Florida girl forced to flee Ukraine accused of killing grandmother; Father blames war trauma for her “behavioral problems.”

A teenage girl's father blamed this War between Russia and Ukrainewhich forced her to leave her mother behind because his daughter had allegedly killed her grandmother in a gruesome way murder.

Sofia Koval recently moved Florida According to an arrest report obtained by NBC 6 South Florida, she had exhibited behavioral problems that her father believed were “due to the war she witnessed in Ukraine and the separation from her mother.” On the day of the murder, the teenager's father took her cell phone to punish her and then left.

Koval's father returned to find his mother unresponsive and with abrasions on her neck and bruises on her face, arms and legs, according to NBC 6. She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The teenage girl told her father she hit the victim “several times with a belt” in self-defense after her grandmother scratched her and then began sobbing. A redacted source suspected the girl also used her grandmother's walker to beat and kill her because the source noticed it was broken, NBC 6 reported.

The suspect was then admitted to the Fort Lauderdale Behavioral Health Center because police believed she was “suffering from a possible psychotic episode,” adding that she appeared “very agitated and appeared aggressive at times. Plus, she was constantly moving.”

On the way to the behavioral center, NBC 6 reported that Koval allegedly “spontaneously stated that she had killed her grandmother while her father was out of the apartment” and “slammed her hand against the partition in the vehicle, causing a laceration.”

Koval has been charged with manslaughter as an adult and is being held in the county jail without bail. If convicted, the teenager faces a maximum of 15 years in prison, but he could face a youth sentence.

“In the juvenile justice system, anyone found guilty and sentenced would have to be released after a maximum of three years and could only be kept under supervision in the community until the age of 21,” the prosecutor said. “Because she is not a U.S. citizen, she could face deportation.”