A former high school teacher who made headlines in 2012 when she had a baby with her student was discovered dead Monday morning inside her Harlem apartment along with her 4-year-old son.
Police officers were summoned to the crime scene at 640 West 153rd Street at around 8.15am and found the lifeless bodies of 36-year-old Felicia Barahona woman and 4-year-old Miguel Barahona.
According to investigators, Ms Barahona was lying on the living room floor with an electrical cord wrapped around her neck.
Her toddler son was found drowned in the bathtub, reported ABC Eyewitness News. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The superintendent of the building called 911 early Monday morning after he noticed a foul stench coming from the family's third-floor apartment and then saw the woman’s body in the living room through the fire escape.
A source with the NYPD told New York Post it is believed the mother’s body had been in the apartment for up to four days.
The city medical examiner will determine the cause of death for both victims.
Authorities are investigating to determine whether the deaths were homicides or a murder-suicide.
