There was confusion after police released their initial statements about a double-murder last week that claimed the lives of two young children in Hunters Point about the woman they arrested for the crime. But it's been confirmed that she was the mother of the children.

Paulesha Green-Pulliam, 34, appeared in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday for an arraignment. As the Chronicle reports, Green-Pulliam entered a plea of not guilty, and she is being represented by Deputy Public Defender Phoenix Streets. Streets requested in court that Green-Pulliam undergo medical and psychological examinations before her next court appearance, which has been scheduled for next week.

The circumstances of the two girls' deaths have not been publicly shared and were not discussed in today's hearing. But we now know that the two victims were Green-Pulliam's 1-year-old daughter Paragon, and her 5-year-old daughter Justice.

Both girls were found unresponsive last Friday morning, December 23, at a home on the unit block of Navy Road in Hunters Point. Both parents were reportedly on the scene at the time of the girls' deaths. Both girls were pronounced dead at the scene after medics attempted life-saving measures. The official cause of death still has not been revealed, and may not yet be determined.

The public defender, Streets, spoke to reporters following the hearing, per the Chronicle, saying, "We really don't know what's going on or what happened. It's a very tragic situation and circumstance for everyone involved."

Streets asked that everyone "reserve judgement" in the case, and added, "We’re going to find out what happened, but it's going to take a little bit of time to get through all the evidence.”

First responders were reportedly very emotional at the scene last Friday, with SFPD Deputy Chief Raj Vaswani saying in a tweet that the scene was Absolutely horrible and is extremely hard on our Homicide Investigators, CSI, Officers, Fire, DEM911, ME's Office, and Community."

Previously: SF Woman Charged With Murder In Incident That Killed Two Children In Bayview

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A woman was arrested Wednesday in Mountain View after an autopsy revealed that an infant boy she claimed was stillborn was actually alive at birth and died from "significant injuries."

31-year-old Jennifer Tupper is in custody and is suspected of killing her newborn son and discarding the remains outside her home. Mountain View police say that a friend of Tupper's called the Mountain View Police Department Emergency dispatch center on Monday around 2:30 p.m. and said that her friend had just given birth and the baby was stillborn.

As KPIX reports, police officers arrived at the home on the 2000 block of Leghorn Street and found the baby "discarded" outside the home. Paramedics took Tupper to the hospital for treatment, and Mountain View detectives began investigating the case, under the Santa Clara County Child Abuse Protocol. An autopsy would reveal that the infant sustained serious injuries after being born alive.

Tupper was subsequently arrested Wednesday after being released from the hospital. Police say they believe Tupper acted alone.

"We all know just how vulnerable babies are and innocent they are so it hits home on a lot of different fronts for a lot of us," says Mountain View Police Chief Chris Hsiung, speaking to KTVU.

Mountain View Police Sgt. David Fisher tells KTVU that the friend who called police about the birth seemed to have suspicions of her own.

"She got that funny feeling when she wasn’t getting full information so she made a call to the county communications," Fisher says.

After interviewing Tupper, Fisher says, "She made varying statements that were somewhat consistent with what she told, with what the friend told us but there was also several inconsistencies as well."

According to KTVU, Tupper is divorced and moved to the Bay Area from Washington sometime recently. A Facebook page that appears to belong to Tupper listed her location as Vista, California, in San Diego County, and it showed her working as a colorist and salon manager at a hair salon in Kennewick, Washington as of 2019.

Mountain View police say they are still trying to gather information about the infant's father.

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A suspect with a history of prior arrests for domestic incidents has been arrested and charged in the April 20 death of a 7-month-old boy in San Francisco who had been left in his care.

District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced murder charges Monday against 26-year-old Joseph Williams, stemming from the death last week of an infant identified only as Baby S. The child, who is not related to Williams, was brought in to California Pacific Medical Center by Williams with signs of blunt force trauma to the head, as KRON4 reports, and the baby then died.

"The death of Baby S is a tragedy," Boudin said in a release. "We are so deeply sorry for the family, whose enormous grief we can only imagine."

"My office has filed murder charges and we will put every resource at our disposal into prosecuting this case,” he said. "We know nothing can make the family whole again, but we will work our hardest to make sure there is justice. Please know that our office is mourning with and for you."

The baby's full name, according to the Chronicle, was Synciere Williams.

As KPIX is reporting, prosecutors say that Williams was implicated in two prior incidents of alleged domestic violence in 2021 involving a girlfriend who is not the mother of Baby S. In both cases, Williams was freed without being charged because of a lack of evidence to prove that he, and not the girlfriend, was criminally responsible for the incident.

"We believe the available facts of these two cases supported the decision to not move forward with charges, but that is not enough," Boudin’s office said in the release, addressing what will likely become another knock against Boudin in the ongoing battle to recall him. "In light of this tragedy, we will be reviewing all policies related to charging domestic violence crimes, including discussions with our law enforcement partners to ensure we are all using best practices to obtain admissible evidence and to support victims."

