AIYDEN DAVIS - 2 yo (2010)/ charged: Mother and BF; Teresa Foster and Reginald Williams - Brooklyn NY

A Brooklyn woman and her live-in boyfriend have been charged in the beating death of the woman’s young son.The boyfriend, 31-year-old Reginald Williams, has been charged with second-degree murder, while the toddler’s mother, 27-year-old Teresa Foster, faces charges of criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.Police responded to a 911 call from 41 Kingston Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 10 p.m. on Friday night. When they arrived, they found two-year-old Aiyden Davis covered in bruises and unresponsive.

The little boy had been left Williams’ care.A neighbor said he heard the baby crying – and had heard rumors of abuse.“His friend heard something going on,” the neighbor said. “He was actually hearing, you know, this guy abusing the baby, yelling at him and spanking him and whatnot.”The medical examiner had ruled the death a homicide, citing blunt impact injuries to the head, torso and extremities as the cause of death. Liver lacerations and internal bleeding were also found.

A man accused in the beating death of his companion’s 2-year-old son confessed to striking the boy with his hands, knees and elbows and slamming him to the floor in the hours before police officers found the boy bruised and listless in his mother’s Brooklyn apartment, a prosecutor said on Sunday. The man, Reginald Williams, 31, was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court on murder, manslaughter, assault and other charges related to the death of the boy, Aiyden Davis. During the same proceeding, Aiyden’s mother, Teresa Foster, 27, was arraigned on charges of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child. Police officers went to Ms. Foster’s apartment on Kingston Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday night after a man in the apartment called 911 and said the child was unresponsive. Mr. Williams had been watching Aiyden on Friday while Ms. Foster, a security guard, was at work in Manhattan. Paramedics took him to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of death was “blunt impact injuries of the head, torso and extremities with liver laceration and internal bleeding,” according to the city medical examiner’s office. Assistant District Attorney Colleen Babb said in court that the medical examiner found that some of the injuries were consistent with beatings with a belt. Ms. Babb said that Mr. Williams admitted to investigators that he beat the child until he hit the floor — to the point that his own hands hurt from delivering the blows. She added that while Ms. Foster was not present at the time of her son’s death, she admitted to investigators that she beat Aiyden over a period of about two weeks earlier in the month. Mr. Williams, a slight man with a beard, stood before Judge Loren Baily-Schiffman in gray jeans and a black windbreaker, as his lawyer, Herbert J. Moses, said that his client “has some regrets.” Mr. Moses added, however, that some of Mr. Williams’ statements to the police were taken out of context. Ms. Babb countered that she had oral, written and video statements of Mr. Williams saying that he beat Aiyden at various times from Sept. 13th to Sept. 20th, and again on Friday, the day of his death. Mr. Williams, who had an open warrant for a misdemeanor charge involving marijuana, pleaded not guilty. Judge Baily-Schiffman denied a request for bail and ordered him jailed until his next court date on Sept. 28. Mr. Moses, who also represents Ms. Foster, said that she was “by all accounts a very good mother.” “She thought she was trying to do the right thing by leaving the child with the boyfriend,” he added. “She had no idea of what was going to happen to the boy. If she had, she never would have left him.” A spokesman for the Administration for Children’s Services said that the agency was investigating the death, and that the boy’s family did not appear to have had previous contact with the agency. Ms. Foster appeared in court wearing what appeared to be the security guard uniform that she was wearing at the time of her arrest. Mr. Moses said that Ms. Foster had given permission for Mr. Williams to discipline her child but not “to that extreme.” According to Ms. Babb, Ms. Foster had admitted to investigators that she beat her son repeatedly with a belt on separate occasions from Sept. 1 to Sept. 12. Ms. Foster also pleaded not guilty. Mr. Moses described the crimes she was accused of as “a typical assault.” But Judge Baily-Schiffman disagreed. “The allegations are this child was beaten over a period of time, not just on one day,” she said. “I can’t treat this as if it were a misdemeanor now. It’s way too serious.” The judge then set bail at $150,000, and Ms. Foster was returned to custody.

