The woman's father told a newspaper that his daughter was suffering from postpartum depression.
NEW YORK — A mother has been charged with murder in the stabbings of two small children in a Bronx apartment, police said Monday.
Dimone Fleming, 22, is accused of killing 11-month-old Octavius Fleming-Canada and 3-year-old Dashawn Fleming, who wereon Saturday in the apartment in the Mount Hope neighborhood were the family had been living. The children were pronounced dead at a hospital. Fleming, the boys’ mother, was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and arrested there Sunday, police said in a news release. It wasn’t clear if Fleming had an attorney who could comment on the charges against her.that his daughter was suffering from postpartum depression, a condition the young mother had been hoping to treat.“Dimone was going through some stuff,” Dwane Fleming said.
The Daily News reported that Octavius’ father, Columbus Canada, 31, told police he had been staying in his car after getting into a fight with Fleming the night before, and returned home Saturday night to find the boys’ lifeless bodies.
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