Dad who lost sons still insists accused killer Bronx mom Dimone Fleming is ‘good mother’

The boyfriend of a Bronx mother accused of killing his child boy and toddler stepson insists she is “a great mom” and says he has forgiven her as a result of she was “possessed.”

Columbus Canada advised The Put up on Tuesday that he's standing by Dimone “Brenda” Fleming, 22, who's accused of killing Canada’s 11-month-old son Octavius Canada and 3-year-old stepson Daishawn Fleming within the bathtub of a homeless shelter.

“She is an efficient particular person, a great mom,” the grieving dad stated, including that he noticed no warning indicators she had gone off the deep finish earlier than Saturday’s horror.

“I didn’t know any of that as a result of that was not her,” he stated. “I forgive her. She was possessed.”

Fleming had allegedly bashed Canada in a cellphone name to her dad hours earlier than the killings, saying she felt “smothered” by their relationship, her father beforehand advised The Put up.

However Canada nonetheless defended the accused killer, saying, “All she ever does is worrying and caring” about her kids.

Columbus Canada stated he forgave his girlfriend for allegedly killing his child son and tot stepson.

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“Everyone who is aware of her is aware of the sort of particular person she is. She is an efficient caring mom,” he stated. “I do know her occurring three years, and I’ve by no means seen something like that, not even by means of the medical doctors, nothing.”

Fleming, who has been a fugitive on a child-pornography case out of Pennsylvania, had been investigated by town’s Administration for Kids’s Companies a number of years in the past over Daishawn, however that was earlier than Canada met her, he stated.

Dimone is accused of brutally stabbing the youngsters, then leaving their our bodies within the bathtub below piles of clothes.

Octavius Canada, an 11-month-old boy, was considered one of two kids discovered stabbed to dying in a Bronx homeless shelter.

Dimone Fleming’s boyfriend stated he noticed no crimson flags forward of the horrific crime.

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The grieving dad, who had taken Daishawn as his personal son, did level the finger on the shelter after the slayings.

“It might have been averted. They need to do their job,” he stated.

“They're supposed to ensure households are secured and secure.”

Canada’s sister-in-law, Penny Singleton, stated she had supplied to take the infants if Dimone wanted a break.

Columbus Canada is comforted outdoors the scene of the killings.

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“If you happen to knew you had been having points or issues, why didn’t you attain out to any person?” Singleton, 33, stated. “Why didn’t you inform considered one of us? Why didn’t you clarify, ‘Look, I can’t do that proper now, any person assist [me].’ Don’t take it out on the youngsters. That’s the craziest factor you could possibly ever do.”

Singleton stated Canada had three kids, together with two with Singleton’s sister, and took on Daishawn and one different youngster as his personal.

“Columbus loves her. … He nonetheless loves her. He is an efficient particular person.  He forgives her,” she stated.

Columbus Canada leaves the shelter the place his 1-year-old son and 3-year-old stepson had been allegedly stabbed to dying by his girlfriend.

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Singleton stated she nonetheless has problem processing what occurred.

“I might have by no means pictured her doing one thing like this as a result of she beloved these children. She did!” she stated.

“However I nonetheless need to know why, what brought about this? I don’t get it, I don’t perceive it.

“These infants had been simply completely happy, completely happy children.”