A Hays County woman was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole for the grisly murder of her 5-year-old daughter in 2017.

Krystle Villanueva, 27, was found guilty Wednesday after a two-week trial of capital murder of a child under 10 and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

According to previous reports, police were called to Villanueva's Kyle residence near the 200 block of Willow Terrace on Jan. 5, 2017 after she attacked her father-in-law Eustorgio Arellano, who called the police saying Villanueva attacked him without warning, stabbing him in the back and head before he was able to run from the home.

SWAT was called after authorities learned that Villanueva's 5-year-old daughter, Giovanna Larae Hernandez, was still in the house with her. From inside the house, Villanueva called 911 and said she had killed Hernandez because she "asked for cereal," the Hays County District Attorney's Office said in a news release.

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