US mother Yui Inoue denies killing her 2 children with meat cleaver
- The bodies of the 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy were found in their flat lacerated, mutilated and ‘almost completely decapitated’
- Inoue, 40, earlier told police that ‘she was hearing voices telling her to kill her children’
An Arizona woman accused in the grisly slayings of her two children with a meat cleaver made her first court appearance on Monday, where she denied harming them.
“I did not kill anybody,” Yui Inoue, 40, said through a Japanese interpreter before a Maricopa County Superior Court commissioner in Phoenix told her not to talk about the case except with a lawyer.
Wearing an orange jumpsuit and a face mask in front of a podium, Inoue otherwise spoke little during her initial appearance, where prosecutor Jay Rademacher asked that she be held on a US$2 million cash bond.
Rademacher described how the bodies of Inoue’s 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son were found in their suburban Phoenix flat lacerated, mutilated and “almost completely decapitated”.
“These children were helpless, Your Honour, and did everything they could to fight their mother,” Rademacher said.