Distraught: News About the Deaths of Jannell Cintron & Cesess Hill

I felt just destroyed while watching the news about Jannell Cintron and Cesess Hill, 2 little girls who were murdered by their mother near where I live. She drowned them allegedly out of frustration with their father. The two of them were involved in an abusive relationship. This has bought up so many painful memories for me...I know the pain and desperation this young mother felt. I am not saying she was right or had no other option, but I know the despair and confusion she felt to do such a horrific thing. I feel so deeply for the father as well, because even though I know the kinds of things he must have said to her including threatening to take their kids from her, I saw this man cry from the bottom of his soul on the news and I feel he loved his children deeply. Two children are DEAD and the lives of their parents are irreparably ruined because neither had the presence of mind to leave the other alone and walk away from a sick and destructive relationship. I wrote about this in my previous post but here is more news:

CLEVELAND -- Court records show a Cleveland woman now accused of drowning her two children, was a victim of domestic abuse. Amber Hill remains in jail after police say she drowned her two little girls inside an apartment on Cleveland's east side.

Court records in Cleveland and Bedford indicate the children's father, Jaime Citron attacked Hill on two separate occasions. In January of 2004, Hill told Warrensville Heights Police Citron jumped on her and grabbed her by the neck. The report says Citron was so angry he punched himself in the face several times. He was later found guilty of domestic violence.

In May of 2006, court records show Citron picked up a hammer and smashed a television screen. The report also says he grabbed her by the neck and shoved her. In an interview with Fox 8 Tuesday, Citron admitted he wasn't always a sensible person. But he says since the abuse convictions, he's been working to change his attitude and his abusive ways.

"We had just got back together like a month and a half ago. Being apart six months was really hard for me," said Cintron. Monday the two most important people in his life, his two daughters, were found floating in a bath tub and the accused killer is a mother.

Citron says he wants to know why she did it. Amber Hill's family says a combination of abuse and depression may have led her to kill.
Local Fox 8 News Report

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