Escort, who live-streamed her mother’s murder on Facebook, pleads insanity

A former California escort who stabbed her mother to death while live-streaming the incident on Facebook has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Tonantzyn Oris Beltran, 29, added the insanity plea to her original not guilty plea during a court appearance Thursday.

Beltran is charged with the January murder of her mother, Olivia Lucia Beltran Pacheco, a respected community activist in Marin County. She violently stabbed Pacheco, 55, on her balcony in San Rafael and was found “standing next to a stabbed female victim with a knife in her hand and wearing blood-soaked clothing,” cops said.

Viewers who saw the livestream before it was taken down reported the situation to San Rafael police. Officers burst through the front door after Beltran refused to respond.

Pacheco was still alive when officers handcuffed her daughter, but died shortly afterwards at a local hospital.

Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard, who is presiding over Beltran’s case, ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she meets the legal requirements to be considered mentally ill, according to the Mercury News.

If she is found to be mentally ill, Beltran will be committed to a state hospital or psychiatric treatment facility.

On the day she livestreamed her mother’s murder, Beltran had gone to the Santa Rose police station to pick up her impounded car, where officers there noticed she looked like she had, according to a since-deleted TikTok video “some mental health issues.” Posted by daughter.

In another video she posted the same day, Pacheco could be seen begging her Beltran to calm down as she became increasingly unhinged.

“You have to stop hurting yourself and putting yourself in danger,” the mother reportedly told her.

According to the Mercury News, Beltran also has a history of drug and alcohol abuse that has continued since she tried her first drink at age four.

“Drugs gave me escape, relief, false happiness, they were like a bandage to self-medicate,” she said, according to the outlet.

“I was homeless for a while because I felt a lot of hatred towards my mother. I didn’t know where that came from. But I couldn’t change that feeling, even though she seemed like a saint and always loved me very much.”

Beltran’s next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 12.