The autopsy performed on an Ecuadorian immigrant and her three children, found dead in her home in Connecticut (United States), confirmed that the mother strangled the children and then hanged herself, as the police in the city believed. town of Danbury.
The Connecticut Medical Examiner’s Office released today the results of the autopsies of Sonia Loja, aged 36, and her children Jonael Panjón, 5 years old, Joselyn, from 10, and Junior from 12, according to media press release.
The police had indicated on Thursday that the initial investigation found that Loja “strangled her three children” before taking her own life, but was waiting for an autopsy to confirm this.
Loja had emigrated ago 15 years to the United States from his native Ecuador and it is still unknown what led him to strangle his children and take his own life, a tragedy that has dismayed friends and neighbors of the quiet neighborhood in who lived.
Pedro Panjón, Sonia’s husband and father of the children, found the bodies when he decided to go home because his wife did not answer his calls.
After a few minutes in his house, he went out, called the police and then passed out.
According to reports, Loja he cared for other families’ children in an unlicensed daycare that he had at his home, and had received two citations from the state agency in charge of that issue.
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