A mother in Queens has been charged with murdering her 6-week-old twins.
25-year-old Danezja Kilpatrick revealed that she first tried to kill her babies with poisoned milk before scalding the girl with hot water and stabbing the boy in the head, prosecutors revealed.
Officers first found the body of her son inside a crib at Kilpatrick’s apartment in Woodside with a blade still stuck in his skull.
When police asked Kilpatrick about the girl, she showed that her daughter was under the sink. Police then found the girl wrapped in a pink blanket.
Prosecutors said that Kilpatrick, who has mental issues, confessed to police that she ‘didn’t want’ her children ‘anymore’ and had first tried poisoning them, according to The New York Daily News.
Queens Assistant District Attorney Adarna DeFrietas said the mother tried to poison the babies by mixing Pine-Sol household cleaner into their milk.
When her attempt failed, she put the girl face down in the tub and ran boiling water over her back until she stopped crying.
She then murdered the boy by putting him in his crib where she stabbed him in the neck.
The bodies of the babies were discovered after Kilpatrick’s sister called the police and requested a wellness check. Prosecutors said that it is possible the children had died several days earlier.
After Kilpatrick’s arrest, she had complained to police that the babies ‘wouldn’t let me sleep.’
“I just gave up and stopped caring. I didn’t care about the babies, that’s why I poisoned them,” she said.
She also told officers that she didn’t know the children’s father and that she was the only one taking care of the twins.
But her sister, 39-year-old Quanteya, disputed her claims and told officers that she had been visiting them to help her out with the babies.
Kilpatrick has been charged with two counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child, two counts of murder, and one count of criminal possession of a weapon.
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