Mother charged in two girls’ drowning deaths

? A woman on Tuesday was charged in the bathtub drowning deaths of her two young daughters, and was being held in jail on suicide watch.

City prosecutors filed two counts of aggravated murder against Amber Hill, 22, after a coroner ruled the deaths of the girls, ages 4 and 2, were homicides.

Hill had no documented history of neglecting the girls, but had herself been the victim of abuse by their father, Jamie Cintron, according to authorities and court records. Hill was to appear in court this morning.

Cintron, 23, said Hill called him at work Monday and said their children “are at peace,” police Lt. Thomas Stacho said. He then went to the woman’s apartment and pulled the girls from the water in the bathtub.