World News | Police Find 2 Dead Kids in Miami Apartment, Mother Arrested
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Police in Miami has arrested a 41-year-old woman in the deaths of her two children, aged three and five, after officers responded to repeated hang-up 911 calls from her apartment where they found their tied-up bodies.
Miami, Apr 13 (AP) Police in Miami has arrested a 41-year-old woman in the deaths of her two children, aged three and five, after officers responded to repeated hang-up 911 calls from her apartment where they found their tied-up bodies.
“Come get them, I don't want them anymore," Odette Lysse Joassaint told officers who responded to the scene on Tuesday night, according to the arrest report. Police said she appeared to be irrational.
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The officers entered the apartment and found a three-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl who were lying in a prone position on the bed with their arms, legs and neck tied, a police report said.
They tried to resuscitate the children until a Miami Fire Rescue crew arrived and pronounced them dead.
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The woman has been charged with two counts of murder.
Police have not said how many calls were made to 911 or whether she spoke to a dispatcher.
No other details were immediately released. (AP)
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