20YO Dad Of Missing Toddler Jailed After Telling 17YO Mom He Threw Son Into Bronx River

[Sugar Cookie]

The father of a 2-year-old Bronx boy missing for a month has been thrown in jail after telling’s the toddler’s mom he threw their son in the Bronx River, police sources said Tuesday.


A Family Court judge ordered the 20-year-old dad held on Rikers Island without bail on Monday after he refused to say where his son Montrell Williams could be found, officials said. On Sunday, he threatened the boy’s mom with a knife when she demanded answers and told her he had tossed the boy into the river, a police source said.


On Tuesday, NYPD divers were searching for the missing boy in the Bronx River in the Soundview section of the Bronx, about a 15 minute walk from the dad’s home on Hunts Point Ave. near Lafayette Ave where the boy was last seen.


The dad was seen throwing a bag into the river near Bronx River Ave. and Bruckner Blvd. on May 10 — a day after Montrell came to spend time with him, a police source said.

The father and the boy’s 17-year-old mom have joint custody.

The toddler’s mother arranged for Montrell to join his father in attending a Mother’s Day celebration with the dad’s family, cops said.
 But sometime during the celebration, the father got in an argument with someone and stormed off with the child, the mother was told. He never returned Montrell to his mother.

On May 30, she reported to police the father had not returned the boy to her South Bronx home.


Cops were investigating her claims when on Sunday the mother confronted the father, demanding her son back.


During the frightening exchange, the father threatened the mom with a knife and told her he had thrown the child into the river, the police source said.


“She asked where their son was and he made concerning statements,” a second police source said.

The mother again called police, who took the father into custody for questioning early Monday. He was hauled into Family Court and then sent to Rikers Island when he wouldn’t divulge the location of his son.


The search of the Bronx River began Monday and ended around 9:30 p.m.


NYPD divers dove back into the rain swept waters Tuesday.


Dad of missing toddler jailed after telling mom he threw son into Bronx River

The dad of little Montrell Williams threatened the boy’s mom with a knife when she demanded to know where their son is, a police source said.

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[Sugar Cookie]

The father's name is Arius Williams.

 

[GoneWest]

I’m not understanding why the mom waited 20 days to report the dad to police for not returning the boy.

 

[Kitsune Faye]

I’m not understanding why the mom waited 20 days to report the dad to police for not returning the boy.

He’s more than likely pulled this shit before, but always returned the little guy.

 

[runninfawn]

I’m not understanding why the mom waited 20 days to report the dad to police for not returning the boy.

i was thinking joint custody so it might have been his time with his son granted a little early to attend mother's day with his dad's family but no way in hell would i have went even a day without "face timing" with my baby much less 20 days

 

[SimplySpaztastic]

Holy shit, that's so fucking sad. Heartbreaking.

This was one of my biggest fears going through my custody battle with its shitshow of special circumstances.. that my little would have been harmed by his dad or his dads gf, or not returned to me; and the orders would somehow prevent him being returned to me safely. Nightmare fuel, that would keep me up for literal days at a time.


So, apparently the baby was with his dad during a scheduled visit that was supposed to end with the baby being returned to mom on May 30th. Mom and her mother went to family court on the 30th when he wasn't returned to her by the scheduled time.

The dad's family also notified police shortly after the dad stormed off with the baby and he was seen at a cousin's house two hours later without the baby.
Appears that due to being dads time with the baby the police didn't do anything to ensure the baby's safety or well being. Even after the dad returned without him and wouldn't provide answers. ?? What the fuck

Seems to me that the police dropped the ball (in part, due to the custody orders/scheduled parenting time?) At what point should it have become a safety/ welfare check when the baby wasn't seen or produced that very night or at the latest next morning? Regardless of who's parenting time it is, when family members are calling police concerned about a baby's whereabouts isn't that a big deal?

The toddler’s mother left Montrell with his father around 10 p.m. on May 10 so they could attend a Mother’s Day celebration with the dad’s family, a police source said.

But a short time later, the father got in an argument with his mother and stormed off with the child. He never returned Montrell to the boy’s mother. Even the father’s family became alarmed.

According to the father’s own relatives, whenever Montrell is with his dad, it is the father’s mother who looks after the child.

