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Police in Louisiana have arrested Twyena Thomas, the mother of an 'extremely malnourished' two-year-old boy who was found dead. Thomas has been charged with second degree murder.

An autopsy revealed the toddler, who was called Chase, died due to 'blunt trauma and abuse'.

The toddler's arms and legs were covered with bruises. Many of the marks suggested that he had been tied up at some point.

'The child had multiple marks and bruising,' said Lt. Brian McGregor, spokesman for the Kenner Police Department. 'There's other things that we saw that lead us to believe there was abuse and neglect. '

Officers were called to Thomas' home after receiving reports of a two-year-old having 'difficulty breathing,' authorities said. By the time the emergency services had arrived, the boy was unresponsive and cold to the touch.

Paramedics tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

According to Nola.com, authorities noted he seemed 'extremely malnourished' and had bruising around both eyes.

Officers also witnessed bruising along the entire length of the boy's arms and legs.

The boy had 'ligature marks' on his left forearm which led investigators to believe the little boy may have been tied up at some point.

The youngster also had several scratches and marks on his back and buttocks.

Thomas admitted that she was the only one who looked after the boy and that she had hit him several times with a slipper as punishment.

She also told officers that she used a cloth-like material to restrain him when he was misbehaving.

Three other children, aged one, four and nine were also taken into care. Thomas is currently pregnant.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4945096/Mother-charged-neglected-two-year-old-boy-died.html

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Two-year-old Chase Thomas weighed a skeletal 15 pounds when East Jefferson General Hospital paramedic Rojelio Lopez found him lying on his back in a bed in his mother’s Kenner apartment.

He was covered from head to foot in bruises, scabs and scars, Lopez said.

He could tell the child wasn’t breathing and had suffered extreme malnutrition and dehydration, he said. Someone had starved the toddler, his body wasting away from full-cheeked cherub to skin and bones.

“He was basically just desiccated, like one of those Egyptian mummies — just dry and withered away,” Lopez testified Wednesday, the first day of the second-degree murder trial of Chase’s mother, Twyena Thomas.

Thomas, 29, is accused of killing her young son in what the Jefferson Parish coroner called the worst case of child abuse he had ever seen.

Although Chase was terribly malnourished, that wasn’t the toddler’s cause of death, Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney Matthew Whitworth said during opening statements in 24th Judicial District Court.

“What killed him was 15 separate and distinct blows to his head,” Whitworth told jurors.

An autopsy determined Chase died of multiple blunt force trauma to the head, torso, arms and legs, according to the Coroner’s Office. He had also suffered a brain bleed.

Prosecutors accused Thomas of tying up Chase and beating him on several occasions. The boy was covered with injuries, in several stages of healing.

There were only three areas on the toddler’s body that had did not have wounds: his toes, his genitals and his rectum, Whitworth told jurors.

“You will see the bruises. You will see the cruelty she imposed on her child,” he said.

In the months before his death, Thomas seemed to ignore a pediatrician’s diagnosis of failure to thrive, the medical terminology for malnutrition, according to prosecutors.

Defense attorney Marceline Bleich described Thomas as an overwhelmed mother of four who had been struggling to support her family with little to no help from her children's fathers. It was difficult to keep a job and a roof over their heads, Bleich said.

Thomas then realized she was pregnant with her fifth child.

“She falls into a bleak, terrible depression that she doesn’t get help for and she doesn’t come out of,” Bleich said.

She said jurors should consider all of the things occurring in Thomas’ life around the time of Chase’s death.

“She did not intend to kill her son. You’ll see a depressed woman, an overwhelmed woman, not a murderer,” Bleich said.
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FTA - “She did not intend to kill her son. You’ll see a depressed woman, an overwhelmed woman, not a murderer,” Bleich said.

Sorry bitch - She starved and beat that child over an extended period of time (yet when she's arrested she has a double chin that also doubles as a neck SMFH).
 
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A Jefferson Parish judge excoriated a Kenner mother, telling her she didn’t deserve a “scintilla of mercy,” before sentencing the woman to life in prison Monday for starving and beating her 2-year-old son to death, according to the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office.

Judge Danyelle Taylor of 24th Judicial District Court called Twyena Thomas, 29, a “hateful monster” who failed to love, protect and nurture Chase Thomas during his short life.

“Instead of being the object of your affection, he was the object of your cruelty, your rage, your anger, your torture and your torment,” Taylor said as she sentenced Thomas on the two-year anniversary of Chase’s death.

“I wish that I could require that the picture of Chase’s broken little body hang in your cell every morning … and there would be no escape from the evidence of your own cruelty,” Taylor said Monday.

Jurors viewed several heart-wrenching photos of Chase during the trial, including one taken by paramedic Rojelio Lopez after he’d carried Chase to an ambulance. Lopez was shocked by the toddler’s appearance.

“He was basically just desiccated, like one of those Egyptian mummies — just dry and withered away,” Lopez testified.

The judge ordered the punishment to be served without the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence.

Thomas also addressed the court during the hearing, saying that Chase “didn’t deserve that,” the District Attorney’s Office said.
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Judge Danyelle Taylor of 24th Judicial District Court called Twyena Thomas, 29, a “hateful monster” who failed to love, protect and nurture Chase Thomas during his short life.

“Instead of being the object of your affection, he was the object of your cruelty, your rage, your anger, your torture and your torment,” Taylor said as she sentenced Thomas on the two-year anniversary of Chase’s death.

“I wish that I could require that the picture of Chase’s broken little body hang in your cell every morning … and there would be no escape from the evidence of your own cruelty,” Taylor said Monday.

Girl crush on Judge Taylor.
 
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