Brice Bainum Killed Girlfriend's 5YO Son For Being Disrespectful, Would Force Boy to Eat Hot Sauce For Crying

[Sugar Cookie]

32-year-old Brice Bainum is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son, allegedly beating the boy to death and then coaching his mother on what to say to police. Brice Bainum was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with one count of murder in the child’s horrific death, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Bainum is also facing an additional count of interfering with the reporting of a crime for allegedly preventing his girlfriend from calling authorities or getting her son medical help.

An autopsy determined that the 5-year-old suffered an array of injuries, including a brain bleed as well as visible bruising to his head, back, and buttocks, among other areas. The manner of death was determined to be homicide with the cause of death being injuries sustained due to assault.

Court documents obtained by The Times of Northwest Indiana provided additional and shocking details about what allegedly led to the victim’s brutal death.

According to the report, the boy’s mother initially told investigators that she did not believe Bainum would hurt her son, saying the boy “really looked up to” Bainum. However, that reportedly changed as the interview continued.

The mother said that Bainum felt her son was being “disrespectful” and punished the child by making him take a 15-minute cold shower and continue apologizing for about an hour straight, South Bend, Indiana CBS and Fox affiliate WSBT reported. Sometime later, she witnessed Bainum yelling at the boy, who was crying, scared, and appeared to have been struck “really hard.”

Bainum allegedly claimed that the victim had bit him with enough force to leave a mark. When the mother told Bainum to stop abusing the victim, he allegedly responded by saying, “F— you, he is not going to bite me,” South Bend NBC affiliate WNDU reported.

Several hours later, the victim’s mother said she found her son unresponsive and cold to the touch on the floor in his room. When she tried to call 911, Bainum allegedly took the phone from her and refused to give it back for more than an hour, WSBT reported.

When she finally did call 911, Bainum allegedly “coached” her about the story they would tell police.

“She said Brice [Bainum] told her that we (police) are not her friend,” a charging document says.

The mother also said that Bainum would regularly get “jealous” when she showed her son “too much attention” and punished him in cruel ways, including forcing him to eat hot sauce for crying too much and verbally abusing him.

Boyfriend 'jealous' of 5-year-old getting 'too much attention' beat him to death, police say

Brice Bainum is accused of beating his girlfriend's 5-year-old son to death in Indiana for being "disrespectful" despite the boy apologizing for an hour straight, police said.

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On March 7th the Honorable Superior Court 1 Judge, Jaime Oss, determined probable cause existed to formally charge Halie Danae Lewis with one count of Neglect of a Dependent Causing Death (Level 1 Felony). Judge Oss set bond at $100,000- CASH ONLY. Ms. Lewis is currently housed in the LaPorte County Jail pending her initial hearing.

Court documents also said a neighbor living above the apartment told police she heard a faucet running inside their home and the voice of a “little boy” saying “no, please stop. I will be a good boy.”

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Augustus Williams

 

[BuffettGirl]

32 year old men should look like MEN. Not Justin Bieber circa 2011 FFS... Damn baby killing fuckstick!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

32 year old men should look like MEN. Not Justin Bieber circa 2011 FFS... Damn baby killing fuckstick!

I am more pissed at the mother she allowed her child to be tortured.

 

[BuffettGirl]

I am more pissed at the mother she allowed her child to be tortured.

I am too. It was just that awful 'do! I got stuck.

 

[Kitsune Faye]

My Jacob’s 5 (y’all remember when I was telling you I was pregnant, and later updated you regularly after he was born; Ik time flies. Last time, you guys blinked, he went from newborn to a kindergartner), and I’d kill anyone who so much as thought of hurting him, or my nieces and nephews. Burn both alive atp.

 

[Ella Mayo]

Where's the kid's father? DD has maybe forty thousand iterations of the same story. WHERE IS THE KID'S FAMILY? Remember FAMILIES? Humans are not cattle. Make a baby, stay with the baby. Put away the XBOX and grow up.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The female is going to make herself out to be a victim

 

[Kitsune Faye]

Where's the kid's father? DD has maybe forty thousand iterations of the same story. WHERE IS THE KID'S FAMILY? Remember FAMILIES? Humans are not cattle. Make a baby, stay with the baby. Put away the XBOX and grow up.

What father? Either he’s in prison, dead, or doesn’t gaf about anyone but himself. I agree with you on this. And what pisses me off other than the bitch allowing that sweetheart to be tortured, is that she didn’t learn her lesson after bringing a fatherless kid into the world, as far as choosing better men, and being exceedingly careful who she chose as a replacement father to the sperm donor. I learned my lesson, and no longer trust men. And that’s why I’m still single, and my kid’s 5. You wanna bring a fatherless/motherless kid in this world, you’d better be exceedingly cautious who replaces the egg/sperm donor.

 

[Freyja]

I am too. It was just that awful 'do! I got stuck.

