Judge sentences Nevada mom for drowning young son, daughter: 'I will remember your case forever'

A national justice sentenced a Las Vegas parent to beingness successful situation connected Tuesday aft she pleaded blameworthy to drowning some of her children successful bathtubs successful 2021.

Jovan Trevino, 38, apologized for her actions earlier the sentencing, saying she was not successful her "right mind" astatine the clip of the murders. Police successful Henderson, Nevada, recovered Trevino's 2 children, Christopher Fox, 4, and Gihanna Fox, 1, dormant wrong the family's location successful July 2021.

"On Monday July 19, 2021, my babies’ precious, guiltless lives were taken astatine the hands of their mommy," Trevino told District Judge Carli Kierny, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"I genuinely was not successful the close mind, successful the darkest spot that I’ve ever been, which is evident by the horrific transgression that I did commit," she added.

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Jovan Trevino, who pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of first-degree murder, 1 for each of her children, blows a buss to her brothers, who came to present their unfortunate interaction statements, arsenic she is led retired of a courtroom aft her sentencing astatine the Regional Justice Center, connected Tuesday, May 12, 2026, successful Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

While handing down the beingness sentence, Kierny had a connection for Trevino.

"I cognize that arsenic you unrecorded retired the remainder of your beingness successful a jailhouse cell, you'll astir apt spot them astatine night, you'll deliberation of them," she said. "That's truly the lone tribute near that you tin springiness them astatine this point." 

Kierny added: "I volition retrieve your lawsuit forever."

A motion for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is seen extracurricular of the office successful Las Vegas, Nevada  on Oct. 4, 2025. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani called the murders an "unforgivable crime."

"This is 1 of the astir utmost cases of matricide that I’ve seen successful my 15-year career," Giordani said during proceedings.

Police said that Trevino told officers that she had drugged herself with a sleeping assistance and intoxicant earlier carrying retired the murders.

The children’s father, Christopher Fox, and their grandmother, Shawna Fox, besides testified earlier the tribunal anterior to Trevino's sentencing.

"The cruelty of what you did by leaving them floating dormant successful their bathtubs for their daddy to find them erstwhile helium got location from enactment is unthinkable," Shawna Fox said.

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"I just privation the courts to retrieve my kids arsenic joyous loving children. Nothing else," Christopher Fox said.