Another child has died after protecting his mother from her horrible choices.
11-year-old Jayden Perkins lost his life while trying to protect his pregnant mother from her abusive ex-boyfriend.
The suspect, Crosetti Brand, 37, has had multiple orders of protection taken out against him by different women.
Brand was released on parole just one day before the attack, that took the young boy's life and left his mother with multiple stab wounds, she and her unborn child are expected to survive.
Brand is alleged to have forced his way into the woman's apartment, stabbed her repeatedly, then stabbed her son Jayden Perkins when the boy came to her aid.
During a detention hearing Friday, prosecutors said the woman had been alerted when Brand was released on parole in October because she was the victim in previous domestic violence cases against Brand, including repeated violations of protection orders.
Just months after his release, the woman received a text message from Brand on Jan. 30 threatening her family, prosecutors said. Two days later, he allegedly appeared at the door of her apartment building.
Prosecutors said the woman informed the state parole officials. When confronted by a commander from the Illinois Department of Corrections, Brand admitted going to the woman's home but claimed he was "looking for an apartment."
Still, Brand was sent back to prison while the Illinois Prisoner Review Board considered the allegations, prosecutors said.
The board held a hearing and “determined the alleged violations did not meet the preponderance of evidence standard,” it said in a statement, adding that Brand was “returned to parole on March 12 and notifications were made again to registered victims.”
The board did not say why they did not find Brand in violation of his parole, given Brand’s criminal record and his past experience with the woman.
The woman was on her phone with her mother, shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday, when she opened the door of her apartment and Brand allegedly forced his way in.
The woman's mother said she could hear her daughter screaming "no" and using a nickname for Brand as he repeatedly stabbed her, according to prosecutors. Then the line went dead.
The woman's son Jayden “attempted numerous times to help his mother and was also stabbed,” prosecutors said. The knife severed a major artery, and the boy bled to death.
The woman was able to lock herself into a bedroom, and Brand finally left after kicking at the door, prosecutors said. He was allegedly caught on several surveillance cameras fleeing, including one that showed him tossing a "silver item" over a fence. A bloody knife was later found there.
The woman, who was four months pregnant, later identified Brand as the attacker.
After hearing the graphic details of the attack, Judge Maryam Ahmad ordered Brand detained on murder, attempted murder, home invasion, armed robbery and other charges.
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Man charged with killing boy, stabbing pregnant mom -- but questions remain why he was released from prison
Officials have struggled to explain why Crosetti Brand, 37, was released from the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday — a day before the attack — after he had been sent back to prison earlier this year for menacing the woman while on parole.
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