The preliminary hearing for a Mount Union accused of abusing six-week-old infant twins has been continued until next week.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by 6News, Ian Honorat and Shakirah Shelton are facing felony aggravated assault and child abuse endangerment charges.

Huntingdon County Children and Youth Services removed the twins, and two other children, from their Hartman Village apartment in November.

Doctors told investigators that one of the twins had as many as ten healing rib fractures, and that the other suffered as many as 15 healing rib fractures, as well as other injuries.

Mount Union police discovered that Honorat was involved in a similar child abuse investigation in New York.

As she was escorted out of the courthouse in handcuffs, Shelton told 6News that she doesn’t know how her children were injured.

“It’s wrong. I’m a good mom I take care of all of my kids. I’ve been a mom for ten years and I didn’t do anything wrong,” said Shelton. “I have no prior criminal history. I didn’t do anything wrong. I thought the hospital was where you were supposed to take your kids when they are sick.”

Huntingdon County District Attorney George Zanic told 6News the arrests came after several weeks of expert investigation.

“They’ve done a lot of testing. It wasn’t like we just wanted to arrest somebody in this case,” said Zanic. “When something like this happens to children, who are defenseless, you give people the benefit of the doubt. That’s what we did in this case. But again you come back to the medical records and say how could something like this happen?”

Honorat and Shelton are expected to face a judge at a preliminary hearing in Huntingdon next Tuesday.