Mother Charged With Stabbing 3 Young Sons, CT

Mother Charged With Stabbing 3 Young Sons, CT
Mother charged with stabbing three young sons Police investigating three stabbings in Hartford story by Tricia Taskey (Hartford-WTNH, November 18, 2006 Updated 9:55 AM) A 22-year-old Hartford mother is in police custody and charged with attempting to kill her three sons. Police say 2-year-old twin boys and one 7-month-old boy have been stabbed multiple times inside a multi-family on 145 Ashley Street. The 911 call came in around 2 AM. We're told the children were stabbed in the torso. Carmela Ortiz is at a local hospital for evaluation and is in police custody. She faces a long list of charges including three counts of attempted murder. She is being held on a $2.5 million bond. Two of the children are at Yale New Haven Hospital and the third is at a Hartford Hospital. All three are expected to survive. No further information is being released at this time. http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5701179

Carmela Ortiz motive For Mother Stabbing Toddlers questioned
Motive Not Yet Released For Mother Stabbing Toddlers, Baby Police: She May Have Tried To Harm Herself, Too

November 18, 2006 HARTFORD, Conn. -- Hartford police have not yet released a possible motive for the stabbing of three children Saturday. Their mother was arrested as a suspect. Twin two-year-old boys and their seven-month-old brother remain hospitalized, but authorities said they're expected to survive. The mother, Carmela Ortiz, 22, was charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of first-degree assault. She was held on $2.5 million bond and was expected to be arraigned in Hartford Superior Court on Monday. Authorities said they planned to file additional charges against her. Police said Ortiz stabbed her 2-year-old twin sons and her 7-month-old baby boy at about 2 a.m. in her apartment on Ashley Street in the city's Asylum Hill neighborhood. The twins were flown to Yale-New Haven Hospital and the baby was taken to Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford. All three were in critical condition. Police Chief Daryl Roberts said Ortiz underwent psychiatric care at a hospital. "We believe she may have tried to harm herself as well," he told The Hartford Courant. What led to the stabbings was unclear. http://www.nbc30.com/news/10352516/detail.html?treets=har&tid=2657576945813&tml=har_7am&tmi=har_7am_1_06000111202006&ts=H

Grandmother Seeks Custody Of Stabbed Grandchildren
Grandmother Seeks Custody Of Stabbed Grandchildren December 1, 2006 HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Hartford woman wants the state's child welfare agency and a judge to grant her custody of her three grandchildren, whose mother is charged with nearly killing them. Margaret Valentin and her son, Manuel Padilla, want custody of the 2-year-old twins and their 7-month-old brother. The children's mother, Carmela Ortiz, is charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing the boys on Nov. 18 in their Hartford home. The twins were released from the hospital Monday, Valentin said Thursday. The baby remains hospitalized at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, but Valentin said he is conscious and out of danger. The mother remains in custody and is being held in lieu of $3 million bond. All three boys are in the custody of the state Department of Children and Families, the twins already in temporary foster care. But Valentin and her 21-year-old son, Manuel Padilla -- the father of the three boys -- are hoping to persuade DCF and a Hartford juvenile court judge to give them custody during a hearing Friday. "I understand DCF has to do what it has to do, but why place my family members with strangers when I can care for them?" said Valentin, who is already a DCF-licensed foster parent. http://www.nbc30.com/news/10439554/detail.html?treets=har&tid=2657576945813&tml=har_12pm&tmi=har_12pm_1_11000312012006&ts=H

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