Father charged with killing his children

A FATHER has been charged with murdering his newborn baby and two-year-old daughter in North Carolina, police said.

The bodies of four-day-old Genesis Freeman and toddler Serenity Freeman were found yesterday near an intersection close to the city of Raeford, Hoke County sheriff Hubert Peterkin said.

Tillman Freeman III, 30, of Fayetteville, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Genesis and Serenity Freeman.