Florida mother arrested for murder after police find 2 children dead in Miami apartment
(Miami-Dade Corrections) MIAMI - Police in South Florida arrested a mother accused of murdering her two young children in their apartment after officers responded to repeated 911 hang-up calls coming from the home and found the bodies of both children tied up on a bed."Come get them, I don't want them anymore," 41-year-old Odette Lysse Joassaint told officers who responded to the scene on Tuesday night, according to the arrest report.
Police said she appeared to be irrational.The officers entered the apartment and found a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl.
The children were lying in a prone position on the bed with their arms, legs and neck tied, the police report said.RELATED: Police: 2 arrested after road rage incident leads to stabbing in LargoAccording to WSVN, the officers untied the children and tried to resuscitate them, but they were already dead. "Fire rescue was called to the scene and declared both children were deceased," police spokesperson Michael Vega told news outlets.Police have not said how many calls were made to 911 or whether she spoke to a dispatcher.Online arrest records show that Joassaint is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and is being held without bond.The victims' father, Frantzy Belval, told The Miami Herald that his children lived with Joassaint full time, and said they would normally visit him once a week on Saturdays.
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