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NYPD failed to translate mom’s warning ahead of triple slay

A Queens woman who was butchered last month with her two young daughters had filed a police report in May saying she feared her husband would murder them, but her warning went unheeded — because it was in Spanish and never translated.

Deisy Garcia, an immigrant from Guatemala, filled out the state-mandated domestic-incident report in her native language after calling officers to her Jamaica apartment May 30 to say her husband, Miguel Mejia-Ramos, had assaulted her, police sources told The Post.

In the report, whose instructions are printed in English and Spanish, Garcia, 21, wrote that she was afraid Mejia-Ramos, 29, was going to kill her as well as their kids because she loved them so much, sources said.

Garcia called 911 on Mejia-Ramos again Nov. 28 and filed another report, although she didn’t repeat her worries about being killed.

Neither report was translated into English by either the patrol officers or the Domestic Violence Unit at the 103rd Precinct, where Garcia lived, until after Mejia-Ramos allegedly flew into his jealous rage and fatally stabbed her and their daughters — Daniela, 2, and Yoselin, 1 — on Jan. 18, sources said.

In response, police brass reminded all cops that NYPD policy mandates that reports made in foreign languages must be translated into English, sources said.

The NYPD is also looking into using computer software to automatically translate the reports, sources said.

Garcia’s mom, Luzmina Alvarado, lashed out at the NYPD when informed by The Post of the blunder.

“I’m in so much pain,” she said, adding. “I’m not sure how to go on.”

“I know she contacted them and told them he kicked her and abused her, but the police told her they needed to see proof of the abuse. They told her there was no evidence and left it at that,” Alvarado said.

“I told the cops, ‘Now that my daughter is dead, you’re hunting for this man like dogs, but if you did more earlier — if you had listened to my daughter — she might be alive today.’ ”

Garcia’s brother José Garcia, 19, added, “When someone comes to them with a problem but only speaks Spanish, find someone who speaks Spanish.

“They’re supposed to help us no matter who we are. My sister and her kids might still be alive if they had done their jobs.”

Authorities have said that Mejia-Ramos, who had spent the evening drinking beer at friend’s home, grabbed a knife from a butcher block and attacked his sleeping wife after checking her cellphone and spotting a Facebook photo of her and another man.

Mejia-Ramos allegedly told cops he hacked their daughters to death because he didn’t have car seats to take them on the run with him after killing of their mother.

Mejia-Ramos, an illegal immigrant, was nabbed two days later at a roadblock in Texas while en route to his native Mexico.

An NYPD representative said, “The allegations are under internal review.”

Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli