The Tennessee child care center where twin toddlers drowned last week has a history of complaints and, two months before the kids died, it was ordered to stop operating because it was unlicensed, PEOPLE confirms. 
 
 Elijah and Elyssa Orejuela were found on Friday around 10 a.m. in the backyard pool of Om Baby day care, which was run in a home in West Knoxville. 
 
 According to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, a worker looked for the twins after the arrival of another child and found them in the deep end of the water, unresponsive. 
 
 The children were reportedly rushed to nearby East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, where Elyssa died that same day. Elijah was placed on life support and was pronounced dead two days later, according to local TV station WFMY. 
 
 They would have turned 2 in August. 
 
 “After much heartbreak, Elijah has gone to be with his sister Elyssa. They were formed together in my womb and came into the world together,” the twins’ mother, Amelia Wieand, told the Knoxville News Sentinel. “Both kids were extremely strong. She was his other half. They were soul mates and never apart. Even in death they were together.” 
 
 Wieand said they donated Elijah’s organs. 
 
 “I’ll never understand this, and I’m not sure how to live with this pain,” she said. “But to prevent another family from suffering this immeasurable pain, today Elijah became a superhero.” 
 
 A GoFundMe campaign was set up for the family to help pay for funeral expenses and medical bills. So far, more than $33,000 has been raised. 
 
 PEOPLE’s efforts to reach child care center employees or its owner, Jennifer Salley, have been unsuccessful. 
 
 Three Complaints This Year 
 
 In May, about two months before the twins died, the Tennessee Department of Human Services, which licenses child care facilities in the state, served the center with an injunction after DHS workers said that Salley was unlicensed to operate a child care center. 
 
 Because the center did not have a license, Salley could not take care of more than four unrelated children at a time for periods longer than three hours, according to DHS spokesman Sky Arnold 
 
 Salley agreed to the state’s injunction, which prevented her from “establishing, conducting, managing or operating” any kind of child care facility, Arnold tells PEOPLE. 
 
 Essentially, “it ordered her to not have any more than four unrelated children in the house at a time,” he explains. 
 
 The DHS investigation had been triggered after the state department received three complaints, according to Arnold. The complaints, obtained by the News Sentinel, were in January, March and May. 
 
 However, Arnold says state workers were only able to substantiate a claim in the May complaint that Salley had too many kids in her care, which had been alleged in other complaints. 
 
 One of the complaints alleged that Salley took payment in pain medication. Arnold says that claim has not been substantiated. 
 
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 In investigating the May complaint, a state worker visited the center on May 9 and found an infant and toddler alone and unsupervised in a dark room that “smelled strongly like feces,” according to the complaint as reported by the News Sentinel. 
 
 Salley’s apparent assistant allegedly told the worker she would change the toddler’s diaper, then she shut the door, according to the complaint. The assistant allegedly said Salley was at the doctor at the time. 
 
 The worker observed six children in another room of the home, according to the paper’s account of the complaint. 
 
 On another occasion, according to the News Sentinel, two more DHS evaluators allegedly stopped by the home but no one answered the door. Still, the evaluators said that they could hear children inside singing. 
 
 According to DHS employees, an online advertisement for Salley’s center — later taken down — stated that the business was licensed and that Salley was trained in CPR and first aid, according to the News Sentinel. 
 
 Salley allegedly told investigators she had not pursued her business license due to fire safety requirements. 
 
 Investigation Is Ongoing 
 
 According to Arnold, the DHS is not alleging that Salley violated the injunction preventing her from operating a child care facility and as such they do not believe that, at the time of the toddlers’ drowning, she was taking care of more than four kids for longer than three hours. 
 
 Both the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the state’s Department of Children’s Services are investigating the incident. 
 
 Sheriff’s spokeswoman Hillary Martin tells PEOPLE “the case will be presented to the D.A. for possible charges against responsible parties, if there are any.” 

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 This is Erin Fielden and Jennifer Lane, we're friends of Amelia . We wanted to start this GoFundMe immediately after hearing about today's tragic accident involving the twins. We can't imagine Amelia and Ricky's pain, but let's help ease the financial burden. We are asking for any donations to help with Funeral expenses, medicals bills, time off work. Whatever they need! 
 
