NY - Julissia Batties, 7, beaten to death by teen stepbrother for taking snacks, Bronx, 10 Aug 2021

[imstilla.grandma]

The grandmother of 7-year-old Julissia Batties — whose battered body was discovered in a Bronx apartment last Tuesday — said the medical examiner has denied her attempts to claim the body and plan a funeral for the little girl.

Julissia Batties (Family handout)

The grandmother’s call came as PIX11 learned the little girl had been “aided” five times in the past by emergency responders. It’s not clear what kind of treatment she had received in the months and years before her death, but a law enforcement source told us she had “five, prior ‘aided’ cases.”

Batties had been living with her mother in the Bronx since March 2020, when the pandemic started, even though the mom had numerous complaints filed against her with the Administration for Children’s Services.

The grandmother had raised the child in Brooklyn for the first, six years of her life, picking her up at the hospital when Batties was five days old.

According to a law enforcement source, Batties was discovered “lying face up on a bedroom floor, unconscious and unresponsive” at New York City Housing Authoritys’s Mitchel Houses on Alexander Avenue in the Bronx.

The source read from a synopsis of the incident:

“The 35-year-old mother claimed at 5 a.m., the child fell and hit her head on a desk.”

“At 8 a.m., she (the girl) began to vomit and defecate on herself, before she passed out,” according to the mother’s statement in the report.

At 8:58 a.m., a call was made to 911 and an ambulance responded.

The source said the death was ruled “suspicious,” because of bruising and trauma found on the girl’s “face, arms and torso.”

It’s been reported the girl’s 17-year-old half brother admitted punching the 7-year-old girl in the face eight times the morning of her death, because he was annoyed she kept going to the kitchen for snacks.
Bronx girl, 7, who died from body trauma had 5 prior ‘aided’ cases for injuries: source | PIX11

 

[Shamrock1]

A 7-Year-Old Dies in the Bronx, and Records Show a History of Abuse

 

[modesty blaise]

Another child falls through the cracks or wide open spaces at this point.

 

[MissUnderstood]

Despicable people!!!! They left this little one for hours before calling an ambulance. Lock up this mother and step brother and throw away the key. Society don’t need them. Moo

 

[Shamrock1]

My heart breaks for the poor grandmother too.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Autopsy results showing Julissia Batties died of “blunt force abdominal trauma” have been available since at least Aug. 16, the city medical examiner’s office told The Post.

“I want justice for my granddaughter and I don’t understand why no one is in custody now. If the Medical Examiner called it a homicide, why is no one arrested yet?” said Julissia’s grandmother, Yolanda Davis, who had custody of the child for most of the girl’s short life. “You all said you were waiting for the Medical Examiner and now you got the results from the Medical Examiner and nobody has done nothing yet.”

There was a known history of violence in the child’s home, and an alleged admission from her 17-year-old half-brother that he punched Julissia eight times in the face the day she died — though it was later determined those blows were not what ultimately killed her, sources have said.

“The detective told me he is waiting for the DA,” said Davis, who believes Jones and the half-brother are responsible for Julissia’s death. “So when are they going to get the people who did this in custody because those are the only two people who should be in custody — the mother and the brother.”

Julissia was put in Jones’ permanent custody just months before her death.
No arrests yet in killing of 7-year-old Julissia Batties

 

[Shamrock1]

Mother says she fell & hit her head on a desk at 5am and passed out around 8am with 911 call at 8:58am. Stepbrother said he punched her face 8 times that morning, no time specified but I’m guessing between 5-8am.

Old & new abdominal injuries.

Bronx girl, 7, who died from body trauma had 5 prior ‘aided’ cases for injuries: source | PIX11

 

[Filly]

A 17 year old admits to punching this tiny little girl in the face eight times?

Julissa is so adorable with her little Mickey ears on.

Her poor, poor grandmom who raised her up has no say? About anything?

 

[Marg from Oz]

What was that mother thinking? Her 17 year old allowed to abuse a tiny little girl. Obviously this was not the first time. Being 17 we won't get to see a picture of him. But how big was this bully? Sounds like she was hungry, the poor little thing. And why was he ready to pounce on her at 5.00am? That home must have been a living hell for that little girl. Both should be charged. MOO

 

[Julindy]

Words fail me,I hope the little girl gets justice and them two monsters jailed ASAP, my deepest sympathies to the Grandmother at this traumatic time for her ❤

 

[Shamrock1]

At Birth, She Already Had a Case File. At 7 Years Old, She Was Dead.

