Tenia Campbell pleaded guilty to killing her 2-year-old twin daughters by suffocating them with her bare hands on Long Island, NY.
The double crime occurred in June 2019, when the mother was 24 years old and lived in Medford. After admitting guilt she is expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison next month, said Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney it’s a statement.
On June 27, 2019, Campbell had suicidal thoughts while driving a minivan with her twins Jasmine and Jaida to the east end of Long Island. Then he stopped the car under a tree at the entrance to the Montauk County Park Third House Nature Center, recalled NBC News.
The accused had a history of depression and anxiety and they diagnosed him with Bipolar disorder when he was a teenager, his mother, Vanessa McQueen, said then.
That day Campbell’s mother had called 911 to express concern for the twins, saying that her daughter had threatened to kill them and herself. Authorities began a search that included local and state police, park rangers and the Coast Guard.
Campbell was connected to a call between her mother and authorities, but did not reveal her location. His cell phone signals were used to help locate the trio.
Approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes after Campbell’s mother first called, East Hampton Town Police officers saw the minivan and confirmed that the woman was there with the babies. She then got out of the minivan, walked to a nearby road and told an officer to “shoot him.”
“The officer approached the truck and saw Campbell’s two-year-old twin daughters dead in their car seats,” the Suffolk County office said in its latest statement, released Monday. “Campbell later admitted to smothering the girls to death.”
In a July 10, 2019 statement, the county medical examiner concluded that the twins had died of “homicidal violence consistent with manual asphyxiation.”
Campbell had her Facebook page full of photos of her children: the twins and a then 4-year-old male born from a previous relationship.
Every day in New York City, on average, about 747 incidents of domestic violence, including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse, and about 65 homicides annually.
In late November, a Latino teenager was arrested in the Bronx on suspicion of killing three relatives in a home in the Bronx, including his father and little brother. The same day, a 23-year-old man was arrested and accused of shooting his parents and older brother to death inside his home in New Jersey.
At the end of September a woman was stabbed to death by her brother in Brooklyn (NYC) and he himself called 911 to report the crime. Days earlier, a Latina mother, her daughter, and her dog were found dead in an apparent case of homicide-suicide at another home in Brooklyn. And a woman was stabbed to death by her boyfriend along with her children in an apartment in The Bronx (NYC).
At the end of August, a Hispanic man stabbed his partner and two babies to death, and then himself, inside the apartment he had assigned as “super” in a building in the Upper West Side they Manhattan (NYC).
In October of last year a man fatally shot his mother and wife and then drove more than 12 miles to a shooting range in Newstead, NY, where he killed his father and then himself.
In July 2022, a 36-year-old Hispanic mother took her own life after killing her three children in her home in the Danbury town of Connecticut.
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2023-12-16 13:21:00
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