 We need all the prayers to help Elijah keep fighting! I will only post the News report, I read as of right now, Knoxville — An almost 2-year-old girl drowned in a swimming pool Friday morning in West Knox County. Her twin brother is on life support at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. The twins were in the care of a babysitter at a home on Fox Lonas Road. She told investigators she began looking for the children when another child arrived at 10 a.m. She found them in the deep end of the swimming pool. They were rushed by ambulance to the hospital. The Knox County Sheriff's Office and DCS are investigating the incident. 
 
 Amelia, Ricky, Marquette, Mckale, Elijah and Elyssa God is watching over you, I know because I asked him too ❤ 

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 CLOSE The twin brother of a nearly 2-year-old girl who drowned after both children were found in a swimming pool at a West Knox County home has died, according to East Tennessee Children's Hospital. Angela Gosnell, Knoxville News Sentinel 
 
 Elijah, left, and Elyssa (Photo: Submitted / Jennifer Lane Stewart) 
 
 The twin brother of a nearly 2-year-old girl who drowned after both children were found in a swimming pool at a West Knox County home has died, according to East Tennessee Children's Hospital. 
 
 The boy had been in critical condition at the hospital since Friday, when he and his sister were staying with a babysitter at 8836 Fox Lonas Road, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office. 
 
 The babysitter said that after another child arrived at the home about 10 a.m., she began looking around for the twins and found them in the deep end of the pool, according to KCSO. 
 
 An ambulance rushed the twins to the children's hospital, where the girl died and her brother was put on life support. He died on Sunday, according to hospital spokesman Seth Linkous. 
 
 'Eli was definitely her follower' 
 
 Two friends of the family, Erin Fielden and Jennifer Stewart, started a GoFundMe campaign late Friday to raise money for funeral expenses and medical bills. By Sunday afternoon, the fundraiser had drawn more than $10,000 in donations. 
 
 "Everything leads to financial expenses, and we just hope we can ease that burden and rally together as a community to maybe take that part out of it," said Stewart, who described herself as a close friend of the twins' mother. 
 
 Buy Photo The scene at a house on Fox Lonas Rd. where two young children fell into a pool on Friday, July 20, 2018. (Photo: Brittany Crocker/News Sentinel) 
 
 Stewart said the mother gave her permission to speak to the media and to identify the twins by their first names — Elyssa and Elijah. 
 
 "Elyssa was definitely the boss, and Eli was definitely her follower," Stewart said, adding that the family also has two older children. 
 
 The family asks for prayers and appreciates the outpouring of love and support from the community, Stewart said. 
 
 Om Baby 
 
 Records show that as of May 2017, the home on Fox Lonas Road was operating as a day care center called Om Baby, registered to Jen Salley of Knoxville. Salley does not own the home, according to property records. 
 
 A Care.com listing for Om Baby said Salley began doing day care in 2010 and is certified in CPR, first aid and swim instruction. The listing advertised summer swimming classes for $150; reviews had been posted as recent as June 3. 
 
 The listing has since been taken down. 
 
 Buy Photo A law enforcement officer leaves the West Knoxville house where two children were pulled from a pool on Friday, July 20, 2018. (Photo: Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel) 
 
 According to Tennessee Department of Human Services spokesman Sky Arnold, Om Baby was not a licensed child care facility, and Salley did not have a child care license. That means Salley was not allowed to care for more than four unrelated children for more than three hours at a time. 
 
 Om Baby's Care.com profile advertised space for up to six children — three infants and three toddlers. 
 
 Buy Photo The house where a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old were pulled from a pool, in West Knoxville Friday morning, July 20, 2018. The children were taken by ambulance to Children's Hospital. (Photo: Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel, ) 
 
 Arnold said at the time of the drowning, Salley was in compliance with the rules in that she did not have more than four children at the home. 
 
