Mom Indicted In Stabbing Deaths Of Husband, 4 Kids

LOGANVILLE, GA — A Gwinnett County grand jury has indicted a Loganville woman accused of stabbing to death her husband and four of her five children in July.

Isabel Martinez, 33, faces charges of murder, aggravated assaults and cruelty to children. The indictments were handed down on Thursday.

Authorities received a 911 call at 4:47 a.m.on July 6 from a woman at a mobile home on Emory Lane in Loganville. Police say that woman was Martinez, who is now in jail and being held for federal immigration officials.

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The children killed in the stabbings are:

• Isabela Martinez, 10
• Dacota Romero, 7
• Dillan Romero, 4
• Axel Romero, 2

Also killed was Martinez's husband, 33-year-old Martin Romero. A fifth child, 9-year-old Diana Romero, also was seriously injured in the attack. She was treated at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and released nearly three weeks later.

The day after the stabbings, Martinez made a bizarre first court appearance. In a jailhouse jumpsuit, she smiled broadly and repeatedly gave a two-handed "thumbs up" sign to news cameras. She made a hand gesture that looked like prayer several times and, at one point, dropped to her knees as if praying before being told by a sheriff's deputy to return to her seat.

With the help of a translator, told a judge that she didn't want an attorney, but was appointed one anyway.

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Photos courtesy Gwinnett County Police Department, GoFundMe