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Sentenced: 7YO Girl Found Dead In NYC Apartment With Head, Body Injuries

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A 7-year-old girl was found dead with head and body injuries inside a Bronx apartment Tuesday — and law-enforcement sources said cops had been called to the home six times in two years for suspected abuse.

The child, whose name was not released, was discovered in an apartment in the Mitchel Houses in the morning and rushed to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved, according to police.

Cops said they saw trauma on the little girl’s head and body.

Law-enforcement sources said the girl’s mother told cops the child fell around 5 a.m., hitting her head on a desk. Three hours later, the child allegedly started vomiting and passed out, according to sources.

Police had been repeatedly called to the home between May 2018 and March 2020 for suspected abuse of the girl, sources said. The outcome of the calls was unclear.

No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.
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7-year-old girl found dead in NYC apartment with head, body injuries

A 7-year-old child was found dead with injuries to the head and body inside the Mitchel Houses on Alexander Avenue in the Bronx on Tuesday, cops said.
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Police had been repeatedly called to the home between May 2018 and March 2020 for suspected abuse of the girl, sources said. The outcome of the calls was unclear.

A timespan just shy of two years? Well as long as there wasn't any consensus that someone needed to get a fire under their ass to potentially save the life of a clearly endangered child ...

When I was removed from the home of my abuser a social worker took me into the bathroom and asked me to strip down to my underware. That was it, immediate removal.

I never learned who made a call.
 
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My oldest was a very early riser, every morning, "wake up, mama, it's light time" between 5 and 6. And no, he would not go back to bed, if he said he would, then I was suspicious about what he really was doing.
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I had two of those and both have ADHD .. it ONLY took once of finding the aftermath of not getting up with them to learn my lesson.. coffee was my best friend ♥️
 
My husband, an attorney, was telling me about this case this morning, and I recognized it as being on DD...He does research and writes briefs etc for the guy who is the lawyer (court appointed) for the little girl's mother. We went to each other's weddings. Everyone is totally upset, my husband's colleague said "we sent that girl to her death". But I do believe the kid was up at 5am... that's probably why the 17 year old half brother punched her in the first place.
 
The grandmother of the 7-year-old girl found dead in her Bronx apartment tirelessly fought for years to keep custody of the child — whose tragic death was ruled a homicide on Thursday.

But little Julissia Batties was eventually returned to her mom — not long before her lifeless, broken body, with evidence of trauma all over, was discovered Tuesday morning in NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses.

“I begged them not to give Julissia back to her mother because when she got mad at my son, she’d take it out on my granddaughter,” Yolanda Davis, the girl’s paternal grandmother, told The Post Thursday.

“If she was with me, we’d never be here without her. She’d still be alive.”

Davis said the city Medical Examiner’s Office called her Thursday with the homicide ruling — and added that Julissia was found with severe abdominal injuries. Law enforcement sources confirmed her death was ruled a homicide.

Not long after she was born in April 2014, Julissia was removed from her mom Navasia Jones’ care, though a family court judge then granted the mom custody, court records show.

The Administration for Children’s Services appealed the decision, arguing Julissia was in “imminent danger of becoming impaired” due to failure by her parents to “exercise a minimum degree of care,” according to the records.

State appellate court judges in 2015 ruled in favor of ACS, finding that though the mom had completed parenting and anger management programs, she “was still prone to unpredictable emotional outbursts” and “was easily provoked and agitated.”

The mom also had four older children removed from her custody a year before Julissia was born, the court documents papers.

The court said that until the mom was able to “successfully address and acknowledge the circumstances” that led to her other children being taken away, “we cannot agree” that returning Julissia, “even with the safeguards imposed by the family court, would not present an imminent risk to [her] life or health.”

Davis said she raised Julissia for most of the girl’s short life until March 2019, when the child went to visit her mom for the weekend — and never came back.

ACS decided to return Julissia to her mom permanently, the grandmother said. Sources told The Post on Wednesday that her mom was granted custody in June, though the circumstances around that decision aren’t clear.

Davis, of Brooklyn, whose son is Julissia’s father, said she “begged” ACS not to take her granddaughter away from her.

“They should have listened to me,” the distraught woman said. “She was better off with me.”


