'BEATEN TO DEATH'
Trauma wounds on both Bx. tots
Both of the young Bronx siblings who died this week were “beaten to death,’’ a law-enforcement source told The Post on Tuesday.
An autopsy on Olivia Gee, 2, on Monday showed that she died of blunt-force trauma to the torso, and results of the postmortem performed on her brother, Micah, 3, on Tuesday indicated the same cause of death, sources said.
Authorities have ruled out that their injuries could have been caused by any CPR that might have been performed on them by their mother and her boyfriend, sources said.
The mom, Jade Spencer, a 31-year-old nurse practitioner, and her boyfriend, Novell Jordan, 31, had been questioned by cops Monday. They were released before authorities received the autopsy results, sources said.
At the time, Jordan, who was not the kids’ father, was “cooperating,’’ said a source familiar with the investigation.
But he retained a lawyer Monday night and is no longer talking, the source said.
Spencer remained in the psych ward at Montefiore Medical Center with cops stationed outside her room.
“At least one of them knows what happened, and we have to figure out which one,’’ the source said of the couple.
“We don’t have enough to charge [anyone] at this point . . . This is baffling to us all.’’
Investigators were poring over the mom’s medical, phone and computer records.
Both her and Jordan’s stories about the tots’ deaths have been consistent — and neither has blamed the other, sources said.
A co-worker of the tots’ dad, Greg Gee, would only tell The Post on Tuesday that the father had taken the week off “for a family emergency.’’
Greg Gee’s aunt, Sandy Gee, questioned why Spencer and Jordan were let go before the autopsy results came in.
“I understand that these are just allegations . . . But I just can’t imagine two kids suffering an asthma attack at the same time and dying at the same moment — that just doesn’t seem real to me,” she said.
Spencer and Jordan had told cops that the children died after asthma attacks, claiming that the boyfriend discovered them having trouble breathing in their beds at the mom’s Van Cortlandt Park South home.
Mayor de Blasio issued a statement Tuesday that said he grieved for both the kids and the family.
“As a parent, it’s very painful for me to think about the death of these two children and what the family is going through right now,” he said.