 

[Marg from Oz]

^^^Paywall

 

[Shamrock1]

^^^Paywall

Sorry about that! I'll try to hit the main points that are new.

1. A janitor at a bodega saw her a few days before she died. Black eye on her masked face. He was concerned that she was alone/crossing busy streets and considered taking her to police but did not and now blames himself. She bought a cheeseburger and bagel with cream cheese & jelly.

2. No charges yet. COD - blunt trauma to abdomen. 17yr old brother said he hit her repeatedly because she ate his snacks (prior articles report that he admitted to hitting/punching her face/head).

3. On August 10th, neighbors saw J naked and limp in her brother's arms; mother said J urinated on herself.

4. J moved in to mother's apartment April 2020. Neighbors had concerns about J being alone and about mother's "constant" yelling/cursing. One neighbor called child services July 8th and July 12th. On August 6th, a neighbor's girlfriend saw J with a black eye; neighbor reports that J stated her mother struck her and this neighbor also contacted child services.

5. J lived with paternal grandmother from 6 days old. J was briefly removed at age 3 because she allowed unsupervised visits between J and her father; court said removal was in error and returned J to paternal grandmother. Seems like grandmother provided her with a good home.

6. Grandmother sought visitation rights. On July 31st, texts from J's phone to grandmother stated that J's mother would soon be taking J to living permanently in Texas.

7. J began mental health treatment at age 5. Therapists noted she would become visibly anxious/agitated when visits with her mother were mentioned.

8. Mother had 5 older children removed for physical abuse. Lots of instances of violent behavior/anger issues, including kicking on social workers' doors. The childhood friend and neighbors all describe mother as having a volatile temper/anger issues. She completed parenting/anger management classes and therapy to regain custody of J.

9. Childhood friend states mother did not have a stable childhood herself; she was raised by her grandmother and lived with an older man as a teen.

10. Neighbors described J as a shy, quiet kid who liked unicorns and Minnie Mouse.

 

[Marg from Oz]

This has gone silent. Has there been anything reported?

 

[tlcya]

@Marg from Oz YOUR SPIDEY SENSE MUST HAVE BEEN TINGLING​

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Heart-breaking audio taken before 7-year-old Julissia Batties’ NYC death​

“They make him bleed,” she said.

“What do they do?” Davis asked. “Something bad,” the girl replied.

When Julissia told her grandma to “call the police,” Davis was surprised.

“What am I calling the police for?” she asked. “Because I don’t want to go with mommy,” Julissia cried.
[SNIP]
Batties is incredulous that no one has been arrested after nine months. “All I hear is that they’re working on it. It’s the same thing I’ve been hearing since the beginning,” he said.



BE AWARE THE AUDIO IS AT THE LINK. IT WAS HEARTBREAKING TO HEAR KNOWING HOW THIS ENDS. POOR LITTLE DOLL.

 

[Marg from Oz]

That is so heartbreaking. That poor little girl. It sure is taking a long time to make an arrest.
Blunt force trauma to the abdomen? They can't have too many persons of interest.

MOO

 

[WildOrchid]

Mom, teen brother ‘finally’ busted a year after 7-year-old Julissia Batties beaten to death

The mother and brother of Julissia Batties — who died last summer after she was found badly battered in her Bronx home — have been arrested in connection to her murder.

nypost.com

 

[tlcya]

Navasia Jones, 35, and Paul Fine, Jr., 18, were detained on Wednesday morning and charged with murder and manslaughter for killing Julissia, who was returned to her mother despite pleas from the helpless little girl.

“I didn’t kill my daughter, ,” Jones snapped at a reporter outside the 40th Precinct station house in Mott Haven.

Fine was also charged with sexual abuse for allegedly assaulting his little sister. A police source told The Post the girl’s autopsy revealed that she had been sodomized.
[snip]
Prosecutors revealed horrific details during the arraignments.

