11YO Girl Bitten, Strangled & Beaten To Death 2 Months After Being Adopted

[Sugar Cookie]

A 39-year-old woman who works as a behavioral health specialist and senior class adviser at Kahuku High and Intermediate School was arrested on campus Friday and charged with manslaughter for allegedly torturing and neglecting her 11-year-old adopted daughter who died in December 2023.

The victim, Azaeliyah Pili-Ah You, had “multiple injuries from child abuse, ” and the manner of her death was homicide, Lt. Deena Thoemmes, head of the Honolulu Police Department’s Strategic Enforcement and Homicide Detail, told reporters Friday at a news conference.

Pili-Ah You had extensive bruising “deep enough to penetrate skin ” and reaching her diaphragm, Thoemmes said. The child also had multiple abrasions to her face, head, neck, chest, back, arms, hands and legs.

The girl had wounds consistent with being bitten, internal injuries to her neck “likely from strangulation, ” two broken ribs and a scalp hemorrhage, and her left lung was dark, indicative of pneumonia, Thoemmes said. Pili-Ah You’s body tested positive for COVID-19, pneumonia and the flu, according to HPD.

The child’s adoptive mother, Sina Pili, was indicted Friday by an Oahu grand jury and charged with manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a minor and persistent nonsupport, according to state court documents.

Pili-Ah You was adopted by Pili and her husband two months before she died. Thoemmes said the girl’s adoptive father has not been arrested, but remains under investigation.

Kahuku mother arrested in death of 11-year-old girl

A 39-year-old woman who works as a behavioral health specialist and senior class adviser at Kahuku High and Intermediate School was arrested on campus Friday and charged with manslaughter for allegedly torturing and neglecting her 11-year-old adopted daughter who died in December 2023. The...

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Woman slapped, punched her adoptive daughter for 30 minutes before she died, police say

Honolulu police have arrested a woman in connection with the 2023 death of her 11-year-old adoptive daughter.

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[runninfawn]

can her sentense please be " you will be punched and slapped for 30 minutes but since your daughter was about half your size and you were the autority in your house and she had no say then 2 people at one time to equal to how your daughter felt , her size and yours and a 3rd one as autority figure all 3 slapping and punching you for 30 minutes straight.. autority figure one can call for 3 fresh bodies to take over every minute or 2 so everyone can have a go at you " if you survive that then you can pass the rest of your life in general population in the toughest woman's jail ...

 

[Aedia]

The adoptive father needs charged as well. No way he didn't know this was happening.
How heartbreaking. The poor girl was probably hoping this was going to be her forever home where she finds a family and all she found was suffering!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

As homicide detectives investigated Azaeliyah’s death, child abuse detectives began looking into the possible abuse of Pili’s four other adopted children, all of whom were 12 and under.

In the days before her death, Azaeliyah stayed home from school multiple times due to illness, at one point registering a fever of 101 degrees, Thoemmes said during a Friday news conference.

On the morning of Azaeliyah’s death, Pili allegedly forced the victim to run to a nearby chapel, despite the fact that she still felt ill.

“On the day that Azaeliyah died, after Sina [Pili] made her run to and from the chapel, Sina [Pili] slapped and punched Azaeliyah multiple times over a period of approximately 30 minutes,” Thoemmes said.

The medical examiner detailed Azaeliyah’s injuries, including “extensive bruising” that Thoemmes said went so deep that it “penetrated the skin” and “could be seen reaching the diaphram.”

“Multiple abrasions to the face, head, neck, chest, back, arms, hands and legs,” Thoemmes said. “Wounds to the nose consistent with being bitten. A linear abrasion to the outside of the neck and internal injuries to the inside of the neck, likely from strangulation. Two rib fractures. Hemorrhage under the scalp, at the top of her head.”

The autopsy further showed that Azaeliyah had tested positive for COVID and influenza A, and that she had pneumonia.

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