Sentenced: 4YO Had Homemade Stitches In Her Mouth, Burns, Bite Marks, Punctures & Broken Bones

[Sugar Cookie]

The caretaker of a 4-year-old child was charged with murder in what was described as "potentially one of the worst cases of child abuse anyone has ever seen."

Samilya Brown, 38, is charged with murder, endangering the welfare of a child and other related charges in the death of 4-year-old Zya Singleton.

During a news conference on Tuesday, officials said the child had been abused for years and was found with homemade stitches in her mouth, burns on her arm and leg, broken bones, open wounds, bite marks and puncture wounds.

On October 30, Brown said Zya had fallen out a second-story window while playing with a cat. But authorities said they quickly realized that was not the case.

"When police arrived she was in a second-floor bathroom being put in cold water," said Assistant District Attorney Chesley Lightsey.

Zya was rushed to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital but was transferred to CHOP. She died from complications from those injuries on November 3.

"We believe there was no fall," Lightsey said.

"This is a horrific, heartbreaking case of abuse, neglect, and murder of an innocent, defenseless child," District Attorney Larry Krasner said.

Authorities said the last known photos of the child were taken in 2017.

Officials said they have a notarized letter from 2016 giving custody of Zya to Brown by the girl's biological mother. They do not believe she knew of the abuse.

"I would not use the word care. (Brown) abused her, stitched her up, abused her again, stitched her up," Lightsey said. "She burnt her with some kind of scaling liquid and patched her up at home."

'Horrific' child abuse: Philadelphia woman charged with murder in death of 4-year-old

The caretaker of a 4-year-old child was charged with murder on Tuesday in what was described as "potentially one of the worst cases of child abuse anyone has ever seen."

6abc.com

 

[The Night Nurse]

"We believe there was no fall," Lightsey said.

Understatement of the year.

"...found with homemade stitches in her mouth"

Holy fuck. This is one of the things no sane person would ever try at home.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

evil woman was plunging her in the magic cold bath even as EMTs arrived.

 

[Ripley]

What a sweet little face, probably died wondering why mommy had deserted her

 

[Sejanus]

Experiment on this pig using homemade stitches.
Use dirty dental floss.

 

[Bobbo]

Geez!

How bad would’ve her life been with her mother?

 

[Doober]

No words just sad.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Waiting for mom to come out with her pitiful give me attention statement.

This poor baby girl suffered and for so long that death was probably a relief when it came.

 

[Inferus]

I see her record for ruining her life remains perfectly intact.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Ruining children's lives you mean.

 

[Forfcuksake]

Guess what’s happening to her when they find out what she’s done

 

[MildlyMedicated]

Guess what’s happening to her when they find out what she’s done

Nothing nearly as horrific as it should be...

 

[hzlb]

Dang it, S Cookie ---- your postings Ima just gonna start crying before i even open to read em. This one gave me the willies / shivers to my core ...
So many, Too many stories are beginning to start Off the same " One of the worst cases of child abuse anyone has ever seen." Abt time, the shed doors are opened and used PERIOD
WHY, are the perps still breathing? If you can not take care of them once and for all > Send them all to CA

 

[AngryLittleMexican]

OMG is this Tracy Morgans even uglier sister? Holy fucktastic, imagine the cuntwhore soulless bitch who willingly dumped her defenseless child with this monster?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Zya’s biological mother, Jasmine Singleton, told KYW that she saw Zya after being told she was in the hospital.

Jasmine Singleton says she gave custody of her daughter to a family friend because she didn’t have the means to take care of her. She says she never realized that so-called friend would be responsible for Zya’s murder.

“I love my daughter and I wish I didn’t get her back like this,” Singleton said.

“You can’t prepare no mom for what I walked in that room and saw. My baby’s face was destroyed, all she had was eyes and a head that was taped up with burns on her body. I walked into the room and walked out,” Singleton said.

“I hope she burns in this jail cell,” Singleton said of Brown.

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You had already walked out of your daughter's life and left her to be tortured.

Zya was missing almost the entire part of her lip up through her nose, the result of an injury that had never been treated by a doctor, Lightsey said. She also had homemade stitches in her mouth and on her head, where she had open wounds, the prosecutor said.

In addition, Zya had burns over significant parts of her body that hadn’t been treated, and she had broken bones in her arms that appeared to be from some kind of restraint, Lightsey explained.

Caretaker facing murder charge after telling police 4-year-old fell out window; doctors find burn marks, homemade stitches

PHILADELPHIA — After police found 4-year-old Zya Singleton badly injured, her caretaker told them that the girl had fallen out a second-floor window while playing with a cat. But doctors exam…

myfox8.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

There are new details in the gruesome case against a foster mom accused of killing a 4-year-old child. On Tuesday, a medical examiner took the stand in the case against Samilya Brown.

The examiner says the child, Zya Singleton, died of repeated and prolonged injuries.

