The twisted mother who allegedly tried to maintain 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, courtroom data present.
Lissette Soto Domenech, 64, lived in dire monetary straits for years, submitting for chapter thrice between 2023 and 2025, data present. In the meantime, she was in a position to put up $25,000 money bail following her indictment on youngster abuse costs earlier this week.
The chapter data paint an image dovetailing with neighbors’ tales of Domenech’s life falling aside and isolating herself inside her sixth-floor Riverdale condo that tragically turned a jail for her twin boys.
“She was like a bit witch,” stated a neighbor who lived on Domenech’s flooring. “In case you go close to her door, she’d shut it.”
A fateful go to by Administration of Kids’s Providers employees on Oct. 15 — after a number of failed makes an attempt to get inside, sources stated — lastly wrenched open Domenech’s door and uncovered her alleged secrets and techniques.
Sources stated Domenech stored her boys in diapers and fed them from child bottles in a bid to maintain them like newborns. As one neighbor chillingly stated, “She needed them to remain infants eternally and by no means lose them.”
One other neighbor who lived beneath Domenech stated she used to listen to the boys operating and crying all evening, together with their mom yelling. She finally immediately 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 had been infants. They appeared very tiny and thin, they had been in all probability 8 years previous on the time,” the downstairs neighbor stated. “I assumed they had been youthful. They had been very pale. Most of us thought they had been infants.”
The now-14-year-old boys are presently in foster care following three months within the hospital after an alleged 9 years of abuse and a child food-based hunger weight loss plan that left them weighing simply over 50 kilos every, sources stated.
Domenech pleaded not responsible this week to youngster abuse costs and was freed on a $25,000 money bond, courtroom data 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 data present she repeatedly claimed to don’t have any actual earnings and substantial money owed, largely from the side-by-side residences she owned contained in the Mosholu Avenue co-op constructing.
The path of courtroom data 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, nonetheless, was dismissed just a few months later after she failed to supply a full listing of collectors and successfully ghosted the courtroom.
Domenech returned to chapter courtroom in 2024, this time submitting for Chapter 13 plan that will 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, data present.
By June the following 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 earnings in addition to $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 assist” cost he obtained.
Neighbors stated Domenech’s husband was Yosef Inexperienced, a kindly man whom she kicked out of their house however would nonetheless come by with luggage of meals. He lately died of most cancers, they stated.
The hubby’s laborious 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 house, plus one other condo subsequent door the place neighbors stated Inexperienced had lived.
The submitting exhibits a handful of different belongings comparable 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 earnings to collectors, they rejected the concept, arguing that certainly one of her residences should be bought to fulfill their mortgage.
A choose agreed with the financial institution, signing a December order — roughly two months after the youngsters had been taken from house — 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 condo twice in December 2024 and March 2025 after receiving calls a couple of foul odor, sources stated. The primary go to was recorded as unfounded, whereas cops took some unspecified motion through the second, the sources stated.
A faint odor nonetheless wafted from the condo’s closed door Friday. One resident had put an air air purifier outdoors the condo.
Domenech couldn’t be reached for remark.
When The Publish visited a Harlem condo Friday that roughly a dozen neighbors stated was Domenech’s household house, a lady refused to open the door.
She denied anybody with the household’s identify lived within the house.
Further reporting by Desheania Andrews and Larry Celona
