Babysitter accused of killing three children in US

An American baby sitter already accused of killing a pregnant friend was charged today with drowning the woman’s three children in a bath tub and then hiding their bodies in the family’s washing machine and dryer.

Grand jurors indicted Tiffany Hall, 24, on three counts of first-degree murder in the East St Louis deaths last September of DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall-Collins, 2, and Jinela Tunstall, 1.

A county coroner’s jury ruled the deaths of the children, their mother, Jimella Tunstall, and her foetus to be homicides.

Hall, already charged with Tunstall’s murder and intentional homicide in the death of her foetus, could face the death penalty if convicted.

During the coroner’s inquest last week, Illinois State Police investigator David Bivens testified that Hall admitted beating the pregnant Tunstall over the head with a table leg, then cutting her foetus from the womb in a bathtub, where she later drowned Tunstall’s three children.