CHICAGO (AP) — A woman was charged Tuesday with drowning her two young children in a bathtub and setting fire to their home, apparently believing they would be better off dead, authorities said.
"She told detectives that she drowned the children because the children would not have a good life with her," Police Commander Dean Andrews said in announcing first-degree murder and arson charges against 23-year-old Abby Grason.
Issac Younan, 2, and Sandra Younan, 4, were found in the bathroom Monday by firefighters and pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said.