An 8-year-old girl so tiny that her mouth was hidden by the witness stand testified Wednesday that she saw her uncle stab her mother moments before he cut the girl's throat.

The child spoke briefly in Spanish through an interpreter about seeing Edgar Murga kill her mother at their east Oak Cliff home in June 2009.

When asked if she saw her uncle in the courtroom, the girl initially said she didn't. But as she glanced around, she quickly looked away when she looked in the direction of Murga, who is charged with capital murder in the slaying of his 32-year-old sister-in-law, Alma Arenas-Perez.

When Dallas County prosecutor Kendall Castello asked the girl how she felt when she saw her uncle stab her mother, the girl replied that she was "sad."

"He stuck it in here," the girl said, pointing to her chest. "In my mother's chest."

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