A mother has been imprisoned after she contacted the authorities to confess she had fatally stabbed her young son inside a motel room following their trip to Disneyland.

Saritha Ramaraju, 48, faces charges for allegedly killing her 11-year-old son in Santa Ana on March 19, as reported by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

They had just returned from Disneyland, having spent three days there during a custody visit, and were preparing to check out of the motel to return the child to his father.

Police officers place Saritha Ramaraju in handcuffs after she called 911 to tell authorities she had murdered her 11-year-old son in Santa Ana, California on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.  (Santa Ana Police Department)

Body camera footage shows Ramarjau calmly approaching authorities outside the motel room. As she is placed in handcuffs, one of the officers can be heard saying, “She has blood on her hands.” 

The child was pronounced dead at the scene and Ramaraju was taken to a nearby hospital. She was later arrested, charged with murder, torture, child endangerment and aggravated mayhem, and ordered to be held without bail. 

Disneyland Resort Hotels directed Fox News Digital to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“The safest place for a child should be in their parents’ arms,” Spitzer said. “Instead of wrapping her arms around their son in love, she slit his throat and in the cruelest twist of fate removed him from the very world she brought him into.”