Irving Mom Arrested After Son Found Dead

Irving A mother is in custody on suspicion of murder capital after her 5-year-old son was found dead and his 2-year-old sister was seriously injured in their apartment.
The police said the mother, Saiqa akhter called 911 about 5 hours from Monday to say she had hurt her children in their apartment in the 3300 block of Esters Road.
She said she did something terrible to the children, "police spokesman David Tull said." Officers arrived and they had two children in extreme need.
"Initial indications are that it is a strangulation of the type of attack," said Tull.
The authorities found a thread in the apartment that they believe akhter, 30, used her children to choke.
Zain akhter was pronounced dead at Baylor Medical Center at Irving. Police said doctors at Children's Medical Hospital in Dallas was his sister, Faryaal akhter, resuscitated several times. She remained in "very critical condition," said Tull.
Saiqa akhter was the only adult home at the time of the attack, police said. Her husband was later seen leaving the police headquarters with friends.
The family is supposed to have lived on the Wind Tree Apartments for about a month.
Dozens of neighbors gathered after the crime scene tape as detectives gathered evidence of akhter 'second floor apartment.
Gilbert Medina, 25, who lives at the complex, said he saw the children when they were taken from the house.
"They looked like they had passed out," said Medina.
Irving police declined to release additional details because the case was completed ..
Although the researchers had not offered a possible motive is not, Houston attorney George Parnham said dat she should search for signs of postpartum depression, which can lead moeders their children harm.
"Her doctors should be consulted - pediatricians, family, man, just neighbors - to find out what was going on," Parnham said that the defense attorney for Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001.
Yates was found not guilty on grounds of insanity and remains in a state hospital.
Untreated postpartum depression can spiral into psychosis, and thus ignore, "may increasingly become cemented in its decision making processes relating to children," he said.
He said the disorder take more than one year after the birth of a child, and in women who have the disease, it tends to worsen with subsequent pregnancies.