POLICE RELEASE INFORMATION ON CRASH THAT KILLED MOM, 23

Mother sat outside apartment window with her kids, 1 and 3.

Officers rushed to a Delray Beach townhome Saturday afternoon after a disturbing call came in: A woman and her two toddlers were perched on the narrow ledge of the building, refusing to come down.

The scene itself, said Delray Officer Rob Addea, was a bit more jarring: Rain trickled down on the 1-foot ledge near the slanted roof. And the disturbed woman was unpredictable.

“I could tell right away she wasn’t in touch with reality,” said Addea, the first officer at the scene.

It isn’t clear what led up to the moment the 23-year-old mother took her 1-year-old son and 3-yearold daughter onto the ledge via an apartment window.

There wasn’t time to find out when Addea and two police sergeants, Brian Griffith and Mike Debree, worked to get the children to safety, knowing the children could fall about 15 or 20 feet.

“When there’s kids involved, you’re in a new gear,” Addea said. They forced their way into the townhome using a neighbor’s access code and hurried to the second floor.

Debree quickly shuffled across the ledge, his feet dangerously close to the edge and wet from the rain, and grabbed the children, while the mother clung to them and refused to let go.

“They were scared out of their minds, crying, half-naked,” Debree said. He managed to usher them into the nearest window while Griffith restrained the shouting mother, still sitting on the ledge.

Griffith eventually pulled the mother to safety, too.

No one was hurt during the rescue, which was captured by police body cameras.

The mother was taken to a mental health facility, and the children are in the care of the state’s Department of Children and Families.

Because the incident involves children and the mother’s mental health, the department did not release the address or the names of the mother and children.

The 23-year-old woman told police she’d taken “Molly,” a pure powder form of ecstasy, and was hallucinating, according to the police report.

The department hasn’t pressed charges, but the case is still open, the officers said.

The police report reads: It was “miraculous” that the children were unharmed.