Tragic tots’ dad leaps
‘Abuse ma’s hubby kills self in Midtown
The estranged husband of the Queens mother suspected of savagely beating their twin toddlers — one fatally — flung himself to his death from the top of a Midtown hotel, where his twisted body was discovered Saturday, police sources told The Post.
Mohammad Torabi, 31, was found at 1:20 p.m., sprawled atop a third-floor air-conditioning unit at the Renaissance New York Hotel on East 57th Street. Police believe he plunged from the roof of the 17story hotel sometime Friday and had been dead for a day.
The unemployed Manhattan man left behind no note, but police say they are investigating the death as a suicide.
News of Torabi’s death came as his wife, Tina, 30, sat in Rikers for the near-fatal beating of their 13month-old son, Kian — and as cor- oners prepared an autopsy report on his twin sister, Elaina, who was found dying in the family’s Flushing home Wednesday night.
By Saturday night, the mom remained charged only with “depraved indifference” assault, alleging that her reckless conduct created a grave risk of Kian’s death.
The charge does not specify if she allegedly beat him. She is not as yet charged in the girl’s death. She has remained mum to cops. Police sources revealed investigators had been looking to question the father, who had a history of drug abuse and domestic violence against the mother.
He was convicted in Texas of misdemeanor and felony assaults against family members in 2015, records show.
“Maybe he’s the one who did all that stuff to his daughter,” one source speculated. “He must have thought, ‘I’m going to jail now.’ ”
Mohammad and Tina married in Houston in 2012 and lived in Texas before moving to New York. Sources familiar with the case have said Mohammad at some point turned his wife on to drugs.
The twins were on the city’s radar since they were born last year with opioids in their systems.
Tina won an order of protection against Mohammed in January. It ran through Oct. 10, one city source has said.
Still, the father was occasionally seen with his wife and kids, said workers at a convenience store and a CVS near the basement apartment where the family lived since March. In addition to the twins, there are sisters Mila, 2, Nadia, 4, and Ariana, 5.
“I’ve seen her taking the kids to school,” said one neighbor.
“She would have all five of them. The twins were in her arms,” the neighbor said. “She never looked like something was wrong with her, she [just] looked overwhelmed.”
Workers at the CVS remembered the kids as sweet, but “dirty” and “running amok.”
“She would always smell like urine,” a cashier who asked not to be named said of Mila.
Still, even at the precinct station house after her daughter’s death, Tina, a former pharmacy technitian, “was well-dressed, well-spoken — you wouldn’t expect that from her,” one law-enforcement source told The Post.
Kian remained Saturday in critical, but stable condition in the intensive care unit at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.
He suffered multiple broken ribs, bruises to his groin, a broken hip, a lacerated liver and severe swelling to his abdomen.
Elaina suffered bruising to the back of her head and genitals, a large wound on her abdomen and open lesions all over her body.