A wicked Bronx mother was arrested for allegedly maintaining her twin sons – now 14 – beneath home arrest for practically a decade and ravenous them in a “surprising, horrifying type of little one abuse,” prosecutors mentioned.
Lissette Soto Domenech, 64, allegedly starved the 2 boys and saved them nearly housebound of their Riverdale residence between November 3, 2016, and October 15, 2025, the Bronx District Lawyer’s Workplace charged.
A baby protecting specialist from town’s Administration for Youngsters’s Companies confirmed up on the Mosholu Avenue residence on the October date and known as 911 after receiving a number of nameless complaints, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
When investigators discovered the boys, considered one of them weighed a measly 54 kilos and the opposite solely 51, and each had been properly under the traditional top for his or her age, in line with prosecutors.
One of many boys, who’s autistic, apparently was by no means evaluated or acquired providers – and solely toddler cereal, child bottles and toddler toys could possibly be discovered within the condominium, with no age-appropriate meals or gadgets in sight, prosecutors mentioned.
FDNY EMTs took the boys to Montefiore Youngsters’s Hospital the place they required remedy for 3 months.
Starting in November of 2016, Domenech allegedly stopped taking the boys to a physician – and in September 2017 started submitting false paperwork to town’s Division of Training claiming she homeschooled them, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
She was arraigned Tuesday on fees of first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a kid and providing a false instrument for submitting, prosecutors mentioned.
Bronx Supreme Court docket Justice Audrey Stone ordered her held on $25,000 money bail or $75,000 bond.
“This defendant is accused of a surprising, horrifying type of little one abuse, allegedly depriving her sons of correct meals, social interplay, schooling, medical consideration,” District Lawyer Darcel Clark mentioned in a press release. “We are going to do every little thing we are able to to assist these boys attain a standard life.”
Domenech is because of face a decide once more on February 4.
