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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Child death: Autopsy expected to confirm how 6-year-old boy died in St. Lucie County home
An autopsy being performed Saturday is expected to determine how a 6-year-old boy died, according to St. Lucie County sheriff's officials. His mother, 41-year-old Rhonda Paulynice, has been charged with second-degree murder, failure to report a death and willfully touching or moving the body, according to an arrest report. She remained in the St. Lucie County Jail without bail after her first appearance in court Saturday morning, said sheriff's Lt. Andrew Bolonka. The Medical Examiner's Office was performing an autopsy on the boy, Ra'Myl Pierre, on Saturday to determine his cause and manner of death, Bolonka said. Deputies went to their home in the 2500 block of Bedford Drive, near North 25th Street and Juanita Avenue in Fort Pierce, at about 10:30 a.m. May 30 to perform a welfare check, according to officials. The check was requested by a school resource officer after the boy hadn't been to school at Samuel Gaines Academy since May 14. They arrived and found a woman later confirmed to be Paulynice walking from the front of the home toward the sidewalk area near the road, according to the report. Deputies asked where the boy was, and she told them he was inside the house. Paulynice got her house keys from inside her hair covering and opened the door, according to the report. Deputies noted she was behaving 'oddly,' wouldn't take off her sunglasses and appeared indifferent to their presence. She pointed them toward a room when asked where the boy was, according to the report. Deputies found the boy on the bed, deceased and wrapped in fabric with only his face exposed. Because of how he was wrapped, deputies couldn't see whether there were any signs of trauma. Detectives arrived about 12:30 p.m. and determined the boy could have been dead for several days based on noticeable decomposition. Paulynice didn't make any statements while they executed a search warrant at the home. Before the boy's body was taken away, Paulynice was allowed to say 'goodbye,' according to the report. Although she appeared distraught, detectives noted, it didn't appear sincere. They then interviewed her at the sheriff's office, Sheriff Richard Del Toro said during a news conference later that night. Detectives learned Paulynice last spoke to the boy May 18, and that's when they believe the homicide occurred. 'What we did learn in speaking with the mother is she believes she was being told by God to basically exorcise demons out of the child's body,' Del Toro said. 'When the child had stopped moving and basically passed away at that point, she felt the child had been released of those demons and was waiting for him to basically come back.' Del Toro said Paulynice 'had a lot of highs and lows during the investigation, from laughing at different times at the scene to crying.' Detectives have an idea of how she killed her son based on her confession, Del Toro said. However, they're waiting for autopsy results to corroborate. Sheriff's officials went to the same house May 17, the day before they believe the boy died, for a medical issue Paulynice was having, Del Toro said. Officials had been to the home previously. 'There have been some domestic issues in the past, all the way back to January, involving the mother and a sister who once lived at the home,' Del Toro said, 'but nothing involving the child that would lead us to where we're at today.' Breaking news reporter Will Greenlee contributed to this report. This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Autopsy expected to show how 6-year-old boy died in Fort Pierce home
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Influencer makes desperate bid to shield public from details of three-year-old son's drowning
Social media influencer Emilie Kiser, 26, has filed a lawsuit against multiple agencies in Arizona to block the details of her three-year-old son's death from the public. Kiser's son died on May 18 six days after he was found unresponsive in a backyard pool in Arizona, according to Chandler Police Department. Kiser is a popular mommy blogger with four million followers on TikTok and frequently shares her life as a mother on the platform. The influencer filed a lawsuit using her maiden name, Henrichsen, on Tuesday against the City of Chandler, Chandler Police Department, Maricopa County, the county's medical examiner's office, and other agencies to permanently block public access to records related to her son, Trigg's, death. The lawsuit said that Kiser was 'going through a parent's worst nightmare right now' and the family 'desperately wanted to grieve in private.' 'Trigg's death has become a media frenzy. Appallingly, 100+ public record requests have been filed with both the City of Chandler and the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office,' the lawsuit continued. 'Emilie is trying her best to be there for her surviving son, two-month-old Theodore. But every day is a battle,' the suit said. Kiser's attorneys argued that the records presumably contain 'graphic, distressing, and intimate details' of the toddler's death. They continued that public access to the records 'has no bearing on government accountability.' 'To allow disclosure in these circumstances would be to turn Arizona's Public Records Law into a weapon of emotional harm, rather than a tool of government transparency,' the lawsuit added. The suit said that Kiser or her representation haven't reviewed the police report, security camera footage, scene photos, 911 recording, or autopsy photos. Kiser's lawyers added that the records weren't available to them, and the influencer doesn't intend to ever view the documents. In response to the lawsuit, Jason Berry, the director of communications for Maricopa County, which was named as a defendant, told NBC News, 'When Maricopa County learned the family was pursuing a court order to prevent the release of these records, the Office of the Medical Examiner worked with the family to place a seal on the record.' Kiser's son, Trigg, died on May 18 after a drowning incident at the family's home on May 12. A neighbor told at the time that the influencer's house was swarmed with five police cars after the incident. Emergency responders arrived and performed life-saving efforts until Trigg was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital for specialized care. Kiser hasn't posted since the tragedy, but her followers flooded her accounts with messages of support and condolences before she turned off her comment sections. The Arizona influencer and her husband, Brady, became parents to Trigg in July 2021. The couple revealed they were having another child in September 2024, posting a photo of Kiser's sonogram with the caption, 'WE GOTTA BABY GROWING.' 'We can not wait to add another angel to our family. Whatever you are, we love you so much already.' In March, the family announced the arrival of their second son, Teddy, writing on Instagram, 'We love you so much and our hearts feel like they are going to burst.'
