“Kaddib markii ay maqashay in ninkeedu uu xaas kale ku guursadey Kenya ayaa xiskeedii sii tegey..” Sidaas waxaa yiri eheladeeda….

USA: Magaalada Indianapolis ee gobolka Indiana ayaa (Axadii Sept 19, 2010) waxaa guri loogu dhex tegey laba carruur ah oo meyd ah iyo saddex kale oo aad u il daran. Waxaa la xiray hooyadood oo Soomaali ah oo magaceedu yahay Ebyan Farah oo 28-jir ah. Labada carruurta ah ee dhintay waxay ahaayeen 3-jir wiil ah iyo 5-jir gabar ah. Waxaana warbaahintu tibaaxday in aysan muuqan wax dhaawac ah oo carruurta ku yaaley balse ay u geeriyoodeen dayacaad (neglect).

Waxaa wararku intaas raaciyeen in ay saddex kale oo carruurteeda ah loo tegey iyagoo nool oo nafaqo darro la il darnaayeen oo hadda lagu dawaynayo cisbitaalka.

Waxaa wararku sheegeen in la hayo Ebyan Farah oo la sheegay in damaanad lagu siidaynayo haddii dhigo $200,000 oo damaanad ah.

Ehelada Ebyan Farah oo la soo xiriiray SomaliTalk ayaa sheegay in Hooyadaas Soomaaliyeed ay “madaxa wax uga dhinmeen oo caarruurtu u dhinteen dayac aysan ka warhayn xiskeeda oo aan caadi ahayn awgeed. Waxayna sheegeen in ay uga sii dartay kaddib markii ay maqashay in ninkeedu uu xaas kale ku guursadey Kenya. Carruurtuna ay dayac u geeriyoodeen iyadoo dhimirkeedu uu maqan yahay.”

Dhanka kale, warbaahinta magaalada Indianapolis ee Gobolka Indiana waxay ku celceliyeen in labada carrruurta ah ee dhintay, hooyada iyo saddexda carruurta ah ee nool ay dhammaantood ahaayeen kuwo aad iyo aad caato u ah (extremely thin) oo ay ka muuqatey nafaqa darro. Saddexda carruurta ee nool da’duudu waa 7-jir, 5-jir iyo 1-jir. Waxaana hooyada lagu eedeeyey in ay dayacday.

Wararku waxay intaas raaciyeen in carruurta abaahood oo magaciisu yahay Burhan Hassan uu bil ka hor u safray Afrika oo uu ku soo booqanayey eheladiisa.

Jariidadda IndyStar waxay qortay in Ebyan Farah ay booliska u sheegtay in shanta carruurta ah ku xirtay (bedroom closet) oo ay ku jireen 10 saacadood ka hor intii aysan ogaan in labo ay dhinteen. Waxayna booliska u shegtay in “caqligeedu uusan fiyoobayn” markii ay albaabka ku gudubtey sariir si aan carruurtu usoo bixin.

Labada Carruurta ah oo dhintay magacyadoodu waa Zakariya Farah, 3-jir  iyo Zuhur Farah, 5-jir.

Wararkii uu faafiyey warbaahinta Indianapolis hoos ka akhri:

Police: 2 dead children were extremely thin

Dehydration suspected; mom charged with neglect

The detective investigating the deaths Sunday of two children on the city’s Southwestside said they, as well as their mother and surviving siblings, appeared to be extremely thin and possibly suffering from dehydration.

But Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective Scott Scheid declined to speculate on what killed a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl. Autopsies were performed Monday, but results of toxicology and other tests have not yet been released.

The children were found “in a state of rigor mortis in a front living room” of an apartment in the Manchester Village complex. They might have been dead for about two hours by the time police responded to a 911 call at 8:40 p.m., Scheid said, and there were no visible wounds on their bodies.

Their mother, Ebyan Farah, 28, was arrested and charged with two counts of neglect. Police were considering filing additional charges against her. She is the only suspect under investigation.

The father, Burhan Hassan, is a cabdriver but has been in Africa about a month visiting family, according to a fellow driver.

Three surviving children, ages 7, 5 and 1, were taken into protective custody by the Department of Child Services, which could mean they’re with family members or in foster care. DCS spokesperson Ann Houseworth declined to elaborate.

The Farah/Hassans are among a half-dozen families from war-torn Somalia living in the apartment complex. They have lived there about four years, neighbors said.

Neighbor Ibrahim Mohammed Diini, a trucker born in Somalia, said he checked on Farah and the children three weeks ago and all seemed well.

But some of the other neighbors painted a picture of a household in disarray, of a mother who kept to herself and rarely left the apartment.

Janice Kline said Farah’s children spent much of their time in their backyard, a plot of uncut grass not much larger than a living room and walled in by an 8-foot-tall privacy fence. Monday, the yard held a swing set and teeter-totter as well as a large, broken flat-screen television and a half-dozen carpets piled on top of an old clothes dryer.

Kline, 45, whose mother lives next door, said the children were often outdoors even in the recent extreme heat, and that they’d be “beating and kicking at the door,” trying to get inside.

The yard, on the apartment’s west side, offers no shade from the afternoon sun. Kline’s 13-year-old son, Shawn, recalled tossing the children a water bottle and them passing it around and drinking eagerly.

The Klines did not alert authorities — “we didn’t know who to call,” said Janice Kline.

“It does not appear we had an open assessment,” or investigation, of the family, said DCS’s Houseworth. “Obviously, we do now.”

Farah spoke some English and could drive. Her minivan was parked outside the apartment Monday.