Brooklyn man hit and body-slammed tot Aiyden Davis 'until his own hands hurt,' prosecutor says


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Aunt Pamela Davis (below) grieves Saturday for tot Aiyden Davis, who died one day earlier.







A Brooklyn man charged with beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old son to death told cops he struck and body-slammed the toddler "until his own hands hurt," a prosecutor revealed Sunday.
Tragic tot Aiyden Davis spent at least the last 20 days of his life subjected to the twisted cruelty of Reginald Williams, 31, and his own mother, Teresa Foster, 27, cops said.
Williams said in a written and videotaped confession to cops that he used his hands and knees to brutalize the child between Sept. 13 and Friday, when the boy was hospitalized and died.
He even body slammed the defenseless little boy, Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Colleen Babb said yesterday.
Aiyden's mom, a security guard, also admitted to routinely abusing her son with a belt from Sept. 1 to Sept. 12 and giving Williams permission to discipline him, Babb said.
Williams was ordered held without bail yesterday after being arraigned on a second-degree murder charge.
Foster, who appeared in court wearing her blue security guard shirt, was being held last night in lieu of $150,000 bail. She was charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Cops said Williams fatally beat the child because he had refused to recite his ABCs.
"We want him dead," Aiyden's grieving aunt Keisha Davis said of Williams, an ex-con who had been homeless and living on the streets until he moved in recently with Foster. Foster's family refused to believe she laid a hand on her son - despite her reported confession to detectives. "My nephew came from a loving family," said Foster's aunt Pamela Davis. "This is not what our family is about - never!"
Pamela Davis said she suspects Foster didn't bring Aiyden to her to baby-sit Friday, as she has done since his birth, because the child bore bruises from a previous beating by Williams.
Cops discovered Aiyden's battered body after responding to a 911 call made from Foster's Kingston Ave. apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday night.
The child died at Interfaith Medical Center from blunt trauma to his head, torso and extremities that left him with a lacerated liver and internal bleeding.
Robert Burston, 49, who lives next-door to Foster, said he heard Williams beating Aiyden through the thin walls of his apartment, but never reported the abuse.
"I could hear him yelling, cursing at the baby, 'Sit down,' 'Do this,' 'Do that' and spanking the baby," Burston said.
He said he never intervened because he didn't know the family.
"I wish I did get to know them. I would have intervened. Beating on children ...that's not right" said Burston, staring at a votive candle and teddy bear left on the stoop of the building.
Defense Attorney Herbert Moses, who represented Williams and Foster in court, said Aiyden's mom denies ever hitting her child or knowing that Williams was beating him.
Moses said of Williams, "He has regrets."

