A New Jersey mother is facing murder charges in the deaths of her two children, who prosecutors say were both found drowned and one stabbed.
worked at a daycare earlier in the day, and told police she murdered her children for “religious purposes,” authorities said.
Mom who slit children’s throats and left them for dead on NYC sidewalk hit with 30 years-to-life sentence: DAElkins told police that she stabbed and “slightly punctured”one of her daughters with a knife before running a bath. According to Elkins, she went outside the family’s home to direct the first responders to her children, who were both found naked and wet.
During her interview with police, Elkins “ indicated that she knew that it was illegal to kill her children and that what she did was wrong,” the write-up noted. “Her family is well known in the community,” he said of Elkins. “As big as Lakewood gets, it is still a small town. When things like this happen, people go into their shell and don’t talk about it.”
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