CLEVELAND -- A young Cleveland mother is accused of drowning her two daughters in a bathtub.

The girls' father, Jamie Cintron, was the one who discovered the bodies of 2-year-old Cesess and 4-year-old Jannelle in the bathroom of the Woodland Avenue home they shared with the girls' mother, 22-year-old Amber Hill.

Cintron talked to NewsChannel5 on Tuesday. He said Hill had seemed depressed in the last couple of weeks and even spoke of suicide, but he said he had no idea his children were in danger until he got a call from Hill while he was at work.

"I got on the phone and it's her, and I was like, 'What's wrong baby?' She said, 'I don't know how to feel anymore.' And I'm just like, 'Why? What's wrong? What's wrong?' She said the girls are resting in peace. She just hung up after that," Cintron said.

From the moment he got that phone call, Cintron feared the worst.

He rushed home to find his girlfriend but there was no sign of their two daughters.

"I got in the house. She was just sitting on the couch, just like a zombie, just sitting there. And she was looking right in my eyes, and I could tell. I couldn't hear the girls, and she just kept shaking her head, and she wasn't crying or nothing," Cintron said. "I was asking her where the girls are, she's like, 'You don't want to see them,' and I was just screaming, 'Why, where are they, where are they? Just tell me where the girls are."

He said Hill told him they were in the bathroom.

"I looked in the bathroom in the bathtub and they were just laying there, just laying in the tub, and I pulled them out one by one," he said.

Cintron now wonders how he will go on without his daughters.

"They was so happy, that's all I wanted to do was take care of them, make them happy, and the hardest thing is just how do I deal with it," he said.

Hill has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder in connection with the girls' deaths.