MARKHAM -- Renu and Movlika Elango were exactly where they should have been safest -- at home with their mom, their grandparents steps away -- and still the two little girls were killed.

Their mother now faces two first-degree murder charges after cops found her in the tub with her toddler and 3-month-old baby, her wrists and throat slashed and paint thinner spread about the bathroom.

The children's dad was out running errands and came home to find emergency crews at his Sophia Rd. home near 14th Ave. and Markham Rd., Cusimano said.

Frantic relatives including the accused's sister and her husband showed up at the house not long after police were called, around 7 p.m. Thursday.

Logan Kanapathy, a financial planner whose wife runs a medical clinic in the area, said many Sri Lankan women -- even those who have been in Canada for a long time -- suffer from depression and don't know where to turn.

"I don't hesitate to say it -- it's a male-dominated society. The women are going through a lot of pain and suffering. They don't know the system and they don't know how to get help."

The neighbourhood is mostly young Sri Lankan, Indian and Guyanese families but with its seemingly endless rows of two-car garages out front and high fences around back, it can be easy to be isolated from your neighbours, realtor Arun Chellapah said.

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