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'Voodoo curse' man drowns kids
31/08/2006 22:50 - (SA)
New York - A father, convinced he was the victim of a voodoo curse, apparently drowned his two young children in the bath and then jumped to his death in front of a subway train, said police on Thursday.
Franz Bordes, 39, died on Wednesday evening at a Brooklyn subway station.
Investigators found several suicide notes indicating he was at odds with relatives of the children's mother, a Haitian immigrant like himself.
"They're using everything they can to destroy me, most of all voodoo," read one of the notes, according to police.
Bordes, who was unemployed, lived with Francoise Mercier, 42, and their children, Sweitzer, two, and Stephanie, four, in a flat on Staten Island.
Family told police the father usually looked after the children while Mercier worked as a nurse's aide.
After Mercier learnt Bordes was dead, she rushed home from work to check on her children, and found them in the bath, not breathing, police said.
Paramedics later pronounced them dead.
One of the suicide notes was found on Bordes' body. Six more were in the home.
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