STONI BLAIR and STEPHEN BERRY - 13 and 9 yo (5/2013 & 8/2012)/ Arrested: Mother; Mitchelle Blair - Detroit MI

Father speaks out after daughter found dead in mom’s freezer

POSTED 9:34 AM, MARCH 30, 2015,
BY JOE MILLITZER AND ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT (AP) – Autopsies have determined that two children found dead in a freezer in their Detroit home were beaten to death, with the youngest child also suffering “thermal injuries.”

The Wayne County medical examiner’s office released the autopsy results Friday on Stoni Blair and her brother, Stephen Berry. It says both deaths were homicides.

The children’s mother, Mitchelle Blair, was arrested Tuesday after court officers found the bodies while conducting an eviction at her home. She is charged with child abuse but prosecutors said they may charge her with murder.

Blair’s two other children were placed with a relative. Child welfare officials say they were horribly abused.

Alex Dorsey is Stoni’s father and is also the father of another of Blair’s daughters. He tells WXYZ-TV he didn’t understand why Blair stopped letting him take his daughters for visits two years ago.   He said Blair would tell him Stoni wasn’t home, and he would talk to his oldest daughter, 17, at the door.  He recently lost his job and didn’t have money.

“Two years,” Dorsey told WXYZ. “Every time I asked, she was never there. She was sitting right there. Lord have mercy, she was sitting right there.”

The state of Michigan is trying to take away his 17-year-old daughter.  WXYZ-TV reports a petition says he abandoned his girls and failed to take legal action to obtain parenting time. It also says he owes $39,000 in child support.

Investigators believe Stoni was 13 when she died and Stephen was 9. They think Stephen died in August 2012 and Stoni died the next May.

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