Police had been called to the home at least six times between May 2018 and March 2020 for suspected abuse of the girl, sources said.

The mother, who suffers from bipolar disorder, has eight previous arrests, including two for menacing, sources said. The other six are sealed.
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The child’s 17-year-old brother later admitted during questioning that he had punched his sister eight times in the face when their mother went to the store around 5 a.m. — though the blows were not what ultimately killed her, sources said.

Hours later, the girl started throwing up and passed out, prompting her mom to call 911. Julissia was rushed to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved.

No criminal charges have been filed and no one is in custody.
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Death of 7-year-old Bronx girl ruled a homicide as grandmother recalls custody battle

The grandmother of the 7-year-old girl found dead in her Bronx apartment tirelessly fought for years to keep custody of the child, who was taken away from her mom’s care shortly after birth.
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The last call came in March 2020, sources said.

In one of the assaults, the teen told cops his mom lied to the Administration for Children’s Services when they showed up at their home and questioned the 7-year-old’s black eye, sources said.

The mom allegedly told officials with the agency that a younger sibling hit the girl with a toy gun by accident, according to sources.

The mother denied knowing of her 17-year-old son attacking his younger sister, the sources said.

“Those kids shouldn’t have been living in that house,” a high-ranking police source railed on Wednesday.
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Teen brother assaulted 7-year-old girl before her death, sources say

The teen brother of the slain 7-year-old in the Bronx allegedly admitted that he assaulted his sister before she was found dead in their apartment, police sources said.
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OMIGAWD, FUUUUUUUUCK you, ACS. You fuckin bust my balls, and make me go into preventative services for parenting skills because I have ASD and CPTSD. I have no older kids nor a history with you, and left an abusive relationship while pregnant permanently, save for a case when my mom whacked me with a plastic coat hanger when I was 9, but you couldn't get this little girl away from her egg donor and brother? FUUUUUUUUCK you, ACS. Disability doesn't mean unfit. Y'all sent a fucking caseworker to my house from the time Jacob was born until he was 9 months old. And continued to harass me while I moved in July, and for 2 weeks after I moved. I already chewed out NY Presbyterian-Columbia for calling ACS to begin with. I'm sorry I ranted; I had to get that off my chest. ACS was in my business from the time Jacob was born up until he was 9 months old, because I have a disability. Yet kids like Julissia windup dead due to their inaction. If anything, you should've went after my son's donor after he was released from Riker's; he's unfit due to his track record. I wouldn't be surprised you fucked with me since you couldn't get to him. Oh, ACS, suuuuuuuuck mah 15-inch diiiiiiiiiiiiiick and choke.
 
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Julissia Batties grew up in a blur of city agencies, social workers, judges and case workers. Her file was literally as old as she was, created at birth because of concerns that her older siblings had been abused. Officials decided where she lived and with whom, checking that she was being fed, clothed and schooled. They received a call about her welfare in the last week of her life. It’s unclear whether the call, about the black eye, was investigated before her death, an outcome none of those guardians could foresee.

More than two weeks later, charges have not been filed in Julissia’s death. The medical examiner’s office concluded that she died of blunt trauma to the abdomen. Her 17-year-old half brother has said he hit her repeatedly for eating his snacks in the hours before she died, on Aug. 10, law enforcement officials said. But he has not been charged with a crime. Her mother told a neighbor Julissia had fallen and hit her head.

Several investigations are underway to determine whether something was missed, any warning signs overlooked. Neighbors said they had feared for Julissia’s safety, noticing that sometimes she was bruised or out by herself. Were those claims examined? At times, she could become visibly anxious, even angry, when the subject of being with her mother came up. Was that the manner of a precocious child, or was she afraid?

The questions call attention to a fragile system that has been restructured to reunite families. City agencies have long been criticized for being too quick to remove children from homes for the flimsiest of reasons. In recent years, family court judges and the city’s Administration for Children’s Services have sought to reunite foster children with their birth families when appropriate, and to streamline the steps involved in doing so.

That was the stated course for Julissia as early as 2016, when a judge ruled that when the agency felt it was appropriate, the girl should be sent to live with her mother in a trial discharge.

