Mom of Bronx boys found fatally stabbed in bathtub is charged with murder
A Bronx mom allegedly confessed to killing her two little boys and has now been charged with their murders — days after she shared a quote on Facebook about wanting kids to know they’re always safe at home.
Dimone Fleming, 22, admitted her heinous crime to NYPD detectives who interviewed her at St. Barnabas Hospital, where she has been held for psychiatric evaluation since Saturday’s horror inside the family’s apartment at a Mount Hope homeless shelter, police sources told the Post.
Fleming was charged at the 46th Precinct late Sunday with two counts each of murder, intention to commit murder and murder: depraved indifference to a person less than 11 years old.
Her sons — 11-month-old Octavius Canada and 3-year-old DeShawn Fleming — were found dead Saturday night in their apartment at a homeless shelter at 246 Echo Place in Mount Hope.
The boys each had “multiple stab wounds” to the neck and torso, Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie told reporters.
Just hours before the boys were found, Fleming shared a quote on social media about parents wanting to protect their children.
“I want my children to always know … if the relationship ain’t working COME HOME! If the bills become overwhelming COME HOME! If you feel unsafe COME HOME! If something don’t feel right COME HOME!” said the post, originally written by another Facebook user and shared by the mom Saturday morning.
“I want my kids to always know they can come home … I never believed in the saying ‘they 18 they grown,'” the post continues.
Meanwhile, court records reveal that a woman bearing the same name and date of birth as Fleming was charged in a child pornography case in York County, Pa., in April of 2018. Details about the case and its outcome were not immediately available.
Fleming had been taken into custody Saturday night after cops responded to the apartment on a report of a woman “acting irrationally” and igniting things in the kitchen.
She was found naked on the third floor, police said.
Cops didn’t notice the slain boys buried under a pile of clothes in the bathtub when they took her away.
A neighbor had told police that the kids’ dad had them, authorities said.
Police returned to the shelter about 8 p.m. after a 911 call from the frantic dad, Columbus Canada, 31, who found his sons’ lifeless bodies.
On Sunday, law enforcement sources told The Post that Fleming may have killed her sons because she believed they were possessed.
“She made statements about the devil — unusual statements,” a police source said.
In an earlier Facebook post, the mom also chillingly wrote: “It’s only one true God and I repent from all wrong doings and negative influence. Leaving all things that’s no longer serves me…… Thank you for your mercy.”
The woman was previously investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services after DeShawn was born, according to sources, who said she was suspected of improperly caring for the boy.
In an email Monday night, a spokesperson for ACS said that “the safety and well-being of New York City’s children is our top priority. We are investigating this case with the NYPD.”
Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks
