Yuhwei Chou, the Montgomery woman accused of killing her two young children, appeared in court today.

Chou, 36, appeared before Somerset County Judge Peter Tober. Tober called the case “particularly horrific” and ruled Chou is to remain in jail until her trial. She is held without bail.

Chou spoke minimally, mostly answering with yes or no statements.

She is charged with two counts of murder of her two young children, 7-year-old Samantha and 11-month-old Paul. According to investigators, Chou said she’d been planning their murder for about a week. She’s accused of zip-tying her children’s hands, duct taping their faces, suffocating them, and then zip-tying her own hands to the steering wheel of her car before driving into a ditch in Hillsborough.

Tober did say Chou does not have a criminal history. He mentioned a domestic violence charge from this summer, but that was dismissed.