Crystal Garcia & Anfernee Watts Were ‘Unfit To Be Parents,’ Charged In 3-Week-Old Infants Death

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When Hollywood police rushed to resuscitate a 3-week-old boy who was nonresponsive in his playpen last year, it was already too late.

But each new story the little boy’s mother and father told authorities about his death was more elaborate than the last, police say.

On Wednesday, after a months-long investigation, the parents were arrested. Authorities say the mother smothered the 3-week-old to death, then formulated a fake story with the father to try to get away with it.


Crystal Garcia, 21, and Anfernee Watts, 25, are facing charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child, neglect of a child with great bodily harm, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, failure to report death, and giving false information to a law enforcement officer. As of Thursday, they both were detained at the Broward County Main Jail.

Latonya Watts, Anfernee’s mother, described the “two as immature and unfit to be parents,” a detective wrote.

During the early afternoon of Aug. 1, Hollywood police and fire rescue crews raced to the home shared by the parents and Garcia’s mother, after a 911 call reported that the 3-week-old was unresponsive, the arrest warrant read.

The baby was found in a small playpen with his mouth open and white foam inside. His lips were cracked, with dry blood on them, and he was wearing a dirty diaper. A disposable changing pad looked to have blood spotting on it in a nearby playpen used for storage, police said.

Life-saving measures were tried, but the infant was pronounced dead six minutes after paramedics arrived.

Police looked around the home and noticed the bathroom had a “strong smell of bleach,” with a window inside open and a curtain moved aside to let more air in. There was also a mason jar with a cleaning agent inside, a broom, a mop and disposable wipes in an empty garbage bin — all appearing to be used recently to clean, the warrant read.

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‘Unfit to be parents’: Mother, father charged in their 3-week-old son’s death

The 3-week-old’s parents, charged with his death, gave several conflicting stories to authorities, Hollywood police say.

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Latonya Watts thank you for not defending these two pieces of shit!

A 25-year-old father who was accused of covering up and causing his 3-week-old son’s death was fighting charges on Friday in Broward County.

Anfernee Watts, who also has a 2-year-old daughter, appeared in Broward bond court on Thursday, and a judge denied him bail.

Watts “admitted to fabricating a story to present to law enforcement, placing the deceased baby back into the playpen in an effort to make it appear as though the baby died in his sleep,” a police officer wrote, according to an arrest warrant.

Crystal Garcia was 20 years old when she gave birth to their son on July 11 at Memorial Regional Hospital, according to police.


A pediatrician reported the baby boy was in good health on July 28, according to the arrest warrant. The tragedy unfolded a few days later.

“She intentionally restrained the baby by tightly wrapping him in a blanket, securing a pacifier in his mouth, and strapping him into a car seat before placing him inside a bathtub and isolating him behind a closed door while loud music played,” and she “willfully ignored his distress and failed to check on him for several hours,” a detective wrote, according to the warrant.

Watts told police officers that he had attended a job interview when the baby died, but the alleged interviewee said that was false, according to the warrant.

The Broward Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the baby’s cause of death to be suffocation and the manner of death to be a homicide. The evidence also includes a video recorded by a Ring surveillance camera showing Garcia with a garbage bag before calling 911.

Watts’ mother contacted police to report that Garcia, 21, told her the baby died while pinned between the bed frame and the mattress, according to an arrest warrant.

Garcia left voicemails to police from Aug. 4 to Wednesday and admitted to lying and to report that she had “smothered” the baby, according to the arrest warrant.

“Crystal admitted she lied to the police out of fear of being arrested,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest warrant.

Garcia and Watts are each facing five charges: Obstruction of a criminal investigation, aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with great bodily harm, tampering with evidence, and willfully touching, removing, or disturbing a dead body, clothing, or surrounding items without authorization.

Watt’s mother has had custody of their 2-year-old daughter since she was about 5 months old after Garcia and the baby tested positive for THC at birth, according to the arrest warrant.

Broward father fights charges after arrest over baby’s death and cover up

A couple accused of their baby's death appeared in court on Thursday in Broward County. A judge denied them bond. They also have a 2-year-old child.

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Broward father fights charges after arrest over baby’s death and cover up

A couple accused of their baby's death appeared in court on Thursday in Broward County. A judge denied them bond. They also have a 2-year-old child.

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She is going to use PPD as a defense.