Mother of babies found in South Boston apartment freezer will not face criminal charges, Suffolk DA says

BOSTON — The mother of the four babies found frozen solid in a South Boston apartment freezer will not face criminal charges, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said Tuesday.

Alexis Aldamir, 69 — who now lives in a residential health care facility — would be “unlikely” to stand trial, the DA’s office announced, calling the case one of the most “perplexing” the prosecutor’s office had ever encountered.

“To further assess Aldamir’s cognitive ability, investigators reviewed publicly available probate court records and spoke with a lawyer for Aldamir. The information obtained suggests strongly that Aldamir would be unlikely to stand trial,” the DA’s office wrote in the announcement.

There are also many unanswered questions about the cause of death of the four babies — who were found in shoe boxes wrapped in aluminum foil inside a freezer at 838 E. Broadway in South Boston, back in November 2022.

“This investigation, which is one of the most complex, unusual and perplexing that this office has ever encountered, is now complete,” DA Kevin Hayden said in a statement. “While we have some answers, there are many elements of this case that will likely never be answered.

“We will never know exactly where or when the four babies found in Alexis Aldamir’s apartment were born,” he added. “We will never know if the four babies were born alive, and we will never know exactly what happened to them. We will never know how Alexis Aldamir concealed her pregnancies, or why she chose to do so.”

All of the babies were full term, which means they were determined to be between 37 and 40 weeks of gestational age. All four had their umbilical cords attached, and the two females had their placentas attached.

DNA tests concluded that the babies were full siblings.

The autopsy found no signs of internal or external trauma and no evidence of obvious injuries. There were no signs of food, or milk, or formula inside the babies’ stomachs.

The medical examiner found the cause of death for all the babies to be “undetermined.”

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