Dr. Neha Gupta, a pediatrician from Oklahoma, was arrested on Monday and faces a first-degree murder charge. She is accused of smothering her daughter, Aria Talathi, to death and attempting to cover it up as a drowning, the sheriff's office said in a press release on Wednesday.

A pediatrician from Oklahoma is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of her 4-year-old daughter in South Florida — a case Miami-Dade detectives now say involved a staged drowning and signs of “asphyxiation by smothering.