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Mother Arrested Following 4-Year-Old’s Death, Police Say

EL PORTAL, FLORIDA, JUL 2 – Dr. Neha Gupta faces first-degree murder charges after allegedly smothering her daughter and staging the death as a drowning amid a custody dispute, Miami-Dade officials said.

  • Dr. Neha Gupta, a 36-year-old pediatrician from Oklahoma City, was taken into custody on Tuesday following the drowning of her 4-year-old daughter at a short-term rental property in El Portal, Florida, on June 27.
  • The arrest followed a weeks-long investigation in which Florida law enforcement obtained a first-degree murder warrant as Gupta traveled back to Oklahoma and awaits extradition to Miami-Dade County.
  • Police arrived around 4:30 a.m. in response to a 911 call about a child found unresponsive in a pool at a vacation rental, and emergency personnel transported the girl to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she was later declared deceased.
  • Gupta's attorney called the death a "horrible accident," while authorities emphasized that even brief unsupervised moments near water risk drowning, consistent with the state's highest national under-5 drowning rate and a recent third drowning in three weeks.
  • The case highlights ongoing local calls for vigilant child supervision near water, as Gupta awaits formal murder charges and a July 17 court date concerning related child neglect.
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Pediatrician allegedly smothered 4-year-old daughter, staged death as drowning: Police

Dr. Neha Gupta, a pediatrician from Oklahoma, was arrested on Monday and faces a first-degree murder charge. She is accused of smothering her daughter, Aria Talathi, to death and attempting to cover it up as a drowning, the sheriff's office…

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A Oklahoma doctor is accused of traveling to South Florida and simulating the death of her four-year-old daughter to make it look like she drowned in the middle of the night in the pool of a rented vacation home, detectives say. 36-year-old pediatrician Dr. Neha Gupta was admitted Tuesday to Oklahoma County Prison, in the city of the same name. She is charged with premeditated homicide in Miami-Dade County, according to an arrest warrant. Gupta …

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