The agency will face questions about whether that was the correct strategy. “The death of 7-year-old Julissia is a terrible tragedy, and we mourn her loss,” a spokesperson for ACS said in a statement. “We are conducting an intensive review of this case to ensure that we are doing everything possible to keep children safe and families supported.”

The child welfare agency had little reason to keep Julissia and her mother, Navasia Jones, separated by last year: Her mother had completed therapy and parenting classes, she had regained custody of one of her other children, and a younger half brother of Julissia’s who had never been removed from her care lived with her as well.

Julissia’s mother seemed to be making substantial progress, convincing the authorities that there was little risk in her regaining custody of the girl, said Gladys Carrión, a former children’s services commissioner.

“They got it wrong,” she said, “because this child died, that’s the bottom line.”

Carrión said there was no one decision that could explain what had happened: “There were lots of people involved and, obviously, there was a consensus at some point and everybody said, ‘OK, we think the mom is ready, she could have this child.’ ”

Julissia was born April 26, 2014, to Jones and Julius Batties, but she was immediately removed from their custody by the child welfare agency, court records show. Her safety, the agency found, was being endangered by her parents’ failure to provide a “minimum degree of care.” A judge ordered that Batties be referred to domestic violence counseling.

It was not the first sign of trouble in Jones’ home. She had already lost custody of her five other children after they were found with signs of physical abuse, according to a later report.

When Julissia was 6 days old, she was placed in the care of her paternal grandmother, Yolanda Davis, at Davis’ apartment in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Jones was allowed a first visit. She held her infant daughter and refused to give her back, prompting Davis to call the police, according to court records. Jones was not allowed to return.

Snapshots in the girl’s bedroom at Davis’ home mark the passing years, from when she lay in a bassinet wearing a pink onesie to a preschool graduation portrait with her in a red cap and gown.

“I took really good care of my granddaughter, I took very good care of her,” Davis said. “Whatever she wanted to do that made her day better, I did it.”

The two would walk together to Julissia’s school, Public School 375. “We’d run and she’d say, ‘I’m going to beat you grandma! I’m going to beat you! Don’t cheat!’ ” Davis said. “And she’d start laughing.”

Julissia’s parents sought inroads into her life. Batties was allowed to visit her on weekends at certain points, on the condition that Jones, her mother, not be present. Jones worked to reclaim her rights to see and gain custody of Julissia and her children, court records indicate, completing required parenting classes and agreeing to anger management.

Nonetheless, judges ruled that she was “prone to unpredictable emotional outbursts.” Once, court records show, she arrived at a child welfare office and “was kicking down doors” looking for a case worker.

She had struggled through an unstable childhood of her own. She was raised by her grandmother, said Kathy Ferguson, a friend and former neighbor. By the time Jones was a teenager, she had run away, and wound up living in a duplex with a friend in Brooklyn. Soon, she was dating the friend’s uncle, who was 25 years older, Ferguson said.

“Someone’s giving you a home, a warm meal and a bed,” Ferguson said. “This is what girls do when they don’t have anything else.”

Jones and the older man had a son, the first of her six children — the one who, 17 years later, would tell the police he punched Julissia on the last day of her life. Things were volatile in the home, and the police were often there.

“She came from a messed up family, and raised her kids in the same type of environment that she grew up in,” Ferguson said, adding that she had once accompanied Jones to therapy, only to see her pick a fight with the therapist.

Jones could be a doting mother, Ferguson said, and as long as her children were well behaved, she bought them whatever they wanted.

“She loves her kids, but that mind of hers flicks off and on,” Ferguson said. “I cannot imagine living in her household as a kid.”

Over the years, Jones was referred for mental health services, court records indicate. She attended parenting classes — some more than once — court hearings and meetings at the foster agency handling Julissia’s case, said Natasha Ferguson, Kathy’s daughter.

“It was frustrating for her,” Natasha Ferguson, 32, said. “Some things she didn’t want to do. What she had to do, she did it.”

For Julissia, her mother’s appearances in her life and her parents’ hostile relationship were extremely disruptive, reaching a peak in 2017.

That year, when she was 3, she was removed from her grandmother’s care by the child welfare agency and placed in foster care because of the “continuation of domestic violence issues” between her parents. The agency said that her father had violated his visitation rights by coming to see her without supervision at Davis’ home, and that he had threatened to harm Jones and unnamed “children” during a dispute with her.

