An Indiana woman allegedly admitted to killing her two young children on Tuesday after doing drugs.
According to The Herald-Times, Brittany Medina, 33, walked into the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office and confessed to drowning her 1-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son in a bathtub. She reportedly explained that she took Xanax, a suboxone strip, and snorted three lines of cocaine the night before her boyfriend went to work, presumably leaving her alone with the toddlers.
After putting on cartoons for the kids, Medina allegedly claimed voices in her head told her “she needed to send her children to heaven today or there will be someone come and take her two children and her and place them in a dark hole.” She stated that the voices also said “people would torture all three until the end of their lives if she didn’t send the children to heaven today,” The Herald-Times reported.
In turn, Medina allegedly filled a bathtub with water, told her children she loved them and gave them kisses, and held them underwater by their necks until they stopped moving. Medina reportedly recalled then putting on dry clothes and returning to the bathroom — where she observed her children’s motionless bodies in the filled bathtub. She then drove to the police station.
“I ended up drowning them,” Medina said during the police interview, according to WXIN.
Police who responded to the Mitchell home following Medina’s alleged confession found her son and daughter’s bodies. TK reported that the two children appeared to have drowned, which corresponded with Medina’s claims.
Medina, who is facing murder charges, remains jailed without bond. The Herald-Times reported that Indiana State Police have also sought to have her charged with neglect of a dependent child causing death.
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[Featured image: Brittany Medina/Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department; Facebook]
