A depraved Bronx mom was arrested for allegedly keeping her twin sons – now 14 – under house arrest for nearly a decade and starving them in a “shocking, horrifying form of child abuse,” prosecutors said.
Lissette Soto Domenech, 64, allegedly starved the two boys and kept them virtually housebound in their Riverdale home between November 3, 2016, and October 15, 2025, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office charged.
A child protective specialist from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services showed up at the Mosholu Avenue home on the October date and called 911 after receiving several anonymous complaints, the DA’s office said.
When investigators found the boys, one of them weighed a measly 54 pounds and the other only 51, and both were well below the normal height for their age, according to prosecutors.
One of the boys, who is autistic, apparently was never evaluated or received services – and only infant cereal, baby bottles and toddler toys could be found in the apartment, with no age-appropriate food or items in sight, prosecutors said.
FDNY EMTs took the boys to Montefiore Children’s Hospital where they required treatment for three months.
Beginning in November of 2016, Domenech allegedly stopped taking the boys to a doctor – and in September 2017 began submitting false documents to the city’s Department of Education claiming she homeschooled them, the DA’s office said.
She was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and offering a false instrument for filing, prosecutors said.
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Audrey Stone ordered her held on $25,000 cash bail or $75,000 bond.
“This defendant is accused of a shocking, horrifying form of child abuse, allegedly depriving her sons of proper food, social interaction, education, medical attention,” District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement. “We will do everything we can to help these boys attain a normal life.”
Domenech is due to face a judge again on February 4.
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