In a handwritten plea to the agency, Davis, who was accused only of letting her son visit his daughter at her home, asked that the girl be returned to her care. Later that year, a judge ordered Julissia returned, saying that the child welfare agency had overstepped and that removing the girl from her grandmother’s home “was not correct.”

By then, Jones was being allowed to visit her children. Family court documents a year earlier stated that she “expresses that she wants her children returned to her care.” The feeling does not appear to have been mutual. When she was 5, Julissia began treatment at a mental health clinic in Crown Heights. Notes from her sessions there offer a window into her relationship with her mother.

“As she colored, she screamed ‘no stop’ and appeared distraught and anxious,” a social worker wrote in 2019, adding that she becomes “anxious when mom is mentioned in session. She displays anger toward Grandma when Grandma mentions a visit with mom.”

In January 2020, Julissia and Jones were scheduled for a visit at the clinic. The girl was visibly nervous and rigid as she waited for her mother, a supervisor wrote, but when it became clear Jones would not be coming, Julissia instantly relaxed and began to talk more.

“There is quite a bit of trauma” that Julissia experiences “each time contact is made with her biological mother,” the supervisor wrote.

Given that background, it might appear surprising that Julissia was sent to live with her mother some months later.

But rather than a hasty change in plans, court records suggest, the outcome was long in the making, the charted course for a system that prefers, when deemed safe, that children live with their parents. For Julissia, what began as a trial discharge to Jones’ home last year became final this year.

Around April 2020, with the city in the grip of the pandemic, Julissia began settling into her mother’s apartment on the 10th floor of a building in the Mitchel Houses complex in the Bronx. Neighbors described her as a shy, quiet girl who loved Minnie Mouse and unicorns.

That seemed to change over the summer, with neighbors describing signs of trouble. Julissia came and went on her own, riding alone in the elevator and taking solo trips to the bodega. Several neighbors said they heard Jones shouting almost constantly from behind her apartment door.

“I’d hear her yelling at the kids all the time,” said Michael Roberts, a neighbor who said he called both the police and child welfare official about the family. “She would curse at them; she was frustrated for no reason, always angry. It made no sense to walk out of your house and be that angry.”

Another neighbor, Mina Cruz, said she called the child welfare agency on July 8 and July 12 to report seeing Julissia waiting for an elevator alone and walking the street on errands by herself.

The state Office of Children and Family Services, which fields child-abuse calls and passes them on to local authorities, is not legally allowed to confirm or discuss the confidential complaints it receives. In a statement, however, it said it was “actively and carefully reviewing all information and actions taken by the New York City Administration for Children’s Services in response to this tragic case.”

It is unclear whether the authorities followed up on the neighbors’ calls. Generally, a case worker is supposed to contact a child’s family within 24 hours of getting a complaint that is deemed credible; neighbors would not necessarily be told of such a visit.

Davis, Julissia’s grandmother, filed for visitation rights last year. A hearing was scheduled for this fall. But on July 31, she received a series of text messages from Julissia’s phone that alarmed her and made her question who was sending them.

“Grandma it’s me Julissia,” the texts began. “I’m leaving today,” she continued. “My mom letting me live with her brother.”

Davis asked: Where?

“Texas,” came the reply. “She said I’m not coming back.”

A child’s fantasy, an adult’s hoax or something else? The answer is unclear, and the trip never happened.

A week later on Aug. 6, Roberts’ girlfriend, Jasmine Jones, told him she had seen the girl with a swollen black eye.

Jasmine Jones said she had asked Julissia who hit her. “She said her mother did it to her,” she said.

She said she called the child welfare agency to report what she had seen. Two days later, Roberts saw Julissia in the elevator with her mother. The girl was wearing sunglasses.

On Aug. 10, a Tuesday, neighbors said they awoke to the sound of Julissia’s mother screaming — not in anger, but in fear.

“She knocked on the door,” said Janine Raveneau, 51, who lives down the hall. “She was yelling, ‘Help! Help! My daughter stopped breathing!’ ”

“I ran into the apartment,” Raveneau added. “The little girl was laying down in her room, halfway. Her older brother was holding her up.”

