--- description: New video shows Ming Ming Chen, who was recently convicted of killing her 5-year-old daughter, confessing to beating the girl. title: VIDEO: Mother Calmly Confesses to Killing Her Daughter, 5 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a485c925ae82952/6988f6e3ab6d77142a6b132b/mingming-chen-guilty.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Crime](/tag/crime/) ## Crime Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 'I Told My Husband to Take Care of It.' Mother Admits Killing 5-Year-Old Daughter on Video by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 3, 2018 4:36 PM CUT  Mingming Chen, right, attends a hearing where her defense attorney argued that a police interview in which Chen acknowledged killing her 5-year-old daughter should be excluded from the Chinese woman's murder trial because a translator wasn't present, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, in Stark County Common Pleas Court in Canton, Ohio. Mingming Chen, right, attends a hearing where her defense attorney argued that a police interview in which Chen acknowledged killing her 5-year-old daughter should be excluded from the Chinese woman's murder trial because a translator wasn't present, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, in Stark County Common Pleas Court in Canton, Ohio.Michael Balash—The Canton Repository/AP by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 3, 2018 4:36 PM CUT A newly released video shows an Ohio mother calmly confessing to beating her 5-year-old daughter to death after the girl’s body was found hidden in the family’s restaurant. “I just killed her and then she died,” Ming Ming Chen, 30, said in the police video, which was obtained by [Fox 8 Cleveland](http://fox8.com/2018/01/01/chilling-video-shows-north-canton-mother-confessing-to-killing-5-year-old-daughter/ "undefined"). “I told my husband to take care of it.” Chen was sentenced to 22 years in prison last week after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges in her daughter [Ashley Zhao’s](http://time.com/4631229/missing-ohio-girl-dead-restaurant/ "undefined") death last year, according to the [Associated Press](http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FMISSING%5FDAUGHTER%5FFOUND%5FDEAD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-11-01-56-32 "undefined").  Ashley Zhao Jackson Township Police Department Chen, who ran Ang’s Asian Cuisine in North Canton with her husband, said she was overwhelmed with work and was frustrated with how disobedient her daughter had become after living with her grandparents, according to Fox 8. “I need to take care of everything from the restaurant. I only have two hands,” Chen told investigators. “I don’t want to do that to Ashley, but you can’t control yourself sometimes.”  Ming Ming Chen (left) and Liang Zhao Stark County Sheriff Chen and her husband, Liang Zhao, were charged in connection to their daughter’s death last January. The parents had first reported Ashley Zhao missing, but police said they later found the girl’s body “concealed” inside the family’s restaurant. Chen, who is in the U.S. illegally, will be deported to her homeland of China after prison, the AP reports. 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