Adoptee Kills Adoptive Mother in Utah
This is a 2025 case.
Mihaela Gabriela Sorescu, also known as Bella Sorescu, 16, was adopted by Andreea Mottram, a social worker and co-founder of disability and refugee aid associations in the U.S. and Romania, including the Chicago-based American Romanian Coalition for Human and Equal Rights (ARCHER), and a leading advocacy and aid group for autistic individuals in Romania.
[I do not know if Bella was adopted in Romania or not. She has a Romanian last name and her mother was Romanian, but I cannot find an article that says where she was adopted from. What I do know is that adoptions from Romania supposedly were forbidden after 2004.So, who knows these days?
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“Bella is listed as being enrolled in a “residential treatment facility,” where she had been staying for three years, according to the affidavit. [Oh! Interesting!
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Jay [Abigael Flanagan] ,17, had also been at a residential treatment facility before being removed by their parents, according to the affidavit. It wasn’t clear if the two had been admitted at the same facility.
Investigators learned Bella and Jay were staying with Mottram at a rental at the time of the killing.
At the crime scene, responding officers found several items, including two cell phones and a purse in the toilet, several knives and a “crumpled up” pair of pants with blood spots, per the affidavit.
A car rented by Mottram on March 20 was also missing from the location, per police. The teenagers are accused of fleeing in the car.”
[People 4/7/25 by Samira Asma-Sadeque]
“The body of the 47-year-old Andreea Mottram was discovered on March 23,[2025] inside a home in the Sendera at Sierra Hills community after having been stabbed 14 times.”
“Newly released evidence showed how Sorescu’s father told police that in November he had found his daughter’s diary in which she had written “how much she hated her mother and wrote that she wanted to kill her.””
“During a search of the home where Mottram was found, phones were located in the toilet that belonged to Sorescu and Flanagan, along with an ID inside a purse. A detective said those items “appear to have been placed in the toilet and attempted to be flushed in an effort to conceal evidence and/or delay apprehension.”
Evidence technicians also located several knives inside the home, including one in the sink that had been washed off but had “trace amounts of blood,” according to court documents. Pants discovered in the home also had blood on both legs as well as a “bloody imprint of a knife blade.” Detectives wrote that due to the size of the pants, it is believed they belonged to Sorescu.”
“The teenagers were later found in Los Angeles County and extradited back to Utah.”
Victim’s daughter identified as one of teen girls charged with murder inside Washington City rental home
[Fox 13 4/9/25 by Jeff Tavos]
“The pair were charged as adults with first-degree murder and details of the crime were revealed in documents at the Fifth Circuit Court.”
“Sorescu had been at the residential treatment facility in Washington County for the past three years and Flanagan for one year until she was recently taken out of it by their parents.
What they were being treated for is unclear, but Mottram was a passionate autism campaigner, both in the US and her native Romania, after both her biological sons were diagnosed with the condition.
Flanagan went with Mottram to visit Sorescu and was staying with her at the rented holiday home. How Flanagan knew the family is so far unclear.”
Adopted girl, 16, hatched evil plot in her diary last year…and now she’s ‘carried it out’
[Daily Mail 4/8/25 by Nic White]
How many Residential Treatment Centers are in Washington County, Utah? 11
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