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Ahziyas 24-year-old stepmother had been under the scrutiny of child protection investigators herself since April 2012, when her own son had been found sleeping on a mattress on the dirty floor of a one-room drug house teeming with cockroaches. As many as 15 other adults were there, too, police said, abusing narcotics. Five months later, the 2-year-old was found wandering alone several blocks from his home. It took his mother almost three hours to report him missing.
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The collection of caregivers in the months before Ahziyas death might have raised some eyebrows. Nelson Osceola had been the subject of two reports of physical abuse, and had a lengthy criminal history; the boys stepmom had undergone two neglect investigations. Also in the home at the time Ahziya died was Analiz Osceolas mother, Anubis Rodezno, who had twice been accused of child abuse. Analizs two brothers described in a court pleading as having extensive drug histories also had moved in, and one had amassed a lengthy rap sheet, with arrests for battery, aggravated assault and weapons possession.
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It is alarming to think that someone would allow this child to stay in that household, Hollywood Police Chief Frank Fernandez told the Miami Herald. We know today that should have never happened. That child should have been removed.
Fernandez viewed autopsy photos of Ahziyas pockmarked body. Hed been crammed inside an eight-inch-wide cardboard box. The makeshift coffin once had held a toddlers walker, he said. The condition in which we found this little boy was absolutely horrific, Fernandez said. My first thought was anger, that any child would be put through that torture, discarded like a piece of trash.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article19262403.html