Nicole Felt, who lives across the parking lot, said, “the mom and kids stayed inside mostly. The dad was friendly. You’d see him coming and going in his cab. It was, ‘Hi, how are you?’ ”

The apartment’s management declined to provide any details about the family. Hassan left for a visit with family in Kenya about a month ago, said fellow Somali and cabdriver Ali Jamal.

“This is a horrible, horrific, tragic thing that has happened,” Jamal said.

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Indianapolis: Mother arrested in deaths of two children in Southwestside apartment

Police arrested a woman and charged her with neglect in connection with the deaths of her two children in a Southwestside apartment complex.

Additional charges may be placed against, the mother, Ebyan Farah, 28, police said this afternoon.

Linda Jackson, an IMPD spokesperson, would not elaborate but said investigators “are not looking at any additional suspects.” She said autopsies had been completed but that additional testing was still being done to determine the cause of death.

The children, a boy, 3, and a girl, 5, were found “in a stage of rigor mortis in the front living room,” according to a police report.

Firefighters found the children’s bodies at Manchester Village Apartments in the 4600 block of Londonderry Court about 8:45 p.m. Sunday.

Police said said there were no signs of trauma or gunshot wounds on the bodies.

Farah’s three other children were turned over to Child Protective Services, police said.

Residents of the apartment complex said they had seen a man and a woman arguing around 7 p.m. Sunday on the sidewalk outside the small, single-story apartment where the dead children were found. The residents of that apartment were rarely seen outside, but the children had been occasionally seen playing in front of the apartment.

Police were looking into reports that the people who were involved in the childrens’ deaths were immigrants from Somalia. Many people from that East African nation have come to the Indianapolis area since the outbreak of trouble in that area in recent years.

Dozens of residents were gathered outside Sunday night amid eight to 10 police cars, a crime scene van and several taxicabs whose presence was not immediately explained.
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Two children found dead; mother arrested

Indianapolis – Two children are dead and three other children are in the hospital being treated for malnutrition after being taken from an apartment on the south side.

Indianapolis Metro Police arrested 28-year-old Edyan Farah on two preliminary felony counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in death. More charges could follow.

The children, a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, were found dead Sunday at 4663 Londonderry Court, which is off of Mann Road near Kentucky Avenue in Manchester Village apartments. An autopsy was conducted Monday to determine the exact cause of death.

A relative from Chicago, Hussein Adam, told Eyewitness News that he spoke to the children’s father but did not provide further details.

“I talked to the father and we don’t know the problem with them, but this is bad news,” he said.

Farah moved to the United States 10 years ago and settled with her family in Indianapolis.

Neighbors were stunned and baffled.

“I don’t know what you would say to her. It makes me sick,” said neighbor Nicole Felt.

“The kids very rarely came outside. But they were almost always at the window. They would wave hi – smiles, big smiles. They were so friendly,” added Felt.

Paramedics took three other children from the home. They were reportedly malnourished. Child Protective Services was called in to assist with the case.

Crime scene and homicide detectives entered the scene around midnight after obtaining a warrant. They say a neighbor called 911 around 9 p.m. and police and fire crews responded to the scene.

Metro Police said they took a statement from Farah but would not release any more details. She is being held on a $200,000 bond.

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Police: Mom locked kids in closet before 2 died

An Indianapolis mother told police she locked her five children in a bedroom closet for more than 10 hours before finding two of them dead.

Ebyan Farah, 28, said she was “not in her right mind” when she put the children in an upstairs closet and secured it by pushing a bed to the closet door, according to a report from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

The other children were ages 7, 5 and 1.

While they were in the closet, Farah visited with friends but refused to let them inside the house when they noticed she was acting strangely. When Farah finally opened the closet door at 4:20 p.m. Sunday, Zakariya Farah, 3, and his sister, Zuhur Farah, 5, were dead.

Farah took her children’s bodies downstairs and placed them on a couch, according to the IMPD report.

When her uncle, Mohammad Hersi, 43, came over and saw the children, he tried to call 911. Farah took the phone out of his hand and threw it.

Hersi called family friend, Ahmed Jama, 30, to the house. Jama held Farah while the uncle called 911.

Farah has been charged preliminarily with felony neglect of dependent children.

A spokeswoman for the Marion County Coroner’s office said the cause of death is pending results of toxicology test.

The prosecutor’s office will ask for a 72-hour extension to file formal charges during a hearing at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Marion County Superior Court.

A probable cause affidavit that IMPD Det. Gregory “Scott” Scheid filed with the court to secure the extension recaps what he wrote in his police report.

Scheid said that one of the children was found on the living room couch and one was on the floor.

Edyan Farah is being held on $200,000 bond in the Marion County Jail and refused a request for an interview, said Julio Fernandez, a sheriff’s spokesman.

Department of Family Services Spokeswoman Ann Houseworth said that the other three children were in good physical condition and in protective custody.

Prosecutor Carl Brizzi could not be reached immediately for comment.

Indianapolis Police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said the children had been locked in the closet before.

“The 7-year-old told us this wasn’t the first time,” Duhamell said. He didn’t knowhow many other times it had happened.

The closet had metal double doors and was six feet across and 18 inches deep.

“It’s one of the most inhumane things I’ve ever seen in 28 years on the job,” Duhamell said. “They were crunched in there on top of each other with no water of food in 80-degree heat. We treat animals better than that.”

The officers who were the scene felt the same way, he said.

“They are disturbed, heartbroken,” he said.

Duhamell said the apparent cause of death is asphyxiation but the toxicology will determine if the children inhaled any deadly substances while in the closet.

Call Star reporter John Tuohy at (317) 444-6303.

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Source: http://www.wthr.com/story/13181096/impd-2-children-killed

and http://www.indystar.com/article/20100920/LOCAL18/9200312/