 The Knox County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Children's Services are investigating. The sheriff's office has not yet confirmed the identities of the twins or said whether criminal charges may be filed in the case. More details will be released as the investigation continues. 
 
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 CLOSE The twin brother of a nearly 2-year-old girl who drowned after both children were found in a swimming pool at a West Knox County home has died, according to East Tennessee Children's Hospital. Angela Gosnell, Knoxville News Sentinel 
 
 Buy Photo The scene at a house on Fox Lonas Rd. where two young children fell into a pool on Friday, July 20, 2018. (Photo: Brittany Crocker/News Sentinel)Buy Photo 
 
 A complaint filed by the Tennessee Department of Human Services lists a string of poor evaluations at a West Knoxville day care where two toddlers died after being found in the deep end of a pool Friday. 
 
 Twin brother and sister Elijah and Elyssa Orejuela were found in the backyard pool Friday morning. The toddlers, who would have turned 2 in August, were rushed to East Tennessee Children's Hospital. 
 
 Elyssa died later the same day. Elijah was pronounced dead Sunday, according to hospital spokesman Seth Linkous. 
 
 The May 2018 complaint alleged Jennifer Salley, who operated Om Baby day care out of a West Knoxville house, was keeping more children than allowed without a license, and triggered a series of evaluations by the Department of Human Services. 
 
 Records of DHS evaluations in the complaint mention misleading advertisements, allegations of payment in pain medication, the smell of feces and poor supervision. 
 
 An investigation by the Knox County Sheriff's Office and the state Department of Children's Services is ongoing. KCSO has yet to say whether criminal charges may be filed. 
 
 DHS attempts at contact 
 
 According to the injunctive complaint, a DHS evaluator, Ansley Taylor, visited the house at 8836 Fox Lonas Road unannounced because the agency received a complaint Salley had eight unrelated children in her home. 
 
 State law says unlicensed home day cares cannot provide care for more than four unrelated children for more than three hours per day. 
 
 Taylor reportedly heard dogs barking in the background, but no one answered the door so she left licensing contact information and came back a week later, again with no response. 
 
 Salley posted a Facebook photo on her Om Baby page March 9 that pictured 11 children at the home, a couple of weeks before DHS received another complaint that Salley was operating an unlicensed day care that advertised space for six kids. 
 
 Two more DHS evaluators, Margo Mathis and Laura Fain, dropped by the next morning and rang the doorbell. 
 
 According to the complaint, the evaluators heard children talking and dogs barking before someone turned up Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," and they all began singing. 
 
 Again, no one answered the door. The evaluators left information at the door again, and Salley sent out letters to parents written by a "Veronica M.," or Salley's apparent assistant, Veronica Munoz. 
 
 The letters informed parents Salley needed to disenroll seven children to be in compliance with the state. 
 
 False advertising, payment in pain meds? 
 
 Mathis and Fain returned to the house the next week and sat outside in their vehicle. After four kids were dropped off, Salley invited the evaluators inside. 
 
 The evaluators asked Salley to explain why her Care.com advertisement said the day care was state licensed when it was not. 
 
 The complaint said Salley told the evaluators she had applied for a business license and gone to an orientation but decided not to pursue licensure because of fire codes. Then she told the evaluators she still had 17 unrelated children enrolled in her home day care service, but only watched four at a time. 
 
 Salley's Care.com advertisement still said the service was state licensed and had space for six kids until Monday morning when her profile was deleted. 
 
 DHS received a third complaint in early May that Salley was again caring for at least 10 children during the day and sometimes overnight. The complainant, who was not identified, also alleged Salley was taking payment in pain medication. 
 
 Too many children 
 
 Another DHS evaluator, Linda Wallace, visited Salley a few days later on May 9, and was greeted by Munoz, who said she was watching kids while Salley was at a doctor's appointment. 
 
 Munoz admitted to caring for eight unrelated children in the house. Wallace went inside to count and found an infant and a toddler alone and unsupervised in separate, darkened rooms, one of which "smelled strongly like feces," the complaint said. 
 
 Munoz reportedly told Wallace she would change the toddler's diaper and closed the door. 
 
