Horrific final moments of twin toddlers 'killed by mom's terrible mistake' are revealed by distraught grandma

A distraught grandma has told of however 1 of her duplicate toddler grandsons turned bluish arsenic some died aft allegedly being exposed to their mother's fentanyl haul.  

LaTina Allen sobbed arsenic she recalled performing CPR connected her three-year-old grandsons, Josiah and Jestine -- besides known arsenic Jojo and Juju -- connected July 11.

Allen said she and her daughter, Jestice James, were astatine their Canoga Park, Calif. flat that day erstwhile she heard James screaming for help.

The older twin, Josiah, was not moving contempt James' effort to aftermath the toddler up.

'She didn't adjacent cognize what was going on,' Allen said. 'I heard her dependable change. She kept connected saying, "Jojo! Jojo!" When I ran into the country she said thing was wrong.'

Allen said she grabbed the small boy, but Josiah had already turned blue. 

'I turned astir and told my relative to telephone 911,' the grandma said. 'I was panicking and wasn't doing CPR right, truthful my different daughter, Jestina, called 911.'

In their panic, Allen said they didn't recognize the younger twin, Jestice, besides was not breathing. 

'We were truthful disquieted astir Jojo that we didn't announcement Juju besides needed help,' Allen recalled. 

Allen said their neighbors besides tried to bash CPR connected the twins. Paramedics who arrived astir 5 minutes aboriginal utilized a Narcan spray connected the boys, which is utilized to reverse an opioid overdose. 

Jestice responded to the Narcan and moved a small bit, but Josiah's tiny assemblage was lifeless, the grandma told DailyMail.com.

'They took each successful abstracted ambulances and my girl was screaming to beryllium with her kids,' Allen said. 'We thought we would beryllium capable to spell successful the ambulance with them, but they said, "No ma'am, it's excessively critical. We can't fto you spell with them." 

'We conscionable sat downstairs successful shock. Three hours later, they took my girl into custody.'

The boys were rushed to a adjacent hospital, but it was excessively late. Josiah died aboriginal that afternoon, portion Jestine died 2 days later.

Los Angeles County prosecutors charged James, 22, with 2 counts of execution and 2 counts of kid abuse/endangerment nether circumstances oregon conditions apt to origin large bodily harm oregon death.

Prosecutors allege the twins were exposed to drugs laced with fentanyl, but would not spell into further item arsenic to however the children came successful interaction with the deadly opioid.

James' fellow besides was astatine the flat the time successful question, household members said. 

Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami said the lawsuit is the archetypal successful LA County wherever a genitor accused of  'pediatric vulnerability to illicit fentanyl' is facing execution charges. 

'The LAPD Abused Child Unit has done an outstanding occupation investigating this case,' Hatami told DailyMail.com connected Wednesday. 'Their probe is ongoing, including looking astatine immoderate imaginable further defendants.' 

Hatami added helium is already moving connected 4 different imaginable cases wherever a kid oregon children has died successful LA County wrong the past six months due to the fact that of fentanyl exposure. 

Allen said her girl Jestice has had 'a batch of struggles' arsenic a young ma but loved her duplicate sons. 

James' older sister, Jestina, said her sister astir died a twelvemonth and a fractional agone aft she unknowingly smoked marijuana that was laced with fentanyl.

Another person who smoked the deadly batch, however, overdosed. 

'She was precise bittersweet astir her person due to the fact that helium died and they each smoked from the aforesaid thing,' Jestina, 26, said. 'It was laced and they didn't know. None of them knew.'

'That's what we don't understand. She knew however unsafe this was. She would ne'er enactment her kids successful harm.' 

Court records amusement James had a anterior apprehension for felony expansive theft and was charged connected October 2022. She was placed connected probation for 2 years aft she plead blameworthy to the charge, according to tribunal records obtained by DailyMail.com.

James besides had a warrant retired for her apprehension connected a misdemeanor organized retail assistance theft charged filed successful December 2023. 

Her household said she was initially detained connected July 11 for the misdemeanor expansive theft warrant erstwhile she was past investigated and charged with the execution of her duplicate sons.

Allen said she hasn't been capable to speech to her girl since she was arrested past week. 

The grandma said she and her daughters had been stateless for astir 8 years until they secured a spot astatine the city-run affordable transitional lodging analyzable successful Canoga Park wherever the twins besides stayed.

Allen said her girl struggled to rise her boys but they ever made things work. 

'I said to her, "You cognize me. Whatever I have, they got,"' Allen said of her grandsons. 'She enactment applications successful for a occupation but she had gotten successful trouble, truthful it was hard for her. She was stealing from stores with her friends and got caught. I told her she needed to get distant from radical who volition get you successful trouble. She conscionable got into a atrocious crowd.'

The grieving grandma said she and present has to header with the tragic nonaccomplishment of her beloved grandsons but besides the anticipation that her girl volition walk the remainder of her beingness successful prison.

'I privation radical to cognize she was not a atrocious mom,' Allen said. 'She a caring and loving ma towards her kids. She would ne'er fto immoderate harm travel to them.'

James, who appeared astatine a Van Nuys courthouse connected Tuesday, remains successful jailhouse successful lieu of $4 cardinal bail. She is scheduled to look backmost successful tribunal July 31. 

At the little hearing, James fought backmost tears arsenic Allen mouthed, 'I emotion you' to her from crossed the courtroom.