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Mother Charged in Death of Twins

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Regina Lofton put her 13-month-old twins down for a nap in the upstairs bedroom of her home in the 10600 block of Wentworth Avenue in Chicago. She left the home, even getting a shrimp basket from a local diner. Lee Sweis, the manager said ?She seemed happy.? She didn?t actually check on her children for a total of five and a half hours, until she went upstairs to feed them. According to the Chicago Tribune, when the police were called to the home at about 5:50 pm, it was already too late. The twins were pronounced dead less than an hour later. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the condition of the home as ?deplorable.? The temperature had crawled over 90 degrees outdoors, and the only air conditioner in the upstairs bedroom was turned off. The window of the room was open, but blocked by towels, increasing the temperature of the upstairs bedroom...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Criminal Defense Blog on August 20, 2010 (boomark / email).