The drug-addled Queens mom whose baby daughter was found beaten to death and abused twin son critically injured told The Post on Sunday that her husband attacked the kids before committing suicide.
Tina Torabi, 30, was at first tight-lipped when met by a Post reporter for a jailhouse visit on Rikers Island — then opened up upon learning that hubby Mohammad Torabi had leaped to his death from a Midtown hotel Friday.
The mom — who is charged with the assault of her critically injured 13-month-old son, Kian, while authorities await the autopsy results of the boy’s dead twin sister, Elaina — gasped and wept when told of Mohammad’s suicide.
Covering her mouth with her hands, then clutching them to her stomach as though pained, she nodded when asked if he was the one who really hurt the two youngest of their five kids.
“I was waiting for him to go and confess,” Tina said. “But …” she trailed off, the tears coming harder.
Torabi nodded again when asked if her relationship with Mohammad had been tumultuous, then wiped her eyes, thanked the reporter for the news of her husband and ended the interview.
Some cop sources balked at her trying to pin all the blame on Mohammad, noting that she lied to them when she said she hadn’t seen him — and sent potentially damning text messages to him the day the hell house was uncovered.
“She complained to him how she was gonna f–k up the boy because he would not stop crying,’’ a source said. “We believe she was the aggressor on the boy.”
Another source added, “She claimed [her daughter] burned herself with milk, even denied seeing her husband for other a month.”
But she “was lying,’’ a high-ranking police source said. “She said he hadn’t been there. But he had been seen with his daughter on video around the corner [from the home] at a drug store’’ just days before the Flushing house of horrors was discovered Wednesday night.
Tina called 911 to the home Wednesday evening, and responders found Elaina bruised, burned and dying, Kian critically-wounded with several broken bones and their three older kids marred by signs of neglect, law-enforcement sources have said.
Elaina, who died at the hospital within the hour, had bruising and open lesions across her body, as well as evidence of older injuries.
Kian remains in critical but stable condition at Queens’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center with a litany of gruesome injuries including broken ribs, a broken hip, a leg fracture, and a lacerated liver.
At least one worker from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services had visited the home two days before the tragic find but claimed the kids were fine, sources have said.
Cops had been looking to question Mohammad, a convicted felon with a history of drug use and domestic abuse, since the discovery, but he was nowhere to be found — until Saturday.
Then, his lifeless body was found crumpled on a third-floor air conditioning unit outside the Renaissance New York Hotel on East 57th Street, having leaped to his death sometime Friday, sources said.
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