News.com.au
a day ago
- General
- News.com.au
Queensland mum Ingrid Flanigan, accused of killing 3yo daughter, found unresponsive in jail cell
A Queensland mother accused of killing her three-year old daughter has been found unresponsive in her jail cell. Lauren Ingrid Flanigan, 32, was charged with the murder of the child after police made the grim discovery at a Regency Rd home in Moore Park Beach – in the Bundaberg region of Queensland – at 4.45pm on Monday. Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) confirmed officers responded to a medical emergency involving a prisoner at Brisbane Womens Correctional Centre on Friday night. A QCS spokesman said officers responded before paramedics arrived on site and transported the woman to hospital. 'Support is being offered to the responding officers and their colleagues,' a spokesman said. Queensland Police detectives from the Corrective Services Investigation Unit are investigating. 'There is no further information available at this time,' a police spokesman said. Ms Flanigan was remanded in custody and due to face court in July over the young girl's death. Police seized a bladed knife from the scene. Superintendent Brad Inskip said multiple triple-0 calls had been made in regards to the alleged incident. Police and paramedics located the child's body and the mother in the front yard of the address. 'There were multiple wounds to the child's body,' Superintendent Inskip said at the time. 'It was a horrific scene, a terrible incident for everybody – including the witnesses, including the emergency services, police and ambulance officers who attended and the investigators doing the ongoing investigation.'
BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Mark Gordon previously convicted of rape in US, Old Bailey retrial told
Mark Gordon was convicted of a series of sexual offences, including rape, which took place in Florida in 1989 when he was aged 14, a jury heard on Thursday. The details of his previous convictions were read to the jury at a retrial of separate charges at the Old Bailey in and his partner Constance Marten are standing trial on charges of the manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn baby Victoria and of causing or allowing the death of a decomposing body was found in a shopping bag in a shed in a Brighton allotment in March 2023. The jury were told of the details of Gordon's prior offences in the United States when he was 14 years 29 April 1989, he broke into the house of a next door neighbour wearing a nylon stocking over his face, armed with a knife and hedge clippers, the court heard. He demanded that the woman inside the house undress and attempted to rape her, before orally raping her and committing other sexual assaults. Gordon then held her for four-and-a-half hours against her 21 May of the same year, he broke into another property carrying a flat-headed shovel and beat a male occupant about the head with the was sentenced in the US to 40 years in prison, of which he served 22 questions to Det Sgt Ian Valentine, who was giving evidence about the convictions, Mark Gordon, who is now representing himself, suggested that he had been "manipulated" in his police interviews in Florida, saying he had been a 14-year-old child without adult Sgt Valentine said: "I am not aware of the circumstances of the case. I am just aware of the outcome."The jury also heard that on three occasions Marten's family commissioned private investigators to conduct surveillance on the couple.A company called LSG was hired by Marten's mother, Virginie de Selliers, in 2016 to trace her daughter. LSG was successful and managed to take some photos of the was then hired by Marten's father, Napier Marten, to engineer a meeting in a café.Mrs de Selliers hired a second company, Blackstone Consultancy, in 2021 to investigate the couple's "pattern of life". The resulting investigation, dubbed "Operation Lynx", lasted two months, and more photographs were retrial will continue on Monday.
Free Malaysia Today
4 days ago
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
Child found dead in river behind JB mall
Johor Utara police chief MS Balveer Singh said the cause of death of the child is still under investigation. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA : A child was found dead in a river behind a shopping mall in Johor Bahru, Johor, on Sunday. Police said they were still identifying the victim. Johor Utara police chief MS Balveer Singh said the child, whose body was found floating in Sungai Skudai, is believed to be between five and seven years old. The victim was wearing an anklet on the left leg. The body was found by a senior citizen, who lodged a police report, Berita Harian reported. The cause of death is under investigation.
