A New York woman Tenia Campbell, who is 24, was arrested after her young daughters, Jasmine and Jaida, were found suffering from cardiac arrest in the back of her car.
She was arrested immediately at the scene. This happened after a frantic police search spanning more than 50 miles.
Apparently this began when her the grandmother of the two little girls , Vanessa McQueen, called the emergency line telling the police that her daughter Tenia had threatened to fatally injure herself and her daughters.
Campbell appeared in court Ashamed and covering her face. She had nothing to say following her arraignment.
The grandmother told the authorities that her daughter admitted to the fatal injuries of the toddlers and said that she did it 'with her bare hands'.
Campbell reportedly told her mother: 'I ki**ed my babies and now I have to be with them.'
McQueen, who is 48, adds: 'At one point she said that
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she was going to find the ocean and walk into it and drown so that she could be with her babies in Heaven.
'She was diagnosed with bi-polar, which is a mental disorder as a teenager and she has been battling depression and anxiety her whole life.
'I tried so hard to help my daughter Tenia. I love her so much but she has a mental disorder and there was just no talking to her today.'
The police commissioner Geraldine Hart said at a press conference: 'Tenia had parked her car near the entrance of the park, walked to Montauk Highway and started screaming at responding officers to shoot her.
'Tenia, who was at times hysterical, wouldn’t say her whereabouts. During the conversation, Tenia indicated that the girls were already deceased.'
The county executive said : 'This was something that you cannot be prepared for, a scene that you cannot imagine.'
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