A Henderson woman admitted to killing her two children and agreed to a life without parole prison sentence in a Thursday guilty plea.
Jovan Trevino, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, one for each of her children. She admitted to drowning Gihanna Fox, 1, and Christopher Fox III, 4, by holding their heads under water in 2021.
Prosecutors had planned to seek the death penalty against Trevino, who was scheduled to go to trial in July.
After being arrested at a hospital in Bullhead City, Arizona, where she checked herself in shortly after the murders, she told police that she drowned the children in separate bathtubs at her home in the 700 block of Calamus Palm Place, off Galleria Drive near Stufflebeam Avenue.
Trevino worked for Clark County as a family services assistant at the time of her arrest. Her duties included monitoring visitations and helping families apply for assistance, a county spokesperson previously said.
In a note before the killings, she described some of her struggles.
“The last few months became a serious mess of my life, so bad that I was facing suspension or dismissal at work, meaning leaving everything or near because who’s to say when I would have been employed again,” she wrote, the Las Vegas Review-Journal previously reported.
The month after her arrest, the county said she was no longer employed.
Police said in an arrest warrant that Trevino instructed her son to get in a bathtub face down, used one of her legs to keep him under the water and held his head down as fought to stay alive.
She then killed her second child.
Her sentencing is set for May 12.
Contact Noble Brigham at nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
