Francis Cabello

Introduction

Francis Cabello, a Queens mother named by the New York Post through law-enforcement sources and family, was reported arrested on Thursday, October 15, 2026, after her 5-year-old daughter, Fabiana Cabello, died at Jamaica Hospital the night before; charges are pending. Police sources told the Post that Cabello called 911 herself on the evening of October 14 and told the dispatcher, “I killed my daughter,” and that when officers reached the family’s South Richmond Hill home she told them, “She’s upstairs not breathing.” The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the girl’s cause of death, and the NYPD is investigating the case as a homicide.

Background Information

The family lived on 110th Street in Richmond Hill, in a two-story home where Fabiana’s grandfather, Franklin Cabello — whom the Post identified as her father — was home on the night of her death. He told the Post that Francis had long struggled with her mental health, had been hospitalized about three months earlier, and had recently stopped taking her medication, telling him the doctor had authorized her to stop; “I knew mentally she wasn’t 100% there,” he said. Neighbors remembered Fabiana as a happy 5-year-old who spent the summer outside, riding her bicycle and scooter with the other children on the block.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Arrested; charges pending. Cabello is accused by law-enforcement sources of killing her 5-year-old daughter — an account that began with her own 911 call. No charges have been filed, the medical examiner has not ruled on a cause of death, and nothing has been tested in court: the NYPD calls the case a homicide investigation, and Cabello, who has a documented mental-health history, is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Police and EMS reached the 110th Street home shortly before 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, after Cabello’s 911 call, and found her downstairs, outside the apartment; upstairs, in a bedroom with the door closed, they found Fabiana unresponsive and bleeding from her nose and mouth. The girl was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she died just before 7:30 p.m. Relatives said the first sign that something had gone terribly wrong came when police and EMS stormed into the apartment; Fabiana had shut herself in her room, and her grandfather said the family “saw nothing.”

The Post reported that Cabello was arrested and was being questioned by police late Thursday, with charges pending, citing law-enforcement sources on her confessed 911 call. The evening’s coverage conflicted on the arrest itself: WABC reported at 9 p.m. that the mother had instead been taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and that no arrests had been announced, while a separate report said she had been taken into custody and transported for medical and psychological evaluation. The NYPD’s homicide investigation remains active, and the medical examiner’s findings on cause and manner of death will shape what, if anything, Cabello is charged with.

Public Reaction and Consequences

“The family is distraught,” Franklin Cabello told the Post: “I wouldn’t say that she would be capable of doing damage to the child because she’s a mom that was protective over her kid. She was attentive. I never would have thought she would have done something like this.” He described keeping watch over his daughter as her mental health spiraled after she stopped her medication — urging her to keep taking it and doubting any doctor had authorized stopping “without seeing her.” Neighbors told WABC that Fabiana played outside all summer on the close-knit block: “Always happy,” one said. The death drew immediate local television coverage and a national write-up within a day, with the girl’s identity and her mother’s name carried across the coverage.

Current Status

Cabello was last reported in police custody being questioned, with charges pending; she has not been charged, arraigned, or tried, and every allegation against her is untested. The NYPD is investigating Fabiana’s death as a homicide, the medical examiner will determine the cause, and prosecutors have announced no charging decision. WABC reported the mother was taken for psychiatric evaluation, and its Thursday-night report still said no arrests had been announced — a discrepancy with the Post’s arrest account that is likely to resolve only when charges are filed.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Cabello had no public profile before this week: she was a private mother living with her family in Richmond Hill, and her name entered the public record through her daughter’s death and her own reported 911 call. The family’s home now sits behind police tape as the scene of a homicide investigation, and the question the case leaves open — how a mother recently hospitalized for her mental health came to stop taking her medication — now sits at the center of the inquiry into a 5-year-old’s death.

Sources

• NY Post, “Francis Cabello, who told 911 she killed 5-year-old daughter in NYC, had been ‘acting strange’ for months,” Oct 15, 2026 — source
• ABC7 Eyewitness News (WABC), “5-year-old Queens girl Fabiana Cabello dead, mother confessed in 911 call, NYPD says,” Oct 15, 2026 — source
• WFB News, “Mother Confesses to Killing Child Inside Queens Home,” Oct 15, 2026 — source