FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Amber Pasztor spoke for the first time from jail with a reporter from WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., and admitted she smothered her own children to death.
Pasztor said she wanted to keep her children safe and usher them to heaven.
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She faces two charges of murder in Elhkart County for the deaths of 6-year-old Rene Pasztor and 7-year-old Liliana Hernandez. Pasztor spoke with reporter Brett Thomas via videoconference from jail.
Brett Thomas: "Who did you smother first?"
Amber Pasztor: "My daughter."
Thomas: "Then Rene?"
Pasztor: "Yeah, he wanted to go with her."
Thomas: "Really?"
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Pasztor: "I gave him a choice."
Thomas: "What'd you say to them?"
Pasztor: "That they can live traumatized like their mom, or they can go to Heaven and with God and be better off."
Thomas: "And they chose to go to Heaven?"
Pasztor: "Yes."
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Thomas: "What did they say? Did they say they want to go to Heaven, or did they just agree?"
Pasztor: "My daughter said she would kill herself first before somebody hurt her."
Thomas: "So you put your hands over their mouths, did they fight you at all?"
Pasztor: "A little bit, yeah."
Pasztor also said she killed a neighbor who she went camping with. She has not yet been charged in that case.