Julissia was naked and limp in her older brother’s arms. Navasia Jones told Raveneau it was because she had urinated on her clothes, Raveneau recalled. The mother continued: “ ‘She woke me up screaming my name. I went to her and asked if she was all right, and she said her stomach hurt.’ ”

The girl had fallen and hit her head on a table, Raveneau recalled Navasia Jones saying.

Navasia Jones called 911 and handed the phone to Raveneau.

“Can you put your hand on her stomach?” the dispatcher asked.

Raveneau did.

“He said, ‘Did your hand move?’ ” she said. “I said, ‘No.’ ”

News of Julissia’s death swept through the hall, where neighbors made a memorial of stuffed animals and candles, and out of the building to the bodega. There, Slade, the janitor, remembered her solitary visits, her order for the cheeseburger and the bagel with cream cheese and jelly, and his fleeting urge to take her to the police.

“I started crying,” Slade said. “That was my fault. I should have took her.”
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At 6 Days Old, She Went Into Foster Care. At 7 Years Old, She Was Dead.

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RavagesTheCabbages said:
The true story of her death is only known to those living in the house. I wonder if the teenage boy who used her as a punching bag will be held accountable.
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I hope he is. I’m also curious about how it didn’t contribute to the cause of death. Who hit her in the abdomen? Was it all the brother or were he and mom tag teaming? Either way the brother is 17, not ten. Those are adult punches and deserve an adult sentence
 
She still can’t rest in peace.

More than a month after little Julissia Batties was found dead in her mother’s Bronx apartment, her body is still sitting in the city morgue as her parents argue over funeral arrangements, The Post has learned.

The abused 7-year-old girl was the subject of a heated custody battle for nearly all of her life and the fight is continuing even after her tragic death — with her mom wanting to have her cremated and her dad hoping she can be buried, according to court papers.

Mom Navasia Jones, who had custody of Julissia when the girl died, filed a petition on Friday asking a judge to grant her control over funeral arrangements and the “disposition” of the girl’s body.

Jones wants to have her daughter cremated so she “will always have something to remember [Julissia] by,” the filing in Bronx Supreme Court states.

But dad Julius Batties — whose mother Yolanda Davis tried in vain for years to gain custody of her granddaughter — wants Julissia to be buried in the same New Jersey cemetery as his father.

“I’m ready to lay my baby to rest so she can be at peace,” Batties told The Post on Tuesday.


Davis agreed, “I just want to put her to rest.”

“I never knew we would have to fight for her body,” the distraught grandmother said. “I thought we’d bury the baby and that’s it.”


Julissia’s lifeless body, with evidence of trauma all over, was discovered Aug. 10 in Jones’ apartment at NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses. Autopsy results showed the girl died of “blunt force abdominal trauma,” and the NYPD has ruled the case a homicide.


Both Julissia’s mother and her 17-year-old half-brother were questioned by detectives, law-enforcement sources said. But no arrests have been made as the investigation continues.

There was a known history of violence in the child’s home, and an alleged admission from the half-brother that he punched Julissia eight times in the face the day she died — though it was later determined those blows were not what ultimately killed her, sources have said.

The alleged assault happened while their mom took a 5 a.m. trip to the store, and hours later, Julissia, who was due to begin second-grade this month, began throwing up, prompting Jones to call 911. Jones claimed her daughter had fallen and hit her head on a desk, according to the sources. The girl was brought to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved.

In the weeks since Julissia’s death, Jones, 35, and Batties, 37, each made arrangements with separate funeral homes in regards to their daughter’s final resting place, according to the court documents.


Because of that, the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said that it could not release Julissia’s body until the parents either came to an agreement or let the court decide. On Aug. 26, OCME said it had placed a “hold” on Julissia’s body until a resolution is reached, the filing states.

But the parents couldn’t come to an agreement, with Batties saying he “would never agree” to have his daughter cremated.


The dad said he had already picked out a casket in one of his little girl’s favorite color — pink — and arranged for a horse-drawn carriage at the funeral, to make sure she “goes out like a princess.”


“Because she was a princess,” he said.

A spokesperson for OCME said that disputes among claimants must be decided by a court, according to the state’s public health laws. “Consistent with the law, OCME continues to hold the remains of the decedent while the Court decides the issue.”
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Julius Batties, father of Julissa Batties, with his mother Yolanda Davis at their Brooklyn home.
 