“She was the one watching him, taking care of him,” one of the father’s cousins said.

“He wouldn’t change his diaper, he wouldn’t go to the store,” said the father’s aunt. “My sister did it all.”

Another cousin said she was in the bathroom at the apartment where the boy’s father lived with his mother when he stormed out with his son clad in only a T-shirt and diapers.

“Montrell wasn’t dressed,” the cousin said. “All he had was a T-shirt on and a blanket over him.”

The next time his family saw the boy’s father, he was without the child at his cousin’s Mott Haven apartment about two hours after leaving his mother’s home.

Relatives said they tried to hold the boy’s father at the cousin’s apartment as they questioned him about Montrell’s whereabouts, but he only told them, “He gone, he gone,” before fighting his way out.

Two police sources said cops are reviewing how the NYPD responded when they were first called shortly after the father had left the party and taken the boy with him. What’s being looked into is whether police looked for the dad, or didn’t after learning the boy was with him as part of a scheduled visit.

“The investigation should have been started,” said a man who identified himself as the father’s stepfather. “The police said they couldn’t do anything because he was Montrell’s father. Then we called again and they said the same thing, that they couldn’t do nothing.”

Over the next several weeks, according to the father’s relatives, he was posting on social media describing his activities with Montrell, but he never posted any images of the boy, and refused to let his family see the child.

“He was going on Facebook, he was going on IG [Instagram] and he was playing with us, ‘Oh, I got Montrell, I got Montrell, Auntie,” the father’s aunt said. “I said, ‘Where’s the baby? I don’t want to hear about nothing else. Where’s my nephew?’ He wouldn’t tell me. He never showed us a picture.”

His cousin said that she would often look for him at his usual haunts around the Bronx but never caught sight of him, believing he was avoiding her.

“I would always go to places he used to be at and he wouldn’t be there,” she said. “He’d be hiding.”

On May 30, the mother and Montrell’s maternal grandmother went to Family Court to report the father had not returned the boy to her South Bronx home. A warrant was issued for the dad’s arrest.

Cops were investigating the mother’s claims when on Sunday she confronted the father, demanding her son back.

Dad of missing toddler jailed after telling mom he threw son into Bronx River

The dad of little Montrell Williams threatened the boy’s mom with a knife when she demanded to know where their son is, a police source said.

www.nydailynews.com

 

[HEREIBE22]

News 12 has learned the father of a missing Bronx 2-year-old boy is currently being held at Rikers under a family warrant.
Police sources say they have video evidence of the father throwing something into the Bronx River. This is where police have been searching for the past two days.
Montrell Williams was last seen with his family on May 10. On May 30, a custodial interference report was made. On Monday, the NYPD began searching the Bronx River for the missing boy.
Williams' relatives say his father told his mother that he threw Montrell into the Bronx River.
Sources close to the investigation say there is a history of domestic violence.


https://westchester.news12.com/father-of-missing-bronx-2-year-old-boy-montrell-williams-in-custody

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A child’s body that was pulled from the Bronx River is likely that of 2-year-old Montrell Williams, a missing boy from the Bronx, according to local reports.

WCBS and WNBC both report that the NYPD Harbor Unit discovered the child’s body in the river on Wednesday.

While the identity has not been confirmed, police believe it is the body of Montrell.

WABC reports that detectives believe Montrell may have been thrown into the Bronx River by his father.

Divers find body of 2-year-old feared to have been thrown in river by father during custody visit, reports say

A child’s body that was pulled from the Bronx River is likely that of 2-year-old Montrell Williams, a missing boy from the Bronx, according to local reports.

www.fox34.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[thuumpr]

Let's see if we can do the math...

He's 20, was 18 when baby arrived. She's 17, was 15 when baby arrived.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Let's see if we can do the math...

He's 20, was 18 when baby arrived. She's 17, was 15 when baby arrived.

New York has a "close in age" exception, which can reduce penalties for consensual sexual activity between a 15 or 16-year-old and someone who is not more than four years older.

The parents of the girl may not have even attempted to press charges against Williams.

 

[HEREIBE22]

I will never understand it.... Why hurt the child? I pray this sperm donor dies slowly and painfully!

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Why? What is so wrong with a person that they can kill their own innocent child? That’s a rhetorical question. We see it here all the time, but still….

