The girl’s twin brother, Keon, suffered broken ribs, bruises on his groin, a broken hip and lacerated liver, but managed to survive. Three other siblings, 5, 4 and 2-years-old were also found in the filthy basement apartment.
Torabi blamed the beatings on her husband, Mohammed Torabi, 31, who jumped to his death from a Manhattan hotel roof days after his daughter’s death. Authorities said the parents were heavy drug users.
However, the story became complicated after her estranged husband killed himself by jumping off a building in midtown New York City which left police and child welfare workers striving to determine if her husband beat the twins rather than their mother.
Last year, responding officers arrived at the home in the Queens borough of New York City, to a filthy home.
Shocked investigators said the basement apartment the family of six occupied was dirty. Police found a butcher’s knife laying around, an empty cough syrup bottle on the floor,  garbage spread around the home and a dirty mattress without covers on the floor.
Authorities found three other children at the scene. Torabi’s three daughters did not have any injuries, but they were not clean and malnourished and Child protective services took custody of the children.

A neighbor set up a memorial at the home where one year old twins were beaten to death by their mother, Tina Torabi in Oct, 2018

While in custody, Tina Torabi told police her estranged husband, Mohammed beat the babies. “I was waiting for him to go and confess,” she claimed during a jailhouse interview.

Detectives didn’t believe the statements of the drug-addicted mom’s attempt to pin all the blame on her partner.
“That would be the smartest thing to say,” a law enforcement source said. “But we have nothing to corroborate that at all.”
However, everything changed in the investigation after Mohammad Torabi killed himself.
Authorities had invited the father if the battered twins for questioning. He fled and refused to speak with authorities.
Within days of the death of his daughter, Mohammad jumped from the top of a seven-story building in New York.
After the suicide more details were released on his criminal background.
Mohammad Torabi had a history of domestic violence. Additionally, Mohammad was a convicted felon.


Administration for Children’s Services said past issues with Tina were drug related, not violence. They portrayed her as a battered wife working on putting her life back together for her kids.
Detectives were reluctant to endorse the view of ACS, especially after it was revealed that At least one worker from the city’s ACS had visited the home two days before the tragic find but claimed the kids were fine.
Ultimately this line of reasoning was derailed when police investigation uncovered incriminating text messages from Tina to Mohammed on her phone.
“She complained to him how she was gonna f–k up the boy because he would not stop crying,’’ she wrote.
Tina told police that  “[her daughter] burned herself with milk, even denied seeing her husband for other a month, that “he hadn’t been there. But he had been seen with his daughter on video around the corner [from the home] at a drug store’’ just days before the tragedy was discovered, police sources said.
Police believed Tina beat her son Kian. However, her role in the death of his twin sister Elaina remained unclear.

A week later she was charged her with first-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
She faced up to 25 years in prison for the beating of Kian. Torabi pled guilty in May.
“The baby twins lived in a house of horrors with their siblings,” said Acting Queens DA John Ryan. “ Sadly one is dead and her twin brother is lucky to have survived. The mother of these children had a responsibility – not just to provide food and clothing. She had an obligation to protect them from harm. Instead, the baby girl is dead as a result of profound physical abuse. The girl’s twin brother had a long list of ghastly injuries.”