Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Patricia Saintizaire, 36, is facing multiple charges in the 'horrible' beating death of her 4-year-old son, whom she adopted from Haiti in 2023.
A Florida mother is behind bars facing multiple charges in the death of her 4-year-old son, whom she adopted from Haiti in April 2023, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Patricia Saintizaire, 36, is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and tampering with a witness in the death of Bryan Boyer, Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday. 'He's dead because she beat him to death,' Judd said.
The sheriff's office said it was notified by staff at Orlando Health Hospital on Thursday, May 2, of a 4-year-old boy who died 'under what appeared to be suspicious circumstances' after a medical exam showed an abdominal bleed that couldn't be fixed by emergency surgery. The boy's body was taken to the District 9 Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy, which was conducted the following day.
Polk County homicide detectives learned the boy was initially taken to Heart of Florida hospital in Davenport, where the family lived, but was flown to Orlando Health because of his injuries. Saintizaire took him to the hospital at the request of her teenage son, who was performing CPR on the child at home beforehand, according to the PCSO.
The teenager said he went to another room in the house for about two hours and did not see or hear what happened to his little brother, but noted that he was 'unable to walk on his own and struggled to sit up on his own' when Saintizaire told him to take food to the child. She allegedly told the teenager that the boy was 'faking it' and to just feed him shortly before he became unresponsive, which is when he began performing CPR and insisted they needed to go to the hospital.
Saintizaire's husband, who was 'clearly at work,' according to Judd, told detectives he does not handle the discipline of the children. Saintizaire 'repeatedly denied' ever using physical discipline as punishment for either child, the sheriff's office said. When reviewing her phone, detectives found two videos from home surveillance cameras showing Saintizaire allegedly hitting the 4-year-old with an unknown object while he was lying face down on the floor, Judd said.
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