Edmonton parents charged with aggravated assault to twin daughters

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An Edmonton couple is facing numerous charges related to the alleged abuse of their twin two-year-old daughters, both of whom remain in hospital, one on life support.

On May 25, 2012, EMS paramedics were called to the couple’s residence, where they found one of the twins in cardiac arrest, and the other with numerous injuries. Paramedics successfully revived the one girl, who had sustained a life-threatening head injury, before transporting the twins to hospital. The one girl remains on life support. 

The twins were assessed by physicians and found to be severely malnourished; one girl weighing 13 pounds and her sister 16 pounds. EPS’s Child at Risk Response Team was subsequently contacted, after the twin girls were transported to hospital. 

On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, EPS arrested and charged the parents of the twin girls with two counts each of aggravated assault, two counts each of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and two counts each of failing to provide the necessities of life, following consultation with the Crown. 

The names of the accused cannot be released to protect the identities of the children. A third child, a young boy, was unharmed, and has since been taken into foster care. 

Homicide investigators are now presiding over the file, given the life-threatening injuries sustained by one of the twins. 

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