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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Hours after geting restraining order... Rio Claro mom hacked to death

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A moth­er of two was killed by a close male rel­a­tive yes­ter­day, hours af­ter she ob­tained a re­strain­ing or­der against the man in the Ma­yaro Mag­is­trates Court.Po­lice said Or­pha Prescil­la Hack­ett, 24, of Union Vil­lage, Rio Claro, was chopped sev­er­al times about the body by the man, who at­tacked her as she was vis­it­ing her sis­ter in Ma­yaro.How­ev­er, wit­ness­es even­tu­al­ly held the man and called in the po­lice, who ar­rest­ed him and seized the weapons used in the killing. The man was de­tained at the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion last night.

Po­lice said Hack­ett, the moth­er of a girl, 4 and boy, 2, had re­ceived a three-year re­strain­ing or­der against the man in the court ear­li­er in the day af­ter end­ing an abu­sive re­la­tion­ship with him. She then went to vis­it her sis­ter.Around 1.50 pm, how­ev­er, wit­ness­es claimed to have seen the man buy­ing two knives and a cut­lass at a near­by hard­ware. He then went to the St Ann's Vil­lage, Ma­yaro, home of Hack­ett's sis­ter and at­tacked and killed her.


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