QUITMAN (KYTX)- According to the Wood County District Attorney's office, Daphne McDaniels has been indicted on 2 additional charges of injury to a child.
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A Quitman mother accused of killing her two toddlers last summer has been indicted for their murders. Daphne McDaniels was indicted February 11 on two counts of capital murder.
Last July, McDaniels' daughters, Natalye Price, 1, and Gabriella Guerrero, 3, were found dead in their beds.
Investigators aren't saying exactly what evidence lead them to indict McDaniels, but her neighbors have said all along that they had their suspicions and weren't surprised by her arrest.
"The day I found out they were murdered, I knew she did it," Selma Bell said.
Bell considers herself like a second grandmother to the dozens of kids who live in the Dogwood Villa Apartments where the girls were found dead, and says she not only saw McDaniels verbally abuse her daughters, but she also saw bruises on the girls' faces on more than one occasion.
"You should love your children, not harm them," she said. "If you don't want them, take them to someone who will care for them the way they're supposed to be."
The indictments show McDaniels intentionally killed her daughters by striking them with her hands and feet.
The toddlers died from blunt force injuries to their heads, according to the autopsy reports, and their deaths were ruled homicides.
Initially, McDaniels' boyfriend, Thomas Liles, was charged in the case for tampering with evidence after throwing drug paraphernalia into a dumpster outside McDaniels' apartment the day the girls were found dead.
And on the same day McDaniels was indicted on those capital murder charges, Liles was charged and indicted on two counts of injury to a child.
A gag order has been placed on the case, so investigators aren't talking, but the Texas Department of Children and Family Services tells CBS19 it investigated the family for allegations of medical and physical neglect before the girls' deaths.
