A Texas mother was charged with murdering her two young daughters, a report said, allegedly turning herself in and confessing to the murders Monday night.
Madison McDonald, 30, reportedly told authorities she had sedated her children – 1-year-old daughter Lillian Mae McDonald and 6-year-old Archer Hammond – before killing them to death, Fox 4 reported, citing police.
Irving police said McDonald entered their headquarters and used a phone in the lobby to call 911 to confess to the crimes.
The mother, who lives alone with her two daughters, told police that her children have been assaulted, according to a sworn arrest obtained through the outlet.
As a result, McDonald claimed she would do anything to protect her children, including “eliminate them,” the affidavit said.
Police responding to McDonald’s apartment found the victims’ bodies.
An autopsy will determine the girls’ official causes of death.
“We’re trying to find out why,” the mother is said to have killed her daughters, Irving police officer Robert Reeves said, according to the report.
“We may never know why, because there will be no definition or reason that would ever justify the murder of two small children,” said Reeves.
McDonald is charged with two charges of capital murder, the report said.