The Chronicle reports that the reason charges were not filed in the two incidents was the girlfriend declined to cooperate with prosecutors.

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A deceased infant was found on a conveyor belt amid trash and recyclables Friday morning at a waste-sorting facility in San Jose.

Workers called 911 at 3:31 a.m. to report the discovery, which happened at the GreenWaste Recovery facility located at 625 Charles Street, as KPIX reports. Arriving officers, crime scene investigators and members of the Santa Clara Coroner’s Office were all on the scene Friday, and the cause and manner of death has not yet been determined.

GreenWaste is the trash and recycling collector for the San Jose area, much as Recology is for San Francisco. The Charles Street facility appears to be one of two main sorting facilities — described on the company website as its "Dirty MRF" or materials recovery facility, where municipal solid waste from single family homes and multi-family complexes is sorted and separated, with organic materials getting sent for composting.

As the Mercury News explains, this facility "processes residential and commercial waste, as well as recyclable materials." The company says this facility processes 90 tons of waste per hour.

The identity of the child has not yet been determined, and will only be made public if and when the next of kin have been informed.

In Alameda County Superior Court yesterday, 23-Year-old Ashley Newton of San Jose pled not guilty to the stabbing death of her 7-month old son. When she was arrested in a regional park outside of Livermore, California, she apologized to police officers, "I'm sorry, I killed my baby."

On April 26th, East Bay Regional Park police officers were responding to reports of traffic collision on Arroyo Road when they found an abandoned Honda. Newton was in the road, "holding a lifeless baby in her arms," a police report said.

But True Crime blogger and former FBI agent Jim Fisher, dug deeper into the story. According to Fisher, witnesses saw a woman repeatedly ramming her Honda Civic into a stone wall near Camp Arroyo, but the woman was gone by the time police arrived. Two hours later, Mike Harris, an off-duty police chief from nearby Livermore, was getting into his car with his wife and kids about 200 yards away from the wreck when Newton came stumbling out of the woods, covered in blood and holding her son:

Shortly after the chief's daughters climbed into the family vehicle, a young woman wearing a sweatshirt and jeans caked in blood approached the Harris family. In her arms she carried a blond-haired, 7-month-old boy dressed in Cookie Monster diapers and a blue striped pullover. The child was also covered in blood. The distraught woman handed the boy to the chief. "Take him! Take him!" she yelled before climbing into the car with the chief's daughters.

The police chief assumed that the woman and her son had been injured in the nearby wrecked Honda. He alerted officers and paramedic personnel who were down the road investigating the accident. A member of the emergency crew, shortly after starting CPR on the boy, realized that he was dead. The child had been stabbed to death.

As CBS puts it, the witnesses tried to help, but the baby was pronounced dead. According to a statement from East Bay Regional Park police Sgt. Tracy Desiderio, Newton "made several spontaneous statements indicating that she had killed the baby," and admitted to the stabbing after officers read her miranda rights.

A knife was found at the scene and Newton had apparently tried to stab herself in the wrist. She was taken to a nearby hospital before she was taken into custody and charged with murder with an enhancement clause for the knife.

The next day, during questioning at the Santa Rita Jail, Newton was described as "paranoid and detached from reality." According to the baby's father, who last saw her the day before the incident, Newton had been suffering from depression. Authorities have not released the results of their toxicology test.

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An Oakland woman sits in jail this morning on suspicion of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. Tiffany Lopez, 19, who is three months pregnant and was arrested on child endangerment charges in December, is alleged to have suffocated "Kamilah in their second-floor apartment on the 2800 block of High Street." Initially telling investigators that she accidentally sat on her daughter, the Mary Jones-esuqe mom went on to tell police that "she had become frustrated with her daughter."

According to SF Chron, Kamilah was described as a "beautiful, intelligent, energetic - a lively baby" who loved the color pink and Dora the Explorer.

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After Bridgette Arevalo, a fourth-month-old girl, was declared brain dead on Saturday, her father has been arrested in connection with her death. The suspect, Hayward resident Jose Arevalo, 26, allegedly "made statements that led officers to arrest him for child abuse." Police said that the infant was "suffering from injuries that doctors thought were consistent with shaken baby syndrome." [KCBS]

Lamar Franklin, 21, was charged with the shaking death of his infant son last week. According to reports, Berkeley police responded to a call around 4:40 p.m. on Friday regarding 'a choking infant" over in the in the 1300 block of Ward Street. After the 5-month-old infant was whisked away to Children's Hospital in Oakland, he later died in Tuesday. Franklin was charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. If convicted, this would make Berkeley's fourth homicide of the year.

What with prom season in the air, and at the risk of sounding crude, it's only natural for things like this to happen. See, a dead infant was found inside a dumpster in Union City, according to reports. A person looking through the dumpster for glass bottles, it seems, came across the nascent body near the Parkside Apartments at 1501 Decoto Rd. at around 8:40 p.m. last night. While the infant's race, gender and age are not yet know, anyone with information is urged to contact the Union City Police Department at 510-471-1365, or the anonymous tip line 510-675-5207.