California parents who decapitated 2 children, forced other kids to see bodies learn sentence

A brace of California parents were sentenced Monday to aggregate beingness sentences aft decapitating their 13-year-old girl and 12-year-old son, past forcing their 2 younger children to look astatine the bodies.

Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 39, and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 49, were recovered blameworthy successful November of 2 felony counts of first-degree execution with peculiar circumstances aft fatally stabbing their 13-year-old daughter, Maliaka, and 12-year-old son, Maurice, wrong the family’s Lancaster location connected Nov. 29, 2020. 

The mates past forced their 2 younger sons, ages 8 and 9, to presumption their siblings’ beheaded bodies and stay confined successful their bedrooms without nutrient for respective days.

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Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 39, was convicted of 2 felony counts of first-degree execution with peculiar circumstances and 2 felony counts of kid maltreatment connected Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Youtube/ Law&Crime Network)

Firefighters recovered Maliaka and Maurice's bodies 5 days aft their deaths portion responding to a imaginable state leak, according to a study from FOX11 Los Angeles.

Officials with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office told the Los Angeles Times Taylor and Brothwell received the maximum sentence of 2 consecutive beingness presumption without the anticipation of parole, positive six years successful authorities prison.

Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 48, was convicted of 2 felony counts of first-degree execution with peculiar circumstances and 2 felony counts of kid maltreatment connected Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Pima County Sheriff's Office)

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The 2 younger children were placed nether a 10-year protective order, according to a study from KTLA.

Following the couple's conviction, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman called the killings a "monstrous enactment of cruelty."

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman called the killings "monstrous." (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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"Two guiltless children were brutally murdered, and their young brothers were near to unrecorded done unimaginable horror," Hochman wrote successful a statement.

Lancaster, Calif., is astir 70 miles northbound of downtown Los Angeles.