A mom of three-year-old twins leapt off a bridge in Florida in an alleged suicide attempt and survived after leaving her children foaming at the mouth in a hot car.
Shirlene N. Alcime, 43, has not yet been charged with murder after the twins died a short time later. The toxicology reports are still pending, Law & Crime reports. The 3-year-old fraternal twins Milendhet and Milendhere Napoleon-Cadet were found strapped into the backseat of a car off of I-95 on Feb. 2.
The children were unresponsive, and the mother jumped off the expressway overpass onto track tracks below after she reportedly heard police sirens. According to the outlet, Alcime had been driving around a day before looking for a place to jump.
She reportedly told police she was financially cash-strapped and couldn’t rely on anyone – including their father—for help. The family had also been struggling with homelessness. Alcime reportedly took the twins to McDonald’s and Chuck E. Cheese to have a good day, but it turned tragic.
“The defendant admitted to contemplating jumping off the bridge with both victims or throwing them off one by one and then jumping to end their lives,” officers wrote.
On Friday, Alcime appeared before a judge in a wheelchair and has so far been charged with aggravated child neglect with bodily harm. She has pleaded not guilty, but those charges could be updated.
“I am holding you with no bond on count one, for the child abuse, count two for child abuse, although I think there may be a probable cause for murder as well, but that’s up to the state to file that charge,” Judge Mindy Glazer said.