The toddler’s brain was so swollen it cracked her skull.

Detectives say during the course of the case, they uncovered the little girl had been burned, beaten and abused at the hands of her foster mom for most of her life.

Officials: 4-Year-Old Girl Died Of Repeated, Prolonged Injuries At Hands Of Foster Mother

On Tuesday, a medical examiner took the stand in the case against Samilya Brown.

philadelphia.cbslocal.com

The Philadelphia woman accused of brutally beating, burning, starving and biting a 4-year-old child will be held on first-degree murder charges.

Samilya Brown avoided looking at horrific pictures of 4-year-old Zya Singleton’s battered body and shredded face on the screen, but many in the gallery gasped and sobbed at the gruesome sights.

"The wound to Zya’s mouth and nose is visually the most disturbing," said homicide prosecutor Chesley Lightsey.

Philadelphia woman accused of torturing 4-year-old to death held on murder charges

The Philadelphia woman accused of brutally beating, burning, starving and biting a 4-year-old child will be held on first-degree murder charges. Read more here.

kywnewsradio.radio.com

 

[cubby]

The name Samilya sounds like a disease, the tropical kind that you can't get off with Ajax, but it would be fun to start at her nose and keep scrubbing until you reach the back of her skull, then soften her up with a baseball bat, throw her off the roof then revive her with the good old cold water in the bath trick. Then do it all again. I imagine this will almost be as painful as what she put that beautiful baby girl thru.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Her brain was so swollen it cracked her skull

 

[Jeff T]

There will be justice, but it won't be found in a court room.

 

[Pandorama]

Her brain was so swollen it cracked her skull

That wouldn't have happened. It would have been cracked and then swollen. Brains are soft. They just collapse in on themselves if they swell enough to touch skull

 

[McDanel]

That wouldn't have happened. It would have been cracked and then swollen. Brains are soft. They just collapse in on themselves if they swell enough to touch skull

cranial sutures wouldn't be closed yet, maybe parted along the sutures rather than cracked.

 

[caitierig]

Whether the skull was cracked pre- or post-brain swell, what a painful, terrifying experience. We could always use Samilya’s head to test all the theories on how it happened...

 

[Sevens My Charm]

That wouldn't have happened. It would have been cracked and then swollen. Brains are soft. They just collapse in on themselves if they swell enough to touch skull

I was just quoting the article .. do you think the added amount of pressure with liquids of brain matter.. maybe a hair line fracture, maybe with all the abuse the top soft spot or when the skull formed at 18 months for both, they were misshapen or weakened while forming?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Samiya Brown received the maximum sentence Tuesday in the child abuse death of a 4-year-old girl in 2019.

Brown was caring for Zya Singleton through an informal agreement through a notarized letter with the child’s mother, Jasmine Singleton. She had not seen her daughter in two years.

In October 2019, Brown called police saying the child had fallen out of a window. When the hospital called Jasmine Singleton, she thought she might get her daughter back.

“When I got there, what I saw, it was unexplainable,” Zya’s mother said. “She didn’t have a face.”

Assistant Medical Examiner Julia de la Garza testified that the autopsy showed bruises, lacerations, bite marks and other contusions.

The cause of death was sepsis from an untreated head wound, but officials described burn scars with a pattern on them from improper treatment, and home-sewn stitches on a gaping facial wound.

In seeking the maximum sentence, Assistant District Attorney Chesley Lightsey argued that in each instance, Brown made a choice not to seek care for the child.

Brown’s defense attorney asked for leniency, arguing Brown was herself abused as a child and is trying to become a better person.

But Judge Lillian Ransom said she wanted to limit the possibility that Brown, 40, would ever have access to other children, and sentenced her to 30 to 60 years in prison.

Jasmine Singleton left the courtroom in anger when Brown offered an apology.

“Nothing about the words ‘I’m sorry’ that were coming out of her mouth was sincere,” the mother said.

MSN

 

[thuumpr]

MSN

I'm thinking 60 years would be the perfect sentence.

 

[runninfawn]

I'm thinking 60 years would be the perfect sentence.

without the possibility of parole for 59 years ...

 

[Hermy]

I'm glad to see that the judge wasn't moved by the excuse that Brown was also abused as a child. To the extent that it is true, this should be an aggravating circumstance, not a mitigating one as the abuser knows full well what abuse does to a child's body, mind and soul.

 

[Satanica]

You should get an even harsher sentence for knowing the heartbreak and pain of being abused yourself and then excusing yourself for doing the same or worse to another child. If she knew that she couldn't control her PTSD or whatever she thinks she has as a result of her own abuse, then she shouldn't have been taking care of a child.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Samiya Brown smiling with a fresh blowout is really pissing me off

If she gets out in thirty years she will only be around 70 - she needs to do the whole sixty.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

She should have gotten the DP, but unfortunately PA has a moratorium on it. The freak show who killed my nephew is sitting on “death row.”