{"id":381493,"date":"2026-07-01T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381493\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:16:08","slug":"father-of-placentia-child-killed-allegedly-by-mother-breaks-silence-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381493\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of Placentia child killed allegedly by mother breaks silence \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father of a 2-year-old boy who was killed allegedly by his own mother<\/a> says he hopes the woman will be sentenced to the maximum penalty, he told NBCLA in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n

L.J., who preferred not to disclose his full name out of privacy reasons, said he wakes up every day hoping what he witnessed and has experienced the past year is just a bad dream. He said he believed his 2-year-old son, Aidan, was napping in another room the night of Sept. 22, 2025. Instead, L.J. made a horrific discovery in the bathroom of the family\u2019s Placentia home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just knocking on the door like, \u2018Are you still in there?\u2019 Didn\u2019t respond,\u201d L.J. said as he recounted checking on their child\u2019s mother, 41-year-old Melissa Lynn Beisel of Fresno.<\/p>\n

Beisel was found in the bathroom with superficial stab wounds to her neck and arms, according to law enforcement. Aidan was found with her, unresponsive.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was sitting down in the shower, back against the wall with him on top of her,\u201d L.J. said. \u201cI reach in, grab his arm like, \u2018Come on, Aidan. Let\u2019s go.\u2019 It hit pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigators said Beisel never called police. The District Attorney’s office said the L.J. called 911 after finding the boy\u2019s mother in the shower with their dead toddler. Prosecutors said the case was initially investigated as an alleged drowning<\/a> but eight months later, Beisel was arrested in Fresno on suspicion of murder and assault on a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what set her off,\u201d L.J. said. \u201cI have a million \u2018Why\u2019 questions but I\u2019m probably not going to get answers to any one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to L.J., Aidan was an energetic child full of life. He enjoyed running around and taking trips to the park. Now, as L.J. seeks justice for his little boy, he said he hopes the court will penalize Beisel to the maximum.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat she\u2019s convicted and has the maximum amount of anything they can throw at her,\u201d L.J. said. \u201cShe does not belong out in public society. Lock her up and throw away the key.\u201d<\/p>\n

If convicted, Beisel faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the woman appeared in court, where she did not enter a plea in connection with the case. She is being held behind bars without bail and is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 28.<\/p>\n

Beisel\u2019s attorney said they had no public comment following Tuesday\u2019s court appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of a 2-year-old boy who was killed allegedly by his own mother says he hopes the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,611,2463],"class_list":["post-381493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-orange-county","tag-placentia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}