 Wallace alleged Munoz then called the infant by the wrong name before realizing it was a different child. Wallace counted six older children, ages 3 and 4, in another larger room with a baby gate and a schedule posted on the wall. 
 
 Another parent arrived that morning with their child and the evaluator instructed Munoz to turn them away. 
 
 Then, according to the complaint, a man and a woman showed up at the house and left with four kids after Wallace explained she had to stay until there were fewer than four kids at the residence. 
 
 Munoz later admitted the two adults were not the parents of all four children, but that the other parents wouldn't care because they were all friends and watch each other's kids. 
 
 Court order 
 
 The Department served Salley with a temporary restraining order on May 17, on the grounds she appeared to be "operating a child care agency without a license to operate." 
 
 The restraining order forbade Salley from operating the child care without a DHS license. 
 
 Four days later, the Knox County Chancery Court entered an injunction that further forbade Salley from "establishing, conducting, managing or operating any place, home or facility of any kind," that would legally qualify as a child care agency without having an active license. 
 
 DHS spokesman Sky Arnold said he had no reason to believe Salley was out of compliance with the injunction at the time the twins were found in the pool. 
 
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 A mother in Tennessee is heartbroken after her twins were found unresponsive in the deep end of a babysitter’s swimming pool, saying she’s “not sure how to live with this pain.” 
 
 Amelia Wieand, the mother of twins Elijah and Elyssa Orejuela, told the Knoxville News Sentinel that her son donated his organs on Tuesday to help other children after passing away on Sunday. 
 
 “After much heartbreak, Elijah has gone to be with his sister Elyssa,” Weiand told the newspaper. “They were formed together in my womb and came into this world together. Both kids were extremely strong. She was his other half. They were soul mates and never apart. Even in death they were together.” 
 
 Weiand said her son donated his organs to save the lives of strangers he’ll never know. 
 
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 “I’ll never understand this, and I’m not sure how to live with this pain,” she continued. “But to prevent another family from suffering this immeasurable pain, today Elijah became a superhero.” 
 
 The twins — who were just one month away from turning 2 — were found early Friday in the deep end of a babysitter’s pool at a home operating as a day care center on Fox Lonas Road in West Knox County, sheriff officials said. 
 
 The children were rushed to a nearby hospital, where Elyssa was pronounced dead Friday. Elijah was put on life support and was pronounced dead on Sunday, a hospital spokesman told the newspaper. 
 
 “I know right now they are in heaven being mischievous and giggling,” Wieand said, adding that her son never would’ve been complete living without his twin sister. 
 
 In a separate Facebook post, Wieand, a registered nurse, thanked the public for supporting her during the early stages of her grieving process. 
 
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– A Tennessee toddler drowned in a day care's swimming pool Friday, and now her twin brother has also succumbed to his injuries, per the Knoxville News Sentinel. The little boy, identified by People as Elijah Orejuela, died Sunday after two days on life support; his sister, Elyssa Orejuela, died the same day a worker at Om Baby found them both in the deep end of the pool at the day care facility, which was run out of a home in West Knoxville. "It is with much heartbreak that I tell you that Elijah has gone to be with his sister," the twins' mother, identified by Fox News as registered nurse Amelia Wieand, wrote on Facebook Tuesday. "They were formed in my womb and grew together. She was his other half. They were soulmates." Per the Sentinel, Om Baby is registered to a Jen Salley, though she's said not to own the home where the day care was located. A Care.com listing that's since been deleted showed that Salley, who also offered swimming lessons and was reportedly certified in CPR and first aid, had been offering child care since 2010. People reports Om Baby had had complaints lodged against it in the past—including that there were too many kids in the home, per Tennessee Department of Human Services records cited by the Sentinel—and two months ago it was told to cease operations due to not being licensed. It's not yet clear whether criminal charges will be filed in the twins' deaths. A GoFundMe set up for the family has so far raised more than $35,000 for medical bills and funeral expenses, and Wieand noted on Facebook that Elijah's organs had been donated "to prevent another family from suffering this immeasurable pain."