Mom accused of starving 2 young girls to death after family feared Lindsay Clancy copycat

A South Carolina mom has been charged with two counts of homicide by child abuse after cops found her two infant children dead at her home, with the mother telling investigators she couldn’t remember when she last gave them anything to eat or drink.Justine Marie May told officers the last two weeks had been a “blur” and admitted to neglecting the two girls — 1-year-old Harlow and 2-year-old Emory Deacon — when they responded Tuesday to a welfare call at her home in Ladson outside Charleston, according to an affidavit obtained by WCIV.May’s relatives believed the 31-year-old was suffering from postpartum depression and wrote to her referencing the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts to express fears that she might do something similar and harm her children, the Post and Courier reported.“Lindsay Clancy is on trial right now for killing her 3 children!” wrote the female family member in the email to May in early September, referencing the triple-murder case that ended in a mistrial last month.“This has been the fresh hell your family has been living every day that you don’t communicate or let us see the girls,” the relative went on.“Would Justine do this? No.Would this dark entity that is behind Justine’s eyes do this? This haunts my worst nightmares,” the email went on.May posted screenshots of messages with her ex-boyfriend — Harlow and Emory’s father, Zachary Deacon — on her Facebook page in the weeks leading up to the two girls’ deaths, the Post and Courier reported.“This is not harassment.

I am genuinely terrified for the kids,” Deacon wrote in one of the texts.“Are you going to hurt one of the kids to get back at me?”In a separate Facebook post on Sept.

9, May reportedly complained about persistent welfare checks at her home due to Deacon calling the police.“Of course, they found absolutely nothing wrong because I am an amazing mom,” she wrote.May reportedly responded to another family member’s message...