The mother of a 1-year-old twin found dead Sunday in Milford says she is “tired of people making assumptions” about how her daughter died.
“I don’t know the exact answers, as I live out of state,” Erika Dupuis posted on Facebook.
Dupuis describes herself on social media as a “red neck Barbie” now “living the best life” in West Virginia.
Dupuis, estranged from a Milford man, said she doesn’t know yet how her daughter Eleanora died.
“We don’t know if she froze or if she starved,” the mother said. “We don’t know if she was in the house or in the truck.”
Police found the little girl Sunday “unresponsive” at a Milford house, which the mother says “has no running water or heat.”
In a Facebook farewell Tuesday to her daughter, pictured in her lap, Dupuis posted, “Mommy’s going to miss you chunky.”
Dupuis said she wasn’t able to take her children with her when she left Maine recently to move to West Virginia.
She said she left Maine “because of not being safe.”
“I’ve been in constant contact with my kids the whole time,” she said. “My kids were safe, fed, clothed, and I made sure to leave $4,000 behind.”
The money was meant partly to “fix the water,” she said.
“I wish people would stop making assumptions,” she added. “Look, I don’t know the exact answers.”
Cops found a surviving twin girl and 3-year-old sibling alongside the unresponsive twin when they arrived at the Milford house Sunday.
The three children were reportedly together when cops found them in Milford after receiving a 911 call that Eleanora was possibly dead.
Eleanora’s twin and older sibling were briefly hospitalized in the same incident.
Robert Kearns of Bangor, whose organization “People 207” has begun a GoFundMe campaign for the family, told The Maine Wire Tuesday he is working to get the surviving children placed with their grandparents.
