I want to go to heaven," she
recalled the girt as saying, "but don't kill me."

"I said, 'OK, I love you, baby.' She said, 'I
love you,' and I shot her," Downey said in a
statement to investigators made a day after
the May 12, 1998, slaying near Apache
Junction.

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