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Exclusive | Abused girl found dead in NYC apartment still in morgue a month later

More than a month after 7-year-old Julissia Batties was found dead in her mother’s Bronx apartment, her body is still sitting in the city morgue as her parents argue over funeral arrangements…
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Julius Batties, father of Julissa Batties, with his mother Yolanda Davis at their Brooklyn home.
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I’m shocked that eight punches to a child’s face from an adult male didn’t kill without the abdominal trauma. This case is a travesty and that brother deserves to rot. why do we let people off easily just because the victim somehow didn’t succumb their violence?
 
The abused 7-year-old girl killed in her Bronx home over the summer will finally be laid to rest — now that her squabbling parents have settled their court battle over her remains, according to court papers filed Wednesday.

Julius Batties, the father of little Julissia Batties, won the right to claim the remains of his “princess” from the city morgue, where she has been kept since her tragic death inside her mom’s apartment in NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses on Aug. 10.

Mom Navasia Jones, 35, had filed a petition in Bronx Supreme Court in September asking a judge to grant her control over funeral arrangements, saying she wanted to cremate her daughter so she “will always have something to remember [her] by.”

But the distraught dad, 37, said that he wanted Julissia buried, telling The Post last month that he would “never agree” to have her cremated.

In court papers, Batties also argued that it was unseemly for Jones to be granted control over their daughter’s final resting place — given that the girl was in her care when she died.

“Even if she did not inflict the final blow she did not protect her when she could have,” Batties wrote in an affidavit filed earlier this month and obtained by The Post.

His attorney also claimed in a filing that Jones “is one of two suspects directly or indirectly responsible for her being killed.”

Nether Batties’ or Jones’ attorneys returned multiple requests for comment. No criminal charges have been filed against Jones — or anyone else in the case which remains under investigation.

Julissia’s body had evidence of trauma all over when she was discovered inside the apartment, and the death has been ruled a homicide from “blunt force abdominal trauma.”

Both the girl’s mother and her 17-year-old half-brother were questioned by detectives, law-enforcement sources said.

There was a known history of violence in the child’s home, and an alleged admission from the half-brother that he punched Julissia eight times in the face the day she died — though it was later determined those blows were not what ultimately killed her, sources have said.

Batties wrote in his affidavit that “it is my understanding that at some point there will be an arrest, and that will help at least provide me some closure as to who is responsible for her death.”

The agreement that he and Julissia’s mom came to, which was signed by a judge late last week, allows him to bury his daughter, while giving Jones a separate viewing time at a funeral home in Brooklyn.

Prior to her tragic death and the ensuing fight over her remains, Julissia had been the subject of a heated custody battle, with her paternal grandmother Yolanda Davis fighting in vain for years for the right to care for her.

“We need to bury my granddaughter,” Davis told The Post on Wednesday. “I don’t want her in the morgue any longer.”

“Let her little soul rest in peace now,” she said.
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Abused girl found dead in NYC over the summer to finally be laid to rest after parental fight over remains

Julius Batties, the father of little Julissia Batties, won the right to claim the remains of his “princess” from the city morgue, where she has been kept since her tragic death.
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You put people in the ground and most are forgotten quite quickly or visited every few years .. with the population it's a waste of space .. my dad and son are cremated as is my uncle and they sit on my entertain center so that I can speak to them often .. my dad is in a pirates treasure box because he was almost always on an adventure and I am sure he's raising a little prankish fun in the afterlife..
 
“Grandma, call the police!”

Julissia Batties was crying hysterically and begging her grandmother not to send her for a court-ordered weekend visit with her mom, Navasia Jones.
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The Bronx girl, who was killed at age 7 under mysterious circumstances in Jones’ apartment last August, sobs in a heart-breaking audio recording obtained by The Post.
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“I don’t want to go with mommy,” Julissia repeatedly told her grandma Yolanda Davis, who was also her foster parent.

Asked in another recording what the police could do, the doomed girl said simply: “Help me out.”
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Despite her pleas, Julissia was sent to visit her mother, who lost custody of the girl at birth, along with four sons, due to alleged negligence and physical abuse.
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Against objections by her grandmother and court-appointed lawyer, the city Administration for Children’s Services last June 21 finally returned Julissia to live with her mother, without supervision, for the first time.

