( CNN ) It was a shocking and gruesome scene : Police officers in hazmat suits retrieving dead infants among `` mounds of used diapers and feces '' from a Massachusetts home back in September . Three bodies in total were found amid the squalor at 23 St. Paul Street in Blackstone , a town on the Rhode Island border , and on Tuesday , their mother was charged with murder in the deaths of two of them . Erika Murray , 31 , was indicted on nine charges in all , according to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early . Those charges included neglect , abuse , reckless endangerment , concealing a fetal death and even animal cruelty in addition to the murder charges . She 's being held on $ 1 million bail . Her boyfriend , who also lived at 23 St. Paul , was also indicted Tuesday , but not on charges of murder . Ray Rivera , 38 , was indicted on two counts of assault and battery on a child causing substantial bodily injury , two counts of reckless endangerment of a child , two counts of cruelty to animals and one count of cultivating marijuana . He is being held on $ 100,000 bail . `` He 's making absolutely no statement at this time other than to absolutely deny these allegations , '' Rivera 's attorney Nicole Longton said according to CNN affiliate WHDH . Father says he was unaware of the children . Both Rivera and Murray maintain that he not only never knew about the three infants he fathered that died in his home , he also was somehow unaware of two of the four living ones that the state removed from his 1,150-square-foot home . DNA tests determined that Rivera was the father of all seven , according to WHDH . `` It is a mystery to me how Mr. Rivera could have failed to notice ( the ) numerous pregnancies ( of ) the woman with whom he shared a bed , '' Murray 's attorney told CNN in September . `` It 's a mystery to me how he could have failed to realize that there were two children living under the same roof as him , and he did n't know about it . '' That attorney , Keith Halpern , told CNN Tuesday that according to Murray , only one of the three infants was born alive , and it lived only a very brief time . `` ( Murray ) put it down for a nap , she left it alone for an hour or two and when she came back , it was n't breathing , '' he said . Halpern said he had not yet read the grand jury proceedings , but it was his understanding that `` there was no evidence presented indicating Erika had done anything to cause the death of any of the children , '' and that the medical examiner `` testified that there was no determination made regarding the cause or means of death . '' Early said the murder charges stem from the two infants who were found dressed in onesies and diapers , but according to Halpern , that is not an indication that they were ever alive . `` That is nothing more than an inference that the baby was ever alive . '' CNN affiliate WCVB reported in October that the skeleton of one of the three infants was found stuffed inside a backpack inside the closet of the bedroom shared by the two children Rivera knew about .
Mother charged with murder months after dead infants found in squalid home . DA : " We have to do something about this problem and we are going to get it fixed as soon as possible."