DA: Mom Fell Asleep,
Smothered Twin Babies
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Kimberly Steeley, the woman accused of smothering her twins Bonde and Liam in 2018, did so by falling asleep while in bed with the children, District Attorney John Muehl told Judge John Lambert during a suppression hearing in Otsego County Court on Monday.
"She told police she nodded off in bed with them," he said. "She was reckless, and there is evidence that she was abusing prescription medication to the point of intoxication while she was caring for them."
Muehl also asked that Steeley's three DUI convictions, including one in the Town of Maryland in January 2018, five months before the twins' deaths, should be used as evidence to her recklessness in her upcoming trial.
