Mom who jumped onto train tracks after twins were found dead in car is arrested

MIAMI (TCD) -- A North Miami mother was arrested almost two weeks after her 3-year-old twins were found dead in her car and she jumped off a freeway on-ramp onto train tracks below.

Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation records show Shirlene Alcime was booked into jail Thursday, Feb. 15, on two counts of child neglect causing great bodily harm. She is being held without bond.

On Feb. 2 at approximately 2 a.m., a driver called Miami-Dade Police to report there were two unresponsive children in a vehicle on the northbound Interstate 95 near the Florida Turnpike Extension. When officers arrived, Alcime leapt off the expressway wall from a "considerable height" and fell onto the tracks. Paramedics rushed Alcime, Milendhet Napoleon-Cadet, and her twin brother, Milendhere Napoleon-Cadet, to a hospital, where the children were pronounced dead. Alcime was in critical condition following the fall.

According to court records cited by WTVJ-TV, Milendhet and Milendhere were foaming at the mouth and nose when the driver found them. Alcime had allegedly been thinking about killing her twins and herself for months due to "her current financial status and multiple debt(s) that she owes."

The affidavit reportedly says Alcime "admitted to contemplating jumping off the bridge with both victims or throwing them off one by one and then jumping to end their lives."

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