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.

Neha Gupta, a pediatrician from Oklahoma, was arrested over the death of her daughter in their Miami rental home. Her lawyer denied the charges as “absurd.”

An Oklahoma pediatrician was accused of murder after authorities said she staged her daughter’s accidental death at a vacation rental in suburban Miami, court records obtained Thursday show