Sumanadevii
02-25-2008, 06:10 PM
The fathers of these children had been fighting the Division of Family Services for their children. Their voices were not heard...
NEW CASSEL -- Three young children found dead in the same bed after their mother called police claiming she killed them appeared to have been drowned, although one's throat was cut and all showed signs of possible poisoning, a homicide detective said Monday.
A medical examiner was conducting autopsies to determine an official cause in the deaths of the girl and two boys - ages 6, 5 and 1 - who were found by police after being called to a two-story apartment building in an impoverished neighborhood in New Cassel in central Nassau County.
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Lt. Michael Fleming, commander of the Nassau homicide squad, said Brewer called 911 shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday, telling an operator "that she killed her babies. She even spelled her name to the 911 operator."
The woman told the officers she had killed her children, then jumped out of her window and was locked out of the apartment, Fleming said.
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Brewer, who had six arrests - two felonies and four misdemeanors - on her record dating to 2000, was described by some as troubled, including two men who identified themselves as the children's fathers and said they had fought in vain to have the children removed from Brewer's custody.
"Whenever I tried to get my daughter, Family Court wouldn't let me," Jewell's father, Ricky Ward said. "The courts wouldn't hear me out. I blame this on Leatrice Brewer and Family Court."
Innocent Demesyeux, the father of the two little boys, told reporters he had been battling Brewer for custody for more than a year.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=5978071
NEW CASSEL -- Three young children found dead in the same bed after their mother called police claiming she killed them appeared to have been drowned, although one's throat was cut and all showed signs of possible poisoning, a homicide detective said Monday.
A medical examiner was conducting autopsies to determine an official cause in the deaths of the girl and two boys - ages 6, 5 and 1 - who were found by police after being called to a two-story apartment building in an impoverished neighborhood in New Cassel in central Nassau County.
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Lt. Michael Fleming, commander of the Nassau homicide squad, said Brewer called 911 shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday, telling an operator "that she killed her babies. She even spelled her name to the 911 operator."
The woman told the officers she had killed her children, then jumped out of her window and was locked out of the apartment, Fleming said.
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Brewer, who had six arrests - two felonies and four misdemeanors - on her record dating to 2000, was described by some as troubled, including two men who identified themselves as the children's fathers and said they had fought in vain to have the children removed from Brewer's custody.
"Whenever I tried to get my daughter, Family Court wouldn't let me," Jewell's father, Ricky Ward said. "The courts wouldn't hear me out. I blame this on Leatrice Brewer and Family Court."
Innocent Demesyeux, the father of the two little boys, told reporters he had been battling Brewer for custody for more than a year.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=5978071