GHANSON DEBROSSE - 3 yo - / Accused: Fafane Caze, mother - Miami, FL

Beaten with a broom handle, burned with a lighter and thrown into a table: 3-year-old boy 'tortured' to death by his own mother

Authorities say Fafane Caze would burn her 3-year-old son as punishment for wetting himself
Caze admitted to throwing 3-year-old Ghanson Debrosse into a table before he was brought to a hospital
Florida's Department of Children and Families has been called to Caze's home three times before her son's lifeless body was brought to a hospital

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 13:46 EST, 23 January 2014  | UPDATED: 14:01 EST, 23 January 2014

A 3-year-old Florida boy is dead after enduring horrific torture including having been burned, beaten and thrown across a room - and, according to authorities, the boy's 21-year-old mother is to blame.

Ghanson Debrosse was rushed to the Jackson North Medical Center about 3:30 am on Tuesday after his mother, Fafane Caze, called 9-1-1 to report that he wasn't breathing.

At the hospital, doctors determined that the 3-year-old boy had been dead for several hours.


Tragedy: Authorities say 3-year-old Ghanson Debrosse was tortured to death by his own mother


Fafane Caze is accused of torturing her 3-year-old son to death by beating, throwing and burning him with a cigarette lighter

Caze told investigators that the boy recently had been in Haiti visiting relatives. When she picked him up from the airport, she initially claimed, he showed signs of abuse.

After 12 hours of questioning, Caze admitted to beating and torturing the boy.

'She didn’t shed a tear,' Neal Cuevas, a major with the Miami Police Department, told the Miami Herald. 'She cared more about getting arrested than she did about her son.'

According to her arrest report, Caze 'used a lighter to burn the victim's genital area, in an attempt to stop the victim from urinating on the floor.'

On Wednesday, Detective Alonzo Rhymer testified that the boy also had burns on his face and fingers, as well as buckle-shaped scars all over his body. The imprint left by the buckle, he said, was a match for the buckle Caze wore as part of her uniform for her job as a security guard, which left multiple scars and open wounds.  

'Some were fresh, some were old,' Rhymer testified.


History: The Department of Children and Families had been called to Caze's house three times before her son's lifeless body was brought to a hospital

Detectives also say that Caze beat the boy with a broom handle when he defecated on himself. The broom handle was found broken in Caze's home.

Caze admitted to authorities that she threw the boy across a room and into a table. Afterwards, the toddler gasped for air and asked for water as he struggled to breathe.

It was only after the boy had stopped breathing completely that Caze called 9-1-1.

In his report, a North Miami detective wrote that in the past Caze had 'refused to seek medical attention to treat the victim's injuries, instead concocting a remedy of vegetable oil and laundry blue to treat the victim's wounds.'

On Tuesday, Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Esther Jacobo told reporters about three prior reports made to the agency about Caze's family, each of which was in 2010.

In one case, Caze was holding baby Ghanson as she had a physical altercation with his father, Donald Debrosse. According to the DCF report, Caze attempted to throw the then-infant at Debrosse.


Tortured: 3-year-old Ghanson would be burned and beaten as punishment for wetting himself

For now, Fafane has been charged with aggravated child abuse and torture. The judge in the case added the charge of attempted felony murder to the list, which kept her remanded without bail as a murder charge is pending depending on the results of a report from the medical examiner.

'If anybody deserves the additional charge she deserves it,' Cuevas said. 'She doesn’t deserve her freedom. She doesn’t deserve being around her children and she definitely doesn’t deserve to be around anyone else’s children.'

Caze has two other children - ages 1 and 4 - who were placed in foster care following their mother's arrest after no friends or members of Caze's family stepped forward to take them in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544829/Beaten-broom-handle-burned-lighter-thrown-table-3-year-old-boy-tortured-death-mother.html

Another little baby killed by the one that should love, protect, cherish him.  It's sad that a total stranger like me would have more feelings for him than his own mother.  Just breaks my heart.   William

People like this POS should be tortured and see how they like it.

Posted on Wednesday, 01.22.14

The short, tormented life of Ghanson Debross, 3-year-old torture victim

 
The horrors inflicted on 3-year-old Ghanson Debrosse came spilling out Wednesday, as his mother was charged with killing him.




Undated photo from social media showing Ghanson Debrosse, age 3, found dead Jan. 21, 2014, an apparent victim of brutal abuse by his mother, Fafane Caze, 21.


By Carli Teproff and David Ovalle

On his mother’s Facebook page, Ghanson Debrosse is the picture of a healthy, carefree boy, grinning broadly, his hands shoved jauntily into the pockets of his baggy jeans.

