Forensicwx
Final Roll Call 4153. STLCO 10-42 10/13 @ 1519
"KIMA is looking deeper into the case of a Yakima mother accused of starving her twins. Police say the twin girls were first taken away from Kai Martinez at birth. She had them when she was 20. The girls are now eight and have been living with their mom only about a year.
"It would appear they were held in the house, so to speak, and not too many people knew that they were there,"....
Family members found the girls malnourished and called police. YPD removed them from the home on North 9th Street a few weeks ago. They were taken to a children's hospital in Seattle.
"It was still very obvious that they were malnourished," Det. Janis said. "They were in a state where you could see their bones through their skin."
Court records say the mother "advised she did not have a 'bond' with the girls and didn't feel a 'connection' with them." Police say Martinez has an older son and an infant as well. Neither showed signs of neglect or abuse.
Martinez is in jail on multiple counts of assault and criminal mistreatment. She has a lengthy criminal history, including drug use, assaulting an officer and possessing a stolen vehicle. All of this happened before the two girls were returned to her in 2013.
http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Ya...busing-twin-daughters-294128621.html?mobile=y
Apparently a year before these twins were born, she had another child that died.
"The girls weighed 40 pounds each when they were rescued. According to a police affidavit, a doctor said the girls should have weighed twice as much as they did. Police spokesman Mike Bastinelli says they were taken to a Seattle hospital but are now recovering with relatives.
The newspaper says an unspecified number of other children at the mother's home have been taken into protective custody.
According to reports, police said the two girls had been in foster care from birth until December 2013, when the state returned them to their mother.
One of the girl says her mother would try to "drown" her by placing the girl's head beneath a faucet and running water, the affidavit said. Her sister said her mom would place a pillow over her face, the affidavit said.
Both sisters said the saw the other twin abused, the affidavit said.
One girl said her mother hit her in the head with frozen chicken, which left a scar still visible, police said."
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/02/yakima_twin_girls_8_weighing_4.html
"It would appear they were held in the house, so to speak, and not too many people knew that they were there,"....
Family members found the girls malnourished and called police. YPD removed them from the home on North 9th Street a few weeks ago. They were taken to a children's hospital in Seattle.
"It was still very obvious that they were malnourished," Det. Janis said. "They were in a state where you could see their bones through their skin."
Court records say the mother "advised she did not have a 'bond' with the girls and didn't feel a 'connection' with them." Police say Martinez has an older son and an infant as well. Neither showed signs of neglect or abuse.
Martinez is in jail on multiple counts of assault and criminal mistreatment. She has a lengthy criminal history, including drug use, assaulting an officer and possessing a stolen vehicle. All of this happened before the two girls were returned to her in 2013.
http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Ya...busing-twin-daughters-294128621.html?mobile=y
Apparently a year before these twins were born, she had another child that died.
"The girls weighed 40 pounds each when they were rescued. According to a police affidavit, a doctor said the girls should have weighed twice as much as they did. Police spokesman Mike Bastinelli says they were taken to a Seattle hospital but are now recovering with relatives.
The newspaper says an unspecified number of other children at the mother's home have been taken into protective custody.
According to reports, police said the two girls had been in foster care from birth until December 2013, when the state returned them to their mother.
One of the girl says her mother would try to "drown" her by placing the girl's head beneath a faucet and running water, the affidavit said. Her sister said her mom would place a pillow over her face, the affidavit said.
Both sisters said the saw the other twin abused, the affidavit said.
One girl said her mother hit her in the head with frozen chicken, which left a scar still visible, police said."
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/02/yakima_twin_girls_8_weighing_4.html