The twisted mother who allegedly tried to hold her teen boys “infants eternally” had $0 in her checking account and was $300,000 in debt shortly earlier than her Bronx home of horrors was found, court docket information present.
Lissette Soto Domenech, 64, lived in dire monetary straits for years, submitting for chapter 3 times between 2023 and 2025, information present. In the meantime, she was in a position to submit $25,000 money bail following her indictment on baby abuse expenses earlier this week.
The chapter information paint an image dovetailing with neighbors’ tales of Domenech’s life falling aside and isolating herself inside her sixth-floor Riverdale condominium that tragically turned a jail for her twin boys.
“She was like somewhat witch,” mentioned a neighbor who lived on Domenech’s flooring. “For those who go close to her door, she’d shut it.”
A fateful go to by Administration of Kids’s Companies staff on Oct. 15 — after a number of failed makes an attempt to get inside, sources mentioned — lastly wrenched open Domenech’s door and uncovered her alleged secrets and techniques.
Sources mentioned Domenech stored her boys in diapers and fed them from child bottles in a bid to maintain them like newborns. As one neighbor chillingly mentioned, “She wished them to remain infants eternally and by no means lose them.”
One other neighbor who lived under Domenech mentioned she used to listen to the boys working and crying all night time, together with their mom yelling. She ultimately straight complained six years in the past, forcing Domenech to open the door to speak — revealing two youngsters who appeared a lot youthful than their age.
“I assumed they have been infants. They appeared very tiny and thin, they have been most likely 8 years previous on the time,” the downstairs neighbor mentioned. “I assumed they have been youthful. They have been very pale. Most of us thought they have been infants.”
The now-14-year-old boys are at the moment in foster care following three months within the hospital after an alleged 9 years of abuse and a child food-based hunger food regimen that left them weighing simply over 50 kilos every, sources mentioned.
Domenech pleaded not responsible this week to baby abuse expenses and was freed on a $25,000 money bond, court docket information present.
How Domenech managed to pony up the five-figure bail — and even 10% of it, which is often provided by the courts — was unclear as chapter information present she repeatedly claimed to haven’t any actual revenue and substantial money owed, largely from the side-by-side residences she owned contained in the Mosholu Avenue co-op constructing.
The path of court docket information present Domenech filed for Chapter 7 chapter in 2023, claiming lower than $50,000 in bank card debt that she hoped to liquidate.
The case, nevertheless, was dismissed just a few months later after she failed to offer a full record of collectors and successfully ghosted the court docket.
Domenech returned to chapter court docket in 2024, this time submitting for Chapter 13 plan that may enable her reorganize her funds.
But once more, Domenech couldn’t meet the necessities and the case was dismissed after she didn’t make funds, information present.
By June the subsequent yr, Domenech once more sought Chapter 13 chapter in a submitting rife with particulars of family misery.
The Bronx mother claimed greater than $300,000 in money owed, $50 in money and no cash in her checking account, in line with the submitting.
She reported no revenue moreover $3,345 a month from her unnamed partner’s work as a supply man for a deli and an Uber driver, together with an unspecified month-to-month $650 “household help” fee he acquired.
Neighbors mentioned Domenech’s husband was Yosef Inexperienced, a kindly man whom she kicked out of their dwelling however would nonetheless come by with luggage of meals. He just lately died of most cancers, they mentioned.
The hubby’s exhausting work left Domenech and her then-13-year-old boys with simply $591 after month-to-month bills, in line with the submitting.
Nearly all of Domenech’s debt — roughly $287,000 — got here from the mortgage on her dwelling, plus one other condominium subsequent door the place neighbors mentioned Inexperienced had lived.
The submitting exhibits a handful of different belongings similar to a $400 wedding ceremony band, in addition to a $6,000 debt from a pair of lawsuits leveled by the co-op board.
Whereas Domemech pitched a compensation plan the place she would divert her whole family internet revenue to collectors, they rejected the concept, arguing that one in all her residences have to be bought to fulfill their mortgage.
A decide agreed with the financial institution, signing a December order — roughly two months after the youngsters have been taken from dwelling — green-lighting their proper to implement their mortgage on the alleged home of horrors and to submit it for foreclosures or sale.
The order additionally granted a two-year ban on chapter filings for the property, and slammed Domemech with over $2,000 in authorized charges and prices.
Police visited the condominium twice in December 2024 and March 2025 after receiving calls a few foul odor, sources mentioned. The primary go to was recorded as unfounded, whereas cops took some unspecified motion throughout the second, the sources mentioned.
A faint odor nonetheless wafted from the condominium’s closed door Friday. One resident had put an air air purifier outdoors the condominium.
Domenech couldn’t be reached for remark.
When The Submit visited a Harlem condominium Friday that roughly a dozen neighbors mentioned was Domenech’s household dwelling, a lady refused to open the door.
She denied anybody with the household’s identify lived within the dwelling.
Further reporting by Desheania Andrews and Larry Celona