This baby killing shitstain looks like someone gave him a swirly in the Burger King toilet! I say string him and the egg donor up publicly.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 23-year-old mother whose live-in boyfriend is accused of abusing her and killing her 5-year-old son now faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence herself. Prosecutors have charged Haile Lewis with felony child neglect, alleging she should have sought help before 32-year-old Brice Bainum killed her son, who authorities have not named since his March 2 death.

Bainum is being held in the LaPorte County Jail on $1 million bond awaiting trial in LaPorte Superior Court 1 on charges of murder and Class A misdemeanor interference with reporting a crime. He's accused of torturing and beating the boy to death, then preventing the mother from calling 911 for an hour.

Lewis is also charged in LaPorte Superior Court 1.

According to prosecutors, Bainum was Lewis' live-in boyfriend, and she found the boy unresponsive on the floor of his bedroom on the morning of March 2 at Normandy Village Apartments.

Police said Lewis told them Bainum felt the boy was being disrespectful during dinner the night of March 1. She allegedly told police Bainum tied the boy to his chair and made him apologize before tipping the chair forward so the boy's chest was resting on the edge of the table.

Bainum is accused of repeatedly pouring cold water on the boy's head and back for the next hour. Prosecutors blame Lewis because she did not intervene, as she said Bainum ordered her to sit. Prosecutors argue in court filings that Lewis should have intervened when Bainum left the room to get more cold water, but she said she was afraid.

Bainum is further accused of making the boy take a 15-minute cold shower and keep apologizing throughout for his perceived disrespect. Police said Lewis told them Bainum had used the shower punishment before.

Lewis allegedly told police she entered the bathroom and saw the boy crying and looking scared and like he had been hit. She said she told Bainum not to hit her son, but he reacted angrily to her, saying the boy had bit his arm.

After the shower, Lewis told police, she fell asleep briefly in the living room and woke up to the boy kneeling on the floor by the front door with Baimun again pouring cold water on her son, who was shivering. At one point, she said, Bainum made her fill up the bottle and pour water on her son, and he later opened the door to allow cold air from outside on the shivering boy, according to police.

Lewis also allegedly told police Bainum then ordered her son to go to his room, but he hit him hard in the back of the head as the boy walked away.

Police said Lewis also told investigators she was later in the bathroom when she heard a “thump,” but she was not sure if the noise came from her son’s bedroom or if Bainum was in the room with the child, according to police.

Police reported interviewing a neighbor who lived in the apartment above Lewis, Bainum and the boy, with the neighbor allegedly telling police she heard a faucet running and the voice of a “little boy” saying, “No, please stop. I will be a good boy.”

Police said Lewis told them she found the boy unresponsive after going into his bedroom to check on him and went to call 911, but Bainum grabbed the phone out of her hand.

More than one hour passed before he allowed her to call for help, according to court documents.

According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, the boy’s cause of death was ruled a homicide caused by multiple injuries, including bleeding on the brain due to assault.

The autopsy also found contusions on the child’s scalp from multiple impacts on the head, along with bruises and abrasions on his upper and lower extremities, court documents showed.

Lewis told police Brainum also sometimes gave the child hot sauce and cayenne pepper from a spoon when he cried and became jealous whenever she showed too much affection toward her son.

She also described him as abusive in their relationship together and accused him of isolating her from her family, police said. She allegedly told police she didn't seek help for her son because she was afraid of Bainum.

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I have no sympathy for this woman she could have relinquished her right to the boy and rod Brice's dick to her heart's content.

The fact that she could take a nap after her son was tortured makes her just as guilty as her boyfriend.

 

[Victoria]

Brice needs a couple of The General's All Natural Dead Red Sauce shoved up his anal cavity with a string tied to the firing-pens to be pulled at will.

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[runninfawn]

if an abused partner stays with abuser then it is their choice but to let your child be abused because you are "afraid" to do something about it is like saying "abuse him/her that way you aren't abusing me" ... i don't know how any parent can justify letting their children be abused and staying in that situation.... i did and still would "face-off" do anyone abusing a child and in my case it was a man and much bigger than me and i cornered him and told him i was living and would contact c.p.s asap and i did.... and abusers abuse only because they can and usually are cowards when confronted by someone that stands up to them...

 

[Kitsune Faye]

if an abused partner stays with abuser then it is their choice but to let your child be abused because you are "afraid" to do something about it is like saying "abuse him/her that way you aren't abusing me" ... i don't know how any parent can justify letting their children be abused and staying in that situation.... i did and still would "face-off" do anyone abusing a child and in my case it was a man and much bigger than me and i cornered him and told him i was living and would contact c.p.s asap and i did.... and abusers abuse only because they can and usually are cowards when confronted by someone that stands up to them...

Exactly. When that asshole ex beat and choked me in front of bubs in the middle of December, it took all the restraint I had to not kill him. I still want to. But that’s because I’m a real mother, because he’s FUCKN gone.

 

[HijabiGirl]

I am not sure I could restrain myself from taking a baseball bat to this asshole's head while he slept if he touched my kid(s) like this. But to read the mother also poured cold water over this shivering child under the abuser's direction....I have no words.