A Somali woman allegedly locked her five children inside a closet before leaving to visit a friend

She returned later to find her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter dead inside. An Indianapolis police report said 28-year-old Edyan Farah allegedly put her five children in an upstairs closet, approximately 6 feet long and 18 inches deep, and barricaded the door with a large bed so the children could not escape. When Farah returned home about 10 1/2 hours later and opened the closet she found her 5-year-old daughter, Zuhur, and 3-year-old son, Zakariya, stiff and unresponsive, according to the report. But according to Lt. Jeff Duhmaell it's possible the children could have been left in the closet longer than the 10 hour time span indicated in Farah's report.