Six-week old twin babies died in their Queens apartment Thursday, and authorities are questioning their mother, police sources told the Daily News.
Police and medics found the children, Dakota and Dallas Bentley, inside the family’s Woodside Houses apartment on 51st St. just after 3 p.m.
“I do not want them,” the twins’ mother told arriving officers, a police source said.
Officers found the boy in a crib, lifeless with visible stab wounds, said NYPD Housing Bureau Chief David Barrere.
“Officers questioned the mother about the second baby, and she pointed towards the sink,” Barrere said. “Officers discovered a second child, under the sink area, wrapped in a blanket. It was also unconscious and unresponsive.”
Sources said the girl was discovered in a cabinet.
Both children were declared dead at the scene.
Police recovered a knife in the apartment, Barrere said.
Police went to the home after a concerned relative called 911. The relative had spoken to the childrens’ mother and became worried about the twins, Barrere said.
The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, but at least one of the children looked discolored, sources said. The deaths are considered suspicious.
The 23-year-old mother is being questioned at the 114th Precinct.
Six-week-old twins, a boy and a girl, found dead in Queens apartment; mother under police questioning
The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner. The deaths are considered suspicious, police sources said.
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