NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A Medford woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to suffocating her twin daughters in a 2019 double homicide, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said.
“This is such a sad and tragic case. Those two little girls looked to this defendant, their mother, for protection and love. Instead, she executed them,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said.
Tenia Campbell, 28, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and is due back in court on Jan. 25 for sentencing. She is expected to get 20 years to life in prison, the district attorney’s office said.
On June 27, 2019, Campbell’s mother called 911 at 2:37 p.m. to report that Campbell was driving around in her family van and threatening to kill her daughters, according to court documents and the defendant’s admission.
This prompted a large-scale police search, and at about 4 p.m., East Hampton Police found a van off Montauk Highway and approached to find Campbell outside.
Officials said that the officer went over to the vehicle and discovered the two-year-old girls dead in their car seats.
Campbell later admitted to smothering the girls, the district attorney’s office said.
“The defendant has one thing those twin girls will never have again: life. But now, this defendant will get to live out the majority of her life behind bars,” Tierney said.