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Ada County Sheriff’s OfficeAn Idaho mother charged with killing her twin toddlers will remain in jail after a judge revoked her bond.
Prosecutors believe Andrea Shaw, 23, suffocated her children, who were found dead in their cribs in May 2025.
Shaw, who has yet to enter a plea in the case, has blamed vaccines for their deaths.
Her attorney had asked for the $2m (£1.48m) bond Shaw had been held on to be reduced to $100,000 so that she could be released to be with her youngest child, who was born just days before her arrest.
However, the judge ordered that her bond be revoked entirely, saying she viewed Shaw as a threat to her new child.
Shaw’s lawyer, Joseph Filicetti, whom the BBC has contacted him for comment, told US media Shaw is a caring mother who should be released to nurse her newborn and to recover after having a caesarean section.
Prosecutors in Idaho’s Payette County, however, said Shaw should not “be allowed to be anywhere near any children, let alone her own children”.
“This is not a vaccine case,” one prosecutor said. “This is a case where a mother unfortunately has killed her two children.”
Last year, following the deaths of her twins, Shaw gave an interview to Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, during which she and her husband recounting their stories of the twins’ deaths.
Shaw said they had found the 18-month-olds, Dallas and Tyson, dead and face-down in their cribs eight days after they had been given vaccines for hepatitis A, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and the flu.
She said they later became unwell and that she had taken them to the hospital days later, where she said she was told the children could be having a reaction to the shots. They were given pain medication but died two days later.
Shaw said that when police questioned her about the children’s deaths, they suggested it “wasn’t medical” and that she was to blame.
Medical autopsies related to the investigation have not yet been released. The Payette Police Department said Shaw’s arrest was a result of a “lengthy and thorough investigation”.
Shaw is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by Children’s Health Defense and others against the American Academy of Pediatrics for its childhood vaccine recommendations.
Public health experts and doctors continue to emphasise the safety of vaccines, which help prevent a host of illnesses. While side effects from vaccines are possible, serious harm is much more rare.
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