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The father of the 2-year-old Bronx boy who vanished last month was charged with his son’s murder Thursday – after video emerged of the heartless dad tossing the toddler into the Bronx River, cops and law enforcement sources said.

Arius Williams, 20, was charged with two counts each of murder and manslaughter in the death of little Montrell Williams, who was last seen on May 10, authorities said.

Video reviewed by investigators allegedly shows Arius launching the little boy into the air and throwing him into the river later that night, the sources said.

Then on Wednesday afternoon, a child’s body – believed to be Montrell’s – washed up near the Whitestone Bridge just off Ferry Point Park in Queens, according to the sources.

“We are dealing with two losses,” Leroy Burton, 51, told reporters as he waited for his son to be arraigned at the Bronx Criminal courthouse.

“I lost my child and we lost him, too,” he said, referring to his grandson, Montrell.

Arius previously worked with kids as a teacher’s assistant at a school, until a domestic violence incident last year with Montrell’s mother, his dad said.

“His mind is not there. He’s not the same person we knew,” he said of Arius, while his grief-stricken wife stared at the floor.

Over the last couple of months, Arius had been suffering with mental health issues, walking “back and forth, talking to himself, laughing, looking at the wall, all type of weird stuff,” Burton added.

Before the heartbreaking crime, the young dad – who had split custody of Montrell – took him to a Mother’s Day gathering, where he apparently got into a scuffle with his own mother and stormed off with the toddler, sources said.

In the days to come, the boy’s concerned 17-year-old mom called the cops, who appeared to have told her they couldn’t intervene if her son was on a regularly scheduled visit, the sources said.

When both parents ran into each other on the street Sunday, Arius allegedly pulled a knife on his ex and claimed he threw their son off the Bruckner Bridge, according to the sources.

Father charged with murdering 2-year-old son after allegedly throwing tot into Bronx River

The father of the 2-year-old Bronx boy who vanished last month was charged with his son’s murder Thursday

nypost.com

 

[BuffettGirl]

He's in the window when severe mental illness hits in young men...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

He's in the window when severe mental illness hits in young men...

His family is just trying to justify his behavior.

Getting the sads because you are held accountable for being abusive does not make you mentally ill.

 

[BuffettGirl]

His family is just trying to justify his behavior.

Getting the sads because you are held accountable for being abusive does not make you mentally ill.

Well, you know my brother has mental health issues, and he was right around 19 when it hit.

 

[HEREIBE22]

To be completely honest, does mental illness even matter in a case this heinous? Him being mentally ill doesn't change this child being terrified in the air and then drowning to death... He deserves to die!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Well, you know my brother has mental health issues, and he was right around 19 when it hit.

I am so sorry about your brother but in case like this I just don't like to blame child killing (s) on mental illness.

Most mentally ill people never hurt or kill anyone. The person they mostly hurt is themselves.

But I think his anger and hatred towards this girl who caused him (in his mind) to lose his job may play a bigger role.

At the party he had a fight with his own mother and ran off with the baby if he was exhibiting mental health issues why were they not the ones on the pine to the police raising the red flags.

Again I am not saying he does not have some issues but he could have just been a dead beat instead of killing his baby.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@BuffettGirl

A 2-year-old Bronx boy was still alive when he was “callously” thrown into a river by his father — who later boasted to the child’s worried mother, “Shut the f—k up! I threw that n—a into the river” when she confronted him about where the boy was, prosecutors said at the dad’s arraignment.

Video reviewed by investigators allegedly showed Arius Williams launching little Montrell Williams into the air and throwing him into the river just before midnight May 10, the day he went missing, ADA Astrid Borgstedt said in Bronx Criminal Court on Thursday.

Moments before the tot was tossed off the Bruckner Bridge, he appeared to be alive and standing upright in just a diaper, prosecutors said.

“The video surveillance shows clearly Montrell Williams was in the defendant’s arms,” Borgstedt said — noting footage from after the incident showed Williams walking by himself.

“He literally callously threw his 2-year-old child over the bridge that led to his death,” the prosecutor said.

The heartless father went to a relative’s house 45 minutes after allegedly throwing his son off the bridge, prosecutors revealed.

