Miami police arrested a young mother of Cuban descent for attempting to murder her two children so the father could not see her.
Dalanys Álvarez, 22, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
The arrest was made Tuesday at his home in Homeastead, a city in Miami-Dade County.
According to the arrest report, which América TeVe had access to, the woman said she would kill herself and her children, a girl and a boy, aged two and three, so the father could not have them.
Police went to the family home after receiving a call from a man denouncing the young mother’s threat.
Upon arriving at the scene, officers noticed that one of the babies had a red spot on the neck.
Álvarez spent the night in the county jail and was brought before the criminal court the next day.
Her public defender tried to downplay the defendants’ threats in front of her boyfriend, claiming that she only said those things to the children’s father to humiliate him, but that there was no evidence that she meant to harm the little ones. .
Prosecutors countered that the baby had markings on her neck suggesting an attempted strangulation, a point Judge Mindy S. Glazer agreed with.
The judge issued Dalanys Álvarez bail of $100,000 plus house arrest. If the prisoner could pay this amount and be released from prison, she will not be able to have contact with her children.
This week, Miami police arrested another Mother, African American, accused of murdering her two childrenone female and one male aged five and three years respectively.
The events took place in a house in the Little Haiti neighborhood. The two children were in a room, lying face down on the bed, their arms, legs and necks tied.
The mother, identified as Odette Lysse Joassaint, 41, is charged with first-degree murder.
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