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A Casa Grande lady is being held by police for murdering her 13-year-old daughter and attempting to poison her three kids and stab her ex-husband on Christmas Day.

Connie Villa, 35, has been booked under one count of first degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. The lady apparently forced her kids, aged 3, 5, 8 and 13 to take "prescription narcotic drugs in an attempt to kill them" on Christmas Day, police revealed.

Cops found Aniarael Macias, 13, dead in the bathroom of her family's home on Christmas morning.

Authorities were informed. on Wednesday night, Dec. 25 after the woman's ex-husband, Adam Villa, 33, called police and said that he had been stabbed by his ex-wife. He told police he was driving himself to the Casa Grande Regional Medical Center.

Officers rushed into the apartment and found the woman holding a knife to her chest and was bleeding. The woman's three other children were standing unharmed at her side.

Authorities secured the crime scene and rushed the mother and children to Phoenix-area hospitals. The three children each had "trace amounts" of opiates in their systems, revealed reports.

Sunday afternoon, Casa Grande police said the children were in "good condition" and Child Protective Services placed them with the family of Adam Villa. Adam is stable at a Phoenix hospital.

AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury