Grieving Bronx dad forgives girlfriend Dimone Fleming accused of murdering their baby son and boy’s brother: ‘I love her and that’s not going to change’ (EXCLUSIVE)

A grieving Bronx dad says he forgives his girlfriend charged with murdering their 11-month-old son and the boy’s half-brother.

“I want people to know what a good parent she was. She is,” Columbus Canada insisted through tears in an exclusive interview with the Daily News. “People will say a bunch of criticizing things . . . I just want you to know she was a great person. A great parent. Everything.”

“This is shocking,” he added. “I love her. And that’s not going to change no matter what.”

Canada’s girlfriend, Dimone “Brenda” Fleming, 22, has been charged with two counts each of murder and depraved indifference, cops said Monday. She is undergoing psychiatric observation at St. Barnabas Hospital.

Dimone Fleming and the older boy who died, Deshawn Fleming

“I didn’t see this coming,” Canada said. “I wish I did because things would be much different.”

He insisted he forgives her “because I know that wasn’t her.”

“I’m going to still be here (for her),” he vowed. “It’s all I can do.”

Canada on Saturday night found his baby son, Octavius Canada, and the boy’s half-brother, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming, in the bathtub inside the family’s apartment in a shelter on Echo Place near the Grand Concourse in Mount Hope.

Columbus Canada

They had been stabbed numerous times, their bodies submerged in water and covered by stacks of clothing. It is not yet clear if they drowned or died from the stab wounds.

Fleming was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital for psychiatric evaluation after police first responded and found her naked on the bed, with the oven on and someone in the home saying Fleming wanted to set the place on fire.

A family friend mistakenly told cops the boys were with Columbus Canada.

Detectives have not yet figured out why Fleming killed the children.

NYPD officers and detectives investigate the fatal stabbing of two young children at an apartment building on Echo Place in Mount Hope, the Bronx, on Saturday.

Canada said living in a shelter is “stressful.”

But Octavius’ great aunt, Casey Canada, told the Daily News Sunday Fleming seemed to have bigger issues and had been talking obsessively about “demons.”

“She thought the kids were devils,” Casey Canada said. “She said she was afraid of them.”

Fleming has no prior arrest record in the city but she was charged in York County, Pa., in 2018 with child pornography, a case involving the dissemination of child sex acts in photos or on video, records show.

It appears she at one point missed a court date but her father told the New York Times the case, linked to a relationship she had with an underage boy when she was 18, has been adjudicated.

Fleming also has no documented history of mental illness, though a police source said she had been the subject of one Administration for Children’s Services complaint involving alcohol.

NYPD officers and detectives investigate the fatal stabbing of two young children at an apartment building on Echo Place in Mount Hope, the Bronx, on Saturday.

Police said when officers first responded to the home Fleming was naked on the bed, the oven was on and someone else in the apartment said Fleming wanted to set the place on fire.

That’s a side of her Canada said he has never seen before.

Now, he said, people are going to draw unfair conclusions about her.

“She just needs to know that she has love and support especially in times like this,” he said. “You know how people’s looking at her now — like she’s a bad person. Because you don’t know her. Understand?

“This is where we need to speak up and let it be known,” he added. “Whatever’s going to happen, they need to know she has support and help.”

With Nicholas Williams

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