Liang Zhao told police his 5-year-old daughter walked out of the family restaurant and never came back. Now, his wife, Mingming Chen, admits that never happened.
The Ohio father said his daughter, Ashley Zhao, was taking a nap at Ang's Asian Cuisine while he was working, but she was gone when he checked on her, as previously reported by Dearly.
Police searched for the missing child who was found dead inside the restaurant she claimed she vanished from. The found her body hidden away before a full day had passed.
Police discovered the child's mother repeatedly punched in the head before her father discovered the badly beaten child. Zhao cleaned the “green fluid” coming out of his daughter's mouth, but she wasn't breathing and it was too late to save her so he hid
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You said, 'I don't have nothing left.' Isn't that what you told me? You don't have no tears left, you don't have nothing left. Ming, Ming, your daughter is dead."
Chen repeatedly denied killing her daughter, but she finally admitted she went into a rage and beat her daughter to death in the family home.
The mother said "Yes. Use your hand to do that, okay" when she was asked if she hit Ashley. She also told the detective her husband moved their dead daughter's body from the their home to their restaurant:
"I told my husband to take care of it."
Chen claimed her daughter became disobedient after spending time in China with her paternal grandparents before she beat Ashley to death. She also blamed being overwhelmed at work for the murder:
"I need to take care of everything from the restaurant. I only have two hands. I'm not four hands girl, I'm two hands. I don't want to do that to Ashley, but you can't control yourself