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We Should Be Asking Why Mom Stabbed Her Kids
Helen Ubi�as
December 10 2006
You hear the story of Carmela Ortiz and you think "monster." Who else but a
monster would repeatedly stab her babies in their sleep?
"Jose, I killed the kids," Carmela told her foster brother, Jose Oslan, when
she called in the early morning hours of Nov. 18. "They're just laying right
there and they're not moving. The baby, he don't want to cry."
"Don't say that!" Jose screamed. "What are you talking about?"
But, Jose recounted when the family and I spoke in their North End
apartment, Carmela only kept repeating herself. So he and his mother jumped
into the car and sped the few blocks to her Ashley Street apartment, where
what they found was so unbelievably gruesome Jose fears he will never be
able to close his eyes without reliving it.
Carmela was pacing in the foyer, dazed and muttering as she suddenly grabbed
a knife and turned it on herself. "I want to die, I want to die," she
yelled, before her foster mother, Nilsa Oslan, said she managed to wrestle
the knife away from her.
Inside the bedroom of the 2-year-old twins, Noah and Elijah, Jose found the
boys lying on the floor in pajamas soaked with blood.
"I threw myself on the floor and started smacking them to see if they would
move," he said. "One of them lifted his head, opened his eyes a little bit
and looked at me. Then his head went back down and he closed his eyes."
"They were dying," Jose cried, wiping away tears with a trembling hand.
And then Jose remembered the baby, 7-month-old Isaiah.
He ran into his room, and saw blood dripping from the crib.
What wasn't said, what didn't need to be said in the silence that followed
is what everyone is thinking: What kind of monster would do this?
Certainly, what Carmela Ortiz is accused of is monstrous - how the babies
survived such brutality is nothing short of miraculous. But unravel the
22-year-old's life, talk to those who know her, who love her, and it's not
so easy to simply dismiss her as a monster - as comforting as that may be.
By the time Carmela was 5, she had already been taken from her family by the
Department of Children and Families, an organization she would fear the rest
of her life.
She landed with Nilsa Oslan, a religious woman who said Carmela was a good
girl, an obedient child. But even then the family could tell that there was
something "not quite right" about Carmela. She'd rock back and forth; she'd
twist her hair and stare off into space.
"She was talking to you but then she'd say something and it was like she was
somewhere else," Nilsa said.
As she got older, the family said, Carmela became moody; quick to anger. And
by the time she was 15, she wanted out. She dropped out of school, and spent
the next few years bouncing among DCF shelters - dumping grounds really, for
teenagers with nowhere else to go.
At 18, Carmela walked out of DCF custody and, shortly thereafter, into
motherhood. She met Manuel Padilla through a mutual friend, and they quickly
became close. The twins were born two years ago, the baby earlier this year.
"They were always together," Jose said. "He seemed fine. She seemed happy."
But there was another side to the relationship. There were accusations of
physical violence on both sides. The scars on Manny's neck, he says, are
from Carmela's outbursts. In 2004, Manny was arrested after Carmela accused
him of choking and hitting her.
They'd break up, get back together. Sometimes he was living with her;
sometimes he wasn't.
Manny's mother, Margaret Valentin, who is in the process of obtaining
custody of the boys, isn't shy about saying the relationship wasn't working.
She threatened to call DCF on more than a few occasions, and shortly after
Manny's arrest, she did.
But nothing came of it. The one thing that everyone agrees on is that
Carmela was a good mother. The kids were clean, and fed. Even now, they ask
for her. Unfortunately, what everyone missed is that this good mother was
also a troubled young woman overwhelmed by rejection, loneliness and a
despair she couldn't shake.
She'd beg Nilsa to come over and help her clean, looking out the window as
they tidied up, convinced DCF would arrive any minute to take her children.
She called family and friends at all hours just to talk.
She slept all the time.
"Is it normal to always be crying and be scared?" she asked her foster
sister Zenia Oslan shortly after giving birth to Isaiah.
"I told her no," Zenia said. "I told her to go to the clinic and get some
pills for depression."
But Carmela refused. Always, the fear of DCF loomed.
"I can't do that," she told her. "They'll take away my kids."
The night of the stabbings, Manny came over to watch the boys while she
visited her family. She and Manny got into another fight when she came home
and found other women's numbers in his cellphone. He told her he had had
enough. He no longer cared for her; he was leaving. She told him she wanted
him to stay.
When she found herself alone again, records show she later told police, she
heard voices in her head - voices that told her that she and the kids would
be better off if they were "not around."
Manny called an hour after leaving to see how she and the kids were doing;
she told him she stabbed the kids.
"See what you made me do," Carmela said, before hanging up the phone.
Of course, her story doesn't forgive what happened that night, it may not
even explain it - how do you ever explain a mother turning on her own
children?
But this much, at least, is clear. Everyone saw the problems. No one saw
what they were adding up to.
"Now you look back and you think, what if," her sister Zenia said.
What if.
What if someone had seen that Carmela wasn't just another young mother
coping with mounting stress? What if they saw she was a woman spinning out
of control?
Just hours after the stabbing, Nilsa Oslan got a phone call from Carmela,
who by then was in lockup and charged with attempted murder and assault.
She was crying, Nilsa recalled. Confused.
"Ma, I'm over here and I'm in a hospital robe and the cops are telling me
that I'm going to court tomorrow."
Nilsa tried to comfort her. It's going to be all right, she told her. But
Carmela didn't understand.
"Ma, did I do something bad? What did I do? Are the kids OK? Is Manny OK?
Ma, did I do something bad?"
Before Nilsa could answer, the call was disconnected.
Helen Ubiñas' column appears Thursdays and Sundays. She can be reached at
ubinas@courant.com.
Copyright 2006,
Hartford Courant
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DCF DCF Okay's Sexual Torture of Children
(Download Audiofile)
Video Interview of children who were sexually assaulted
(download video) by a DCF foster "carer," who then blamed the sexual
injuries of the children on the mother, in court, under oath, and with the
approval of DCF staff:
DCF Crimes and Cover-up; records
which prove these allegations to be true
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