The mother of two Bronx children who died from gas poisoning earlier this month was indicted on murder charges Friday, prosecutors announced.
A grand jury indicted Lisette Bamenga
on one count of Murder in the first degree, and two counts of Murder in
the second degree in the deaths of
3-month-old Violet Noel and
4-year-old Trevor Noel.
Prosecutors allege that on July 5,
Bamenga, 29, fed her children windshield wiper fluid mixed with grape
juice, then tried drowning them in a bath tub, and finally locked them
in the kitchen of their ninth floor apartment at 1500 Noble avenue and
turned on the gas.
Police responded to reports of a gas
leak the following morning and found the two dead children, along with
their mother who was unconscious. Bamenga had lacerations on her wrist
and had attempted to commit suicide, police said.
The Bronx mom allegedly admitted she carried out the grisly acts after
discovering her NYPD cop husband — Trevor Noel, 31, a patrolman in the
28th Precinct — fathered a child with someone else
“I poisoned them. That didn’t work, so I drowned them,” Lisette Bamenga
told investigators from the hospital shortly after the murders according
to Prosecutor Theresa Gottlieb.
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