Two brothers, aged six and five, are found dead at the bottom of their Florida apartment complex pool after sneaking out while their mom was asleep
- Ja'Kye Joseph, 6, and Branario Minto, 5, drowned last Wednesday night at the Silver Palms Apartment Complex in North Lauderdale, Florida
- Police said their mother Wildine Joseph and other family members pulled the boys from the pool at about 9.30pm but they were unresponsive
- Their mom believes the boys somehow managed to get out of their apartment and climb over the locked pool fence while she was asleep
- Joseph said her sons were taking swimming lessons but only one of the boys had learned to swim on his own
Two young brothers have been found dead at the bottom of their Florida apartment complex pool after their mother says they sneaked out late at night to go swimming while she was asleep.
Ja'Kye Joseph, 6, and Branario Minto, 5, drowned last Wednesday night at the Silver Palms Apartment Complex in North Lauderdale where they live.
Police said their mother Wildine Joseph and other family members pulled the boys from the pool at about 9.30pm but they were unresponsive.
Ja'Kye Joseph, 6, and Branario Minto, 5, drowned last Wednesday night in their North Lauderdale apartment complex pool after sneaking out while their mom was asleep
Relatives performed CPR while they waited for first responders to arrive.
The brothers were rushed to the Northwest Medical Center where they were pronounced dead.
Their mother told reporters that she believes the boys somehow managed to get out of their apartment and climb over the locked pool fence.
'I'm so sorry. If I was there I could have saved them on time,' she said, according to Local 10.
'I will always miss my babies. I'm sorry, Ja'Kye. I'm sorry, Branario. They're only 5, and they're only 6.'
Police said their mother Wildine Joseph and other family members pulled the boys from the pool at about 9.30pm but they were unresponsive
A distraught Joseph told reporters that her boys had been learning to swim but one of them couldn't swim properly on his own
Police said their mother pulled the boys from the pool but they were unresponsive. The two brothers were pronounced dead at the hospital
Joseph said her sons were taking swimming lessons but only one of the boys had learned to swim on his own.
'He thought he could swim, but he could not swim,' she said.
Police said they are investigating the drowning deaths.
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They are trying to speak to witnesses who may have seen the boys making their way from the apartment to the pool.
Child protective services removed the 4-month-old and 1-year-old siblings of the boys from the home while they continued the investigation.
Joseph has since set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for the funerals of her two boys.
Joseph said Ja'Kye and Branario (above in 2015) were taking swimming lessons but only one of the boys had learned to swim on his own
Joseph, pictured hanging onto the pool gate where her boys drowned, believes her sons sneaked out while she was sleeping
Child protective services removed the 4-month-old and 1-year-old siblings of the boys from the home while they continued the investigation