His family asked him what had happened, but he refused to explain and ran away, prosecutors said.

2-year-old was alive when tossed into Bronx River by dad — who later boasted to mom ‘I threw that n—a into the river’: prosecutors

A 2-year-old Bronx boy was still alive when he was “callously” thrown into a river by his father — who later boasted to the child’s worried mother, “Shut the f—k up! I…

nypost.com

 

[BuffettGirl]

I'm NOT excusing the behavior, I'm just saying, depending on the type of mental illness, you never know what the voices are telling the ill person. What the father described about the killer sounds like mental illness onslaught. Do I think deep down he has some? No, not really. I'm just saying he's in the age range of when it hits, so maybe it's a contributing factor. He's not off the hook in my book, that's for sure!

ETA: Learned how to spell 'range'...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The parents are negligent for letting their underage daughter get pregnant from someone who was not right in the head.

These people will see this tragedy as a way to get a payday.

If they shared custody then it is the fault of the teen girl's family for not attempting to get supervised visits for the young man after he physically attacked their daughter.

If this family really want to make a difference work towards changing the family court system.

Grieving kin of a 2-year-old boy whose dad allegedly threw him in the East River are blaming cops for not stopping the slaying — even though the tot was dead before the NYPD even knew he was missing.

Law-enforcement told The Post on Monday that the mom of little Montrell Williams did not alert cops that he had vanished with his father till May 11 — the day after Arius Williams, 20, had already allegedly threw his little son off the Bruckner Bridge in The Bronx.

But still no one knew what had happened to the boy for the next two weeks — and during that time, cops botched the investigation and left the accused killer dad roaming the streets, while Montrell’s mom and other relatives were frantic with no answers, the tot’s kin said at a press conference Monday.

“A 2-year-old boy is not here today due to the neglect of the NYPD,” said the Rev. Kevin McCall, a Big Apple community activist, outside the 40th Precinct stationhouse in The Bronx. “The Police Department knew that this was a missing case, and they failed this family.”

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Family of tragic tot whose dad allegedly tossed him into East River accuses NYPD of ‘negligence’: ‘We’re devastated’

Law-enforcement told The Post on Monday that the mom of little Montrell Williams did not alert cops that he had vanished with his father till May 11 — the day after Arius Williams, 20, had already …

nypost.com

 

[runninfawn]

"According to the father’s own relatives, whenever Montrell is with his dad, it is the father’s mother who looks after the child"... if that child was at scheduled time to have his dad then don't blame the mother for not alerting the police that her baby was missing, i think it was the grandmother that should have notified the police as soon as her son returned without the baby and wouldn't tell where he was... her first phone call should have been with the mother of the baby to see if her son had brought the baby to her and of course he did not, so her next call should have been to notify the police of that her grandson was missing while in the care of her son the baby's dad. the police are not mind readers that they can read the minds of everybody in their district... why the fluck do they blame the cops or the mom???

 

[BuffettGirl]

“A 2-year-old boy is not here today due to the neglect of the NYPD,” - Nah, a two year old boy is not here today because his father is a POS. Is this an activist 'reverend' like Al Sharpton is? Because what Al did regarding Tawana Brawley was less than holy, if that's the case, then him blaming NYPD makes more sense...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

"According to the father’s own relatives, whenever Montrell is with his dad, it is the father’s mother who looks after the child"... if that child was at scheduled time to have his dad then don't blame the mother for not alerting the police that her baby was missing, i think it was the grandmother that should have notified the police as soon as her son returned without the baby and wouldn't tell where he was... her first phone call should have been with the mother of the baby to see if her son had brought the baby to her and of course he did not, so her next call should have been to notify the police of that her grandson was missing while in the care of her son the baby's dad. the police are not mind readers that they can read the minds of everybody in their district... why the fluck do they blame the cops or the mom???

I am not blaming the 15YO I am blaming her parents and any older relative who are saying it is the NYPD's fault.

Since there is no information on whether this custody agreement was being enforced by the court or if the families made a verbal agreement it is hard to speak on the legalities of the mom's family not allowing the boy to go with his father.

However, the minute the teen mom was attacked her parents/guardians should have been at the family court to either enforce or change the visitation agreement.

