True Crime with Rachel Shannon
They Left their Disabled Daughter in a Hot Car for 6 HOURS to MURDER her: Cristina Pangalangan
03 Apr 2025
Cristina Pangalangan was a 13 year old girl with cerebral palsy, a congenital disability that affected her ability to move and speak, requiring round the clock care. To most, Cristina was a sweet, unique, and smart young girl. However, to her so called "mother", she was just an inconvenience. This is what lead to her grueling, painful death. What are your thoughts on Cristina's case? Let's discuss in the comments. Thank you guys for watching, hope to see you next time!
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Hello everyone, my name is Rachel and welcome back to another true crime video. So the case that I have for you all today is yet another awful, tragic case that will make you so very sad and frustrated. When you hear the details of what this poor little girl went through, you will be just as angry as I am right now and when I found out about this case. Trust me.
Let's get into this truly awful case. Today, we're going to be discussing the death of Christina Pangalangan. Christina Pangalangan was born on March 28th, 2006 in Colleton County, South Carolina to Rita Frazier and Raphael Pangalangan, and she had two sisters, Ashley and Elizabeth.
Christina was born with cerebral palsy, which is a congenital disorder that is caused by damage to the brain that can happen before, during, or after birth. In some cases, the child has abnormal brain development in utero. Sometimes it's from a lack of oxygen to the brain during labor and delivery. Those are the two most common causes that I personally have seen in my healthcare job.
It can also be caused by infections that cause swelling and inflammation around the brain. either sustained as an infant, or even if the mother gets that kind of infection while pregnant, or it can be caused by a traumatic brain injury sustained as an infant from something like a car accident or physical abuse.
So, it's not necessarily a genetic or hereditary condition like a lot of people tend to believe. Obviously, your genes can contribute to it if you already have some genetic mutation that causes abnormal brain development, but it's not a gene that causes CP itself. More so, it can be a gene that causes some other brain development issue that can lead to the child having CP.
The most common symptoms of cerebral palsy, which is abbreviated to CP, most affect the person's motor development and speech. So the most common type of CP is spastic, which means that the person will have super rigid and stiff muscles and joints. Some have high tone or spasticity all throughout their bodies, while others may have very low tone and are very floppy and weak.
There are some very mild forms of CP, which will result in things like difficulty with normal gait, such as a super stiff leg on one side. But everything else, including speech and cognition, can be normal. Sometimes it can affect one side of the person's entire body. so they can have a super stiff left leg and a very weak left arm, for example.
Some people with CP, though, you might not even know it. Meanwhile, a lot of people with CP have what's called spastic quadriplegia, and I think this is what people mostly think of when they think of CP. That means that the person won't be able to move their arms or legs very purposefully. They usually cannot walk, so they rely on a wheelchair.
At least in my experience, these are the kids that usually don't have meaningful communication or speech. Usually they'll need help with pretty much everything, including feeding, transferring from bed to chair or couch or wherever, using the bathroom. And a lot of times they will have some sort of communication device that helps them portray what they want or need to their caregiver.
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