A 27-year old woman sitting in a cell at Rikers Island has only one wish, says her lawyer.Teresa Foster wants to attend her 2-year-old son’s funeral, but faces possible murder charges for his brutal death.Last week, Aiyden Davis was found unconscious after police rushed to Foster’s apartment at 41 Kingston Ave. in response to a 911 call of assault. He was pronounced dead at Interfaith Medical Center. Foster, was at her job as a security guard at the time, but left her son with her boyfriend, Reginald Williams, 31. It was his first time baby-sitting the boy alone.Foster was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child. Williams was charged with second-degree murder.A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office said the cause of death was “blunt impact injuries of the head, torso and extremities with liver laceration and internal bleeding.”According to news reports, Williams began beating Aidyen with his hands, elbows and knees, then slammed him to the floor when the boy refused to recite his ABCs. According to the criminal complaint, Foster admitted to investigators to beating Aiyden with a belt between Sept. 1 and Sept. 12 and that it caused a welt. An official in the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office found bruises on the boy’s body during the autopsy consistent with injuries caused by a belt.Laura Postiglione, a spokeswoman at the Administration for Children’s Services, wrote in an e-mail the agency was investigating the death, but said she could not comment further on the case.In recent weeks, the ACS has come under intense public outrage after admitting serious lapses in the case of 4-year-old Marchella Pierce. The girl was found bruised and weighing less than 20 pounds in her mother’s apartment on Sept. 2.Stephanie Gendell, Associate Executive Director for Policy and Public Affairs at the Citizens’ Committee for Children, said the Davis case is different because it appears ACS had no knowledge of abuse happening.“There were neighbors and families who seemed to know this child was not being taken care of and no one made a report,” she said. “What needed to be done for this family was someone to have alerted the system.”Richard H. Calica, Executive Director at the Juvenile Protective Agency in Chicago and a leading authority on child welfare, said agencies like ACS have standards to identify situations where children would be at high risk for harm. He said even with these protocols in place, violent human behavior is unpredictable and about 40 percent of parents never harm their children even after they are identified as a risk.“Just because you hit your kid with a belt today doesn’t mean you’ll break your kid’s arm tomorrow,” he said.Calica said the most difficult decision for outsiders in such cases when an agency is not protecting a child is when to become involved.“At what level of evidence does society need in order to be able to have the right to be nosing around in family affairs?” he said.Foster, who is being held on $150,000 bail, pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn Criminal Court. According to news reports, Judge Loren Baily-Schiffman said she could not consider the charges against Foster as “typical assault.”“The allegations are this child was beaten over a period of time, not just on one day,” she said. “I can’t treat this as if it were a misdemeanor now. It’s way too serious.”The grand jury was scheduled to resume its hearing Friday.

Brooklyn mom accused of attacking her defenseless child attends son's funeral

Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 4:00 AM

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Mourner is filled with grief at Queens funeral of Aiyden Davis (below). Tot's mom, Teresa Foster, is accused of repeatedly beating Aiyden before her boyfriend allegedly killed him.


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The mother bent over the tiny white coffin, whispered a few words and kissed her 2-year-old son goodbye.
It would have been a heartbreaking scene except that the mom, Teresa Foster, is accused of repeatedly hitting the defenseless toddler with a belt before her boyfriend allegedly killed the Brooklyn child.
Foster, 27, is being held on assault and endangerment charges at Rikers Island but was granted permission to attend little Aiyden Davis' funeral Monday.
She was handcuffed as she was escorted into the Jamaica, Queens, funeral home by police and correction officers. Inside, some of those gathered shouted words of encouragement.
"We're going to help you get out of this mess!" someone yelled at Foster, who is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail.
Foster's lover, Reginald Williams, 31, allegedly beat the little boy to death on Sept. 24 because he wouldn't recite his ABCs.
Williams, who is charged with second-degree murder, told cops he hit Aiyden so hard his hands hurt, authorities said.
Cops say Foster admitted that in the weeks before the fatal punishment, she routinely lashed her son.
Relatives refuse to believe it.
"Teresa loved her son," said Foster's grandmother Bertha German, 65. "She would not hurt her son."
At the funeral, there was palpable tension between Teresa Foster's family and relatives of Aiyden's father, Ameen Foster.
"I still don't understand a 31-year-old man beating on my grandchild," said Aiyden's paternal grandmother, Stephanie Pratt, 56, of Mount Vernon, Westchester County.
"I want somebody to shake me and wake me up," she said. "I haven't been eating or sleeping."
Tears streaked the face of Ameen Foster. "He was the best," he said of his son. "He gave me the best years of my life."
He then helped carry his son's coffin out of the funeral home and into a hearse, where he placed a small bouquet of blue-and-white flowers next to the child-sized coffin.
Aiyden was buried in Rosedale Cemetery in Linden, N.J., dressed in white from head to toe."He looked like what you would call a baby angel," said grieving aunt Audrey Foster of Brooklyn.
She said her brother Ameen Foster was "devastated."
"He's heartbroken," she said. "He loved his child."

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