The tiny victim was “sexually assaulted as she was dying,” and had “600 milliliters of blood in her abdomen.” The beatings the girl was subjected to had “enough force for internal organs to tear and bleed,” prosecutors said.
[snip]
“Defendant Paul Fine Jr. confessed to ACS that he had assaulted Julissia all over her body in the two-day period for which he is charged,” Assistant District Attorney Camila Sosa said in court.

“He also admitted to both ACS and the police that he punched her multiple times in the face on the day that she was pronounced dead,” Sosa said, “and that he had done so because she had thrown up or stolen snacks.”

She said Fine was accused of “continuing to beat and sexually abuse Julissia as she lay dying.”
Mom, teen brother ‘finally’ busted a year after 7-year-old Julissia Batties beaten to death

photos of both perps at the linked article. the look on Navasia Jones face makes me want to do violence. So glad they are finally charged. I'm so sorry little Julissia had to endure both these horrible [unusual person]s. May they both get everything they deserve from prison and then rot in hell after.

 

[tlcya]

Bronx prosecutors want little Julissia Batties’ half-brother to be tried as an adult for the 7-year-old’s murder – as vivid evidence during an occupation hearing on Friday horrified the girl’s grieving father and grandmother.

Paul Fine Jr., now 18, is charged with the caning death of 7-year-old Julissia last year – but his lawyer is trying to take the case to family court because Fine was 17 at the time of the alleged crime.

“Count me in [district attorney]because what they say is the truth,” grandmother Yolanda Davis told reporters outside the courthouse, which she exited after viewing vivid photos that included images of Julissia with a black eye.
[snip]
“ACS has failed us and we want justice and I mean that seriously,” said Davis, who raised the girl for most of her short life and fought Julissia’s mother for custody. “I tried too hard to tell them what was going on and they didn’t listen. It’s a hurtful situation. It is very sad that the system failed so much.”

Julissia was killed in August 2021, less than two months after she was returned to the unattended care of her mother, Navasia Jones, who is also accused of murder.
New York prosecutors want the half-brother in Julissia Battie's murder to stand trial as an adult - USTimeToday

“When you say you punched her in her face, you didn’t just punch her in her face, you beat her up, you and your mother, and then your mother left, and went to the store, like she didn’t do nothing, and then you covered it, that’s what’s happening here,” the grandmother added.

“It’s terrible, it’s really sad. My granddaughter was a very good kid,” Davis said. “You didn’t have to do anything to her. She was starving her and everything. The case worker did not even listen.
NYC prosecutors want half-brother in 7-year-old Julissia Batties murder case tried as adult

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Yolanda Davis will never forget when detectives knocked on her door to inform her that her 7-year-old granddaughter, Julissia Batties, had been found dead in the Bronx apartment where she’d been living with her mother and siblings.

“They beat her and beat her until they killed my granddaughter,” Davis said. “I’m thinking the detectives and them are coming to tell me they have to bring her back to me. Instead, they came to tell me my granddaughter expired. That didn’t make no sense to me because she was loved here."

Davis had been fighting for the better part of a year to get Julissia back after a caseworker at the Administration for Children's Services had decided that Julissia should live with her mother, Navasia Jones, who along with Julissia’s half-brother is now charged with her murder.

What You Need To Know​

• ACS decided that Julissia Batties should live with her mother, over the objections of Julissia, her grandmother and others. A little more than a year later, the 7-year-old was beaten to death, and her mother and half-brother are charged with murder
• Her grandmother, Yolanda Davis, had been fighting for years to protect Julissia. Davis blames ACS for sending Julissia to live with her mother despite Julissia's fear of Jones
• Nearly two years after Julissia's death, ACS will still not comment on any specifics about the case or where it may have failed. But ACS Commissioner Jess Dannhauser says as a result of cases like Julissia's, the city has expanded coaching during active cases
• Attorney Derek Sells is suing the city on behalf of 4-year-old Jace Eubanks, another child "known" to ACS, who was killed a month after Julissia. Sells says too often, the most vulnerable children get the least protection. Of ACS, Sells says, “their duty is to protect children"

The case of 7-year-old Julissia Batties

Julissia Batties had a case with ACS for her entire life.

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