Jul 30, 2007 9:53 pm US/Eastern
Two Children Killed In Roslindale
ROSLINDALE (AP) ―
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Police sealed off the area around the home on Maynard Street Sunday night.
WBZ
Two children were found dead in a Boston home, and friends of their mother, who was hospitalized with stab wounds Monday, said she had been despondent in the days before the killings.
Boston Police Superintendent John Gallagher did not say who investigators believe killed the 12-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy, but he said they were not searching for any suspects.
"This is not a random incident. We are confident the neighborhood is still a safe neighborhood at this point," Gallagher said.
Officers entering the Roslindale home Sunday night found the children dead. The 31-year-old mother, whose identity was not released, was taken Brigham & Women's Hospital, where she was being treated Monday for non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Police initially said the children were fatally stabbed, but said Monday evening the cause of death would be determined by an autopsy.
Friends and relatives said the woman had been distraught after recently leaving her job as an executive assistant at Children's Hospital.
Hospital spokeswoman Elizabeth Andrews said the woman resigned last week, but she wouldn't comment on the circumstances of her employment.
Monica Perez, who called herself a friend of the mother, told reporters outside the home that the woman had called her Saturday and threatened to kill herself.
"She said she was giving up," Perez said.
"She was desperate," said Juan Gonzalez, Perez's boyfriend, but he said the woman had never threatened to hurt her children. "She was a nice person, she was a good mother. She loved those kids so much."
The Department of Social Services in 1998 had launched an investigation of the mother for child neglect but considered the problems to be resolved when the case was closed in 2000, spokesman Michael McCormack said.
"There were no issues that would raise to the level of concern that we're seeing today," McCormack said.
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