ATLANTA _ In grisly and heartbreaking detail, 9-year-old Diana Romero described watching her mother stab her brothers, sister and father before turning the knife on her.
Isabel Martinez, 33, told her daughter that she was going to the sky to see Jesus, according to a Georgia state child welfare report obtained Wednesday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The young girl cried and told her mother that she didn't want to go to see Jesus, according to the report by the state Division of Family and Childrens Services.
The child said that her father tried to stop the mother but couldn't.
The report includes a DFCS caseworker's notes on her interview with the child, who describes in horrid detail watching her mother slay her siblings and father in their Loganville home on July 6.
It also includes notes from an interview with Isabel Martinez _ who is sometimes referred to by different names, including Maria. In her discussion with the DFCS worker she denied killing her family and said an unnamed male friend came into their home and stabbed them.
Martinez said that before police arrived she placed all the bodies in the same room so they could be together.
She also said that in a weekend trip to Savannah just before the slayings she felt "a devil-like spirit" and said the waves at the beach were trying to take her children away.
Diana Romero was the lone survivor of the rampage.
Her father, 33, and four siblings _ 2-year-old Axel, 4-year-old Dillan, 7-year-old Dacota and 10-year-old Isabela Martinez _ were already dead when police arrived at the home. Martinez had called 911 at 4:47 a.m. requesting help.
In a subsequent court appearance Martinez exhibited bizarre behavior, smiling and giving cameras the thumbs-up sign.
