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Andrew Califf, Anna Gratzer, Rocco Parascandola and John Annese

Bronx mom suspected of stabbing young sons to death 'thought the kids were devils,' family says

NEW YORK — Heartbroken relatives of the 11-month and 3-year-old boys found fatally stabbed in an overflowing Bronx bathtub say their mother, suspected of killing them, is obsessed with demons.

“They were beautiful children and they did not deserve to die. It’s simple as that,” Beverly Hill, the paternal grandmother of 11-month-old victim Octavius Canada told the Daily News. “They were beautiful and they had no reason to die.”

Cops believe the boys’ mother, Dimone “Brenda” Fleming, stabbed them to death. Fleming, 22, is undergoing psychiatric care and has not yet been charged.

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