HOUSTON—A Houston mother who calmly told an acquaintance that she had drowned her two children in a bathtub has been charged in their deaths and was being held without bond Monday.
Sheborah Thomas, 30, was charged Sunday with capital murder of a person under age 6, according to court records.
“All indications are she is the one who acted alone” in the deaths of her 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter, Houston police spokesman Kese Smith told The Associated Press. Their bodies were found Sunday under a neighbor’s house.
Tejal Patel, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said state child welfare officials have visited the family, but that she could not disclose the nature of those visits. Patel said a “top to bottom review” of the family will be conducted.
Neighbors told the Houston Chronicle that the family had moved in just a few months earlier.
“She would just take her kids to the park; that’s all everyone saw of them,” neighbor Mike Polk told the newspaper.
In 2001, Houston mother Andrea Yates drowned her five children ranging in age from 7 years to 6 months in the bathtub of her family’s home. She was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity in July 2006 and sent to a state mental hospital.
