The city Administration for Children’s Services saw “no red flags or physical signs of abuse” just two days before the discovery of a Queens house of horrors where 1-year-old twin siblings were viciously beaten, one fatally, a source with the agency insisted Friday.
ACS is now doing “a three-week deep dive” into the case and any workers who went to the Auburndale home Monday for a routine visit before the sickening Wednesday night revelation.
“We are currently reviewing this case through our new after-action protocol, which closely examines both individual decision-making and child protective systems. Any further action would be a result of this comprehensive analysis,” said ACS spokeswoman Marisa Kaufman.
It was unclear whether one ACS worker or two visited the Ashby Avenue home of 30-year-old Tina Torabi and her five children – all under the age of 6 – to follow up on a court order to check whether the mom was completing substance-abuse treatment, among other factors.
Two days later, Torabi called 911 at around 9:50 p.m.
Police found badly beaten 1-year-old Elaina Torabi not breathing and unresponsive in the basement of the home. She was rushed to Flushing Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later.
She suffered injuries to her skull, abdomen and pelvic area and had blisters and open lesions across her body, sources said.
The baby girl’s twin brother, Keon, was discovered with jaundice, a protruding belly and multiple broken bones — including ribs, a hip and leg — a laceration to his liver and a contusion to his stomach, according to sources.
The boy remains in critical but stable condition in the intensive-care unit at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.
Torabi was charged late Thursday with felony assault for the injuries to her son.
Law-enforcement sources said Friday that three other children in the home, Mila, 2, Nadia, 4, and 5-year-old Ariana Torabi, were found with scratches on their legs and signs of scabies.
An ACS source was adamant that there were no signs of scratches or scabies on the children at the time of the Monday visit.
ACS launched an investigation a few years ago into Torabi’s alleged drug use and abuse of Adderall, sources have said.
During questioning with police, Torabi rambled on about ACS “and how she came to get custody of the kids” from her estranged husband who is from Nashville, a police source said.
“She talked about why ACS got involved in the first place. She talked about substance abuse by the kid’s father,” the source said. “She said she purposefully got full custody of the kid’s because of his substance abuse.”
The source added: “ACS was involved prior to her getting full custody.”
Sources familiar with the case said the father of the children – who has a history of domestic violence — turned Torabi, a law-school drop-out, on to drugs.
The twins tested positive for opioids after their Aug. 27, 2017, births, according to sources, who noted that Torabi was given oxycodone after their births and quickly went through the bottle of pills.
At some point, ACS took all five children into custody, and Torabi went through a treatment program for her addiction, sources said. A family-court judge ultimately ruled that she get her children back.
In January of this year, ACS filed for a temporary order of protection against the children’s father, an agency source said. The order of protection has been repeatedly renewed, and it runs through Oct. 10.
“We knew the dad was no good and didn’t want him anywhere near the wife and kids,” the source said.
Before the family moved to New York, they lived in Texas.
“Some of the domestic incidents [in Texas] involved him biting [Torabi], and even one of the babies was bitten,” the source said. “Only she knows what really happened in the house, but she clearly was a battered wife.”