Mum admits to smothering 2-year-old twin daughters to death before bodies were found in backseat.
A mum accused of smothering her
twin 2-year-old daughters to death has pleaded guilty, New York officials said.
Tenia Campbell’s mom called 911
in June 2019, saying her 28-year-old daughter was “driving around in the family
van and was threatening to kill her daughters,” according to a Dec. 13 news
release by the Suffolk County District Attorney.
Officers were dispatched to the
areas between Medford and Montauk looking for Campbell, officials said.
An East Hampton police officer
saw the van and Campbell outside it, the district attorney said.
Mum admits to smothering
2-year-old twin daughters to death before bodies were found in backseat.
When the officer went to the
van, the twins were found “dead in their car seats,” officials said. Campbell
later said she smothered them, officials said.
“This is such a sad and tragic
case. Those two little girls looked to this defendant, their mother, for
protection and love. Instead, she executed them,” District Attorney Raymond A.
Tierney said in the release. “The defendant has one thing those twin girls will
never have again: life. But now, this defendant will get to live out the majority
of her life behind bars.”
Mum admits to smothering
2-year-old twin daughters to death before bodies were found in backseat
Campbell pleaded guilty to two
counts of murder, officials said.
She is scheduled to go back to
court in January for a sentencing conference, the release said
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