I agree the paternal grandmother is more culpable than anyone involved in this tragedy. She knows her son and what his struggles are.

As a very jaded person I feel the family will look for a payout and sadly NY tends to just settle. Should the cops have looked into yes but I think both families would have protected and made excuses for the father because unfortunately to many Black men and teen boys are coddled and not held accountable for their actions(I am not saying all).


FYI - I don't think you were saying that I was I just wanted to expound on my comment.

 

[runninfawn]

I am not blaming the 15YO I am blaming her parents and any older relative who are saying it is the NYPD's fault.

Since there is no information on whether this custody agreement was being enforced by the court or if the families made a verbal agreement it is hard to speak on the legalities of the mom's family not allowing the boy to go with his father.

However, the minute the teen mom was attacked her parents/guardians should have been at the family court to either enforce or change the visitation agreement.

I agree the paternal grandmother is more culpable than anyone involved in this tragedy. She knows her son and what his struggles are.

As a very jaded person I feel the family will look for a payout and sadly NY tends to just settle. Should the cops have looked into yes but I think both families would have protected and made excuses for the father because unfortunately to many Black men and teen boys are coddled and not held accountable for their actions(I am not saying all).


FYI - I don't think you were saying that I was I just wanted to expound on my comment.

hey i never take replies to my comments personally at all and my comment was based on what was written in the news artical nothing at all to do with anyone else's comments and me of course b!tching about people that blames everyone else but themselves and want to make money out of it too by trying to put the blame on someone else ....

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The body recovered from the East River last week has been officially identified to be that of 2-year-old Montrell Williams.

The identification was made using DNA provided by the family.

Williams' cause of death is still pending.

Body recovered from East River confirmed to be 2-year-old Montrell Williams

The official identification was made using DNA provided by the family.

abc7ny.com

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Poor little guy. I would have taken him in a heartbeat and spoiled him rotten.

 

[Freyja]

The Mental Illness Card has been maxxed out and is currently in collections.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I call bullshit and the family is just looking for a payday.

All it will do is upgrade these women's' wig collections and their ability to support the deadbeat dirty dicks they choose.

Mama chose this man and unless a court says otherwise the police are very limited in what they can do in custodial matters.

The mother and grandmother of Montrell Williams, the two-year-old toddler whose body was discovered in the Bronx River by New York Police Department officers on June 11, filed a $60 million lawsuit against the NYPD on August 7. The following day, during a press conference, they accused the police of lacking urgency in their search efforts after Montrell went missing on Mother’s Day.

According to Gothamist, Ciera Carroll, the boy’s 17-year-old mother, said in a news conference outside of the NYPD’s 40th Precinct that after she informed them that the father of the child, and the primary suspect in his murder, 20-year-old Arius Williams, had a warrant for his arrest, the NYPD reportedly told her "So what," in response.

According to CBS News, Williams, who entered a not guilty plea on the charges, is currently charged with murder and manslaughter and is being held without bail.

Rev. Kevin McCall, the spokesperson for the family, said that police were aware of domestic violence in the home, and even knowing that history, a family court still chose to allow Williams to have some kind of custody arrangement with the child.


The NYPD "knew that there was a history of domestic violence within the home, that within the home they knew that the father, the mother, the son, whether it was mental abuse or whether it was physical abuse, they knew that because of the history," McCall told CBS News.

He also told Pix 11 in a separate statement, "Two-year-old Montrell Williams should be here today if it wasn't for the NYPD being neglectful in finding him. No amount of money will bring him back, however, the NYPD has to be held responsible."

"I want the NYPD to know what they did. They told me not to follow him and to go to the police to file a complaint," Carroll said. "I told the police that he had a warrant, they said, ‘So what?'"

According to her mother, 35-year-old Octavia Roane, the police hung up in her daughter’s face after they said "‘So what'."


"She’s very hurt right now," Roane said. "The way the police responded, the way they acted towards us, no care in the world."

In addition to the mother and daughter’s assertions that they called the police multiple times before the police said that they declared the child missing, the toddler’s other set of grandparents said during their son’s arraignment that they filed multiple missing persons reports and officers took longer than a month to officially launch a search after initially referring them to family court.

MSN

Policies need to be changed not pay days for women and/or men who make poor choices on who they have children with or by.