Shock as mother admits killing her three-year-old son twice

The mother of a child found buried at an Albuquerque, N.M., playground has admitted to suffocating her son, reviving him in a fit of remorse, and then suffocating him again, police said.

Albuqeurque police have arrested Tiffany Toribio on murder and abuse charges nearly a week after her 3-year-old son was found buried under the swings at Alvarado Park.

Officer Nadine Hamby saidthat Toribio is a transient who told police she murdered her little boy, Ty, May 15 after deciding she didn't want him to grow up knowing his mother didn't want him.



Her parents didn't want her, Hamby said, and "she didn't want him."

So while Ty - whom she alternately called "Tyree" and "Tyruss" - slept, Toribio "puts her hands over his little mouth and nose and proceeds to suffocate him," Hamby said.

Hamby said Toribio told police she then had a change of heart and used CPR to revive her lifeless son. Once he was breathing again, Toribio changed her mind yet again and suffocated him "until he has died," Hamby said.