Naomi Elkins has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of unlawful weapon possession
Naomi Elkins has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of unlawful weapon possession (Picture: Ocean County Department of Corrections)

A mother allegedly drowned her one- and three-year old daughters in a bathtub in their home.

Naomi Elkins, 27, is also accused of stabbing her younger daughter.

Cops responded to a report of two kids suffering cardiac arrest at a home on Shenandoah Drive in Lakewood, New Jersey, shortly before 5pm on Tuesday, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

Paramedics tried to administer life-saving measures on the girls, but they were both pronounced dead at the scene early Wednesday. 

The toddlers were found drowned in the bathtub, a source told NBC 10 Philadelphia reported.

The young sisters were not immediately identified.

Elkins was charged with two counts of murder, one count of possessing a weapon for an unlawful purpose and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon, said Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer

In a virtual court appearance from Ocean County Jail’s medical facility on Wednesday afternoon, Elkins faced Judge Scott Basen.

She has a detention hearing slated for Monday morning and her defense lawyer is Mitch Ansell.

Elkins is married, according to jail records obtained by NJ.com.

The crime scene occurred in a neighborhood housing many in Lakewood Township’s Orthodox Jewish community, which is ‘still in shock’, said Mayor Raymond Coles.

‘It’s a horrible thing to know that something like that happened here. I always wait for the official information and stay out of the way,’ Coles told the Ashbury Park Press.

‘From what I know, it is the worst possible thing that can happen, anything involving children hurts and it makes it more powerful and sad.’

A local activist and merchant, Herschel Herskowitz, told the newspaper that Elkins’ family ‘is well known in the community’.

Elkins allegedly killed her daughters more than a year-and-a-half after a mother was accused of drowning her three children in the ocean in Coney Island, New York.

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