But behind the brilliant smile was a life of torment and pain.

According to police, Ghanson was burned by his mom with a lighter when he urinated on the floor. He was beaten with an aluminum broom handle when he soiled himself. He was hurled across a room and hit a table.

The abuse went on until he could endure no more. He died Tuesday.

The sordid details spilled out Wednesday through police reports and the testimony of a North Miami detective, a day after Ghanson’s mother, Fafane Caze, 21, was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and torture. The judge tacked on another charge of attempted felony murder, Wednesday, which kept her in jail with no bond. A murder charge is pending as the medical examiner’s office catalogs the toddler’s injuries.

“If anybody deserves the additional charge she deserves it,” said North Miami Maj. Neal Cuevas. “She doesn’t deserve her freedom. She doesn’t deserve being around her children and she definitely doesn’t deserve to be around anyone else’s children.”

On the same day their mother’s case went before a judge, Caze’s other children, a 1-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl, were placed in foster care after no friends or family of Caze stepped forward to house the children.

Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who spoke to the children in his chambers, ordered the Department of Children & Families to have them kept together while in foster care. He also wanted the state to find out who fathered Ghanson’s siblings. A hearing for the DCF to file a petition to terminate Caze’s parental rights was set for Feb. 21.

At 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, Caze called 911, saying her son was not breathing. After fire rescue arrived at the home in the 12500 block of Northeast 13th Avenue, the boy was rushed to Jackson North Medical Center, where doctors said he had been dead for at least three hours, according to police.

Caze initially told police that when she picked up her toddler two weeks ago from the airport after he spent some time in Haiti with relatives, he showed signs of abuse. After about 12 hours of questioning, Caze admitted to beating and torturing her child, Cuevas said.

“She didn’t shed a tear,” he said. “She cared more about getting arrested than she did about her son.”
According to Caze’s arrest report, she “used a lighter to burn the victim's genital area, in an attempt to stop the victim from urinating on the floor.”

A North Miami police detective testified Wednesday that the child also had burns on his face and fingers. He also had buckle-shaped scars, detective Alonzo Rhymer testified. The buckle was from the belt she wore as a security guard. It left multiple scars and open wounds.

“Some were fresh, some were old,” he testified.

When he defecated on himself, she beat him with the broom handle, which detectives found broken in two in the home, Rhymer testified.

She admitted to hurling the boy across the room and said he hit a table, gasped for air, asked for water and struggled to breathe. Later she she called 911 , the detective said.

In the past, Caze had “refused to seek medical attention to treat the victim's injuries, instead concocting a remedy of vegetable oil and laundry blue to treat the victim's wounds,” a North Miami detective wrote.

On Tuesday, DCF Secretary Esther Jacobo said there were three prior reports to the child welfare agency about the family, all in 2010.

Among the reports, was a call in October 2010. Caze had been arrested, and was being evaluated at Miami’s Juvenile Assessment Center, after she and Ghanson’s father, Donald Debrosse, had a physical altercation.

A DCF report on that incident said Caze was holding Ghanson, then an infant, in her arms while attacking Debrosse and “throwing things at him.” Both parents, the report said, were injured during the fight. And though Caze allegedly tried to “throw the infant at the father,” records say Ghanson was unharmed.

For Cuevas, the details of the case were heartbreaking. He said it’s hard to believe no one saw the signs of abuse and reported them to authorities.

“It is up to us as a community to be a voice for these children,” he said. “All of us need to step up and take responsibility. If you see something or suspect something, tell someone. It will save lives.

 http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/22/3886748/the-short-tormented-life-of-ghanson.html#storylink=cpy

Mom charged with torturing toddler who died

Jan. 22, 2014 at 4:58 PM

NORTH MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Miami-area woman has admitted beating her 3-year-old son savagely in the days before he died, police said.

Fafane Caze, 21, was charged with aggravated child abuse and torture Tuesday, hours after Ghanson Debrosse was pronounced dead, the Miami Herald reported. North Miami Police Maj. Neal Cuevas said doctors at Jackson North Medical Center believe the boy had been dead for three hours before an ambulance was summoned after 3 a.m. Tuesday.

"There were signs of abuse on every inch of his body, and he really suffered," Cuevas said.

Caze, when she was first questioned, allegedly told investigators the boy had been staying with relatives in Haiti until about two weeks ago and was injured there. But Cuevas said Ghanson had clearly been injured more recently as well as in the past.

"There were signs of his being burned -- his lips, his face, his fingers," Cuevas said. "Somebody is going to be held accountable for this."
Caze's other children, a girl, 4, and boy, 1, are now in the care of the Department of Children and Families.