Less than two months later, on Aug. 10, Julissia was dead.
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The mother claimed the little girl fell and hit her head on a desk.
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Her eldest son, 17, told cops he punched his half-sister eight times in the face, though officials decided those blows did not kill her. Hours later, Julissia started throwing up and passed out. Her mom called 911. The brutally-injured girl was rushed to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved.

The cause of death, the city Medical Examiner found, was “blunt force abdominal trauma.”
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The ME ruled it a homicide, but nearly nine months later, the NYPD has made no arrest. “The investigation is ongoing,” a spokesperson said Friday.
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Throughout her short life, Julissia was at the center of a bitter tug-of-war between her estranged parents, and a complex child-welfare case that ended in tragic misjudgment.

Julissia was born at Kings County Hospital into the care of ACS, the agency charged with protecting the city’s most vulnerable children, but with a history marred by a series of failures resulting in horrific deaths.

A court-ordered report cited “parental drug and alcohol abuse,” and found domestic violence between Julissia’s mom and the father of three of her sons from a prior relationship. Her children had cuts, bruises and welts on their bodies, a city-appointed social worker reported. The mom “blew smoke in the children’s face,” knowing that one son suffered from asthma, records show.

ACS placed Julissia in the care of her paternal grandmother, who would become her foster parent for the next three years – and never give up the fight to protect her.

In 2017, when Julissia was 3, ACS abruptly removed the toddler from Davis’ custody after it was reported that she let her son enter the home to visit his daughter – against court and ACS orders. Davis asked for a hearing by the state Office of Children and Family Services, which found the removal “incorrect” and called for a re-evaluation.

ACS returned Julissia to Davis in 2018, allowing supervised visits with her parents at an agency office. In psychological reports in 2019 and early 2020, therapists observed that Julissia was sad and withdrawn with her mother, but at ease with her dad.

“I don’t want to go to mom,” the girl said during a therapy session, a report says.

The alarming observations did not stop ACS from expanding the mother’s visitation with Julissia to weekends at her apartment in NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses.

Julissia soon grew so anxious and distraught before the visits that Davis began recording her — and gave the tapes to police after she died.

In one case, Julissia wailed unconsolably. Davis asked her, “Why you crying, punky? You have to see Mommy.” Julissia cried, “Noooo!”

“Why? Why happened?” Davis asked.

“I don’t wanna go,” Julissia bawled, not giving a reason.

Another time, Davis asked Julissia why she seemed so nervous. “It’s three days,” Julissia said, referring to the time she would spend with her mother.

On one recording, Julissia confided that her three older brothers “keep fighting” and beat up a younger sibling.

“They make him bleed,” she said.

“What do they do?” Davis asked. “Something bad,” the girl replied.

When Julissia told her grandma to “call the police,” Davis was surprised.

“What am I calling the police for?” she asked. “Because I don’t want to go with mommy,” Julissia cried.

Davis reported then-5-year-old Julissia’s outbursts to SCO Family of Services, the ACS-contracted agency overseeing her foster care. “A child shouldn’t feel that way about her mom. Something ain’t right,” the grandma told a caseworker in a recorded phone call.

The caseworker insisted she had brought up complaints about Jones to supervisors — including that Jones called Julissia “bitch” to her face — but they were discounted: “They probably want to close the case.”

Davis protested, “The child is scared to death of her!”

On April 24, 2020, Davis sent Julissa for a weekend visit — and never saw her again. ACS allowed the girl to stay with Jones due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Soon after, ACS placed Julissia with her mother on a “trial discharge.” The agency told Davis it was going well. But the girl’s court-appointed lawyer would not consent to the arrangement, saying in an email that Julissia “consistently” expressed a desire to live with her grandmother. She told the lawyer she liked visiting her mother only because she got to play with her baby brother, Jones’ sixth child.

Meanwhile, Davis’ dealings with ACS grew increasingly strained as the frustrated grandmother planned to go back to court to fight for visitation with Julissia.

Shortly before her death, neighbors at Mitchel Houses spotted Julissia wearing sunglasses, apparently to hide a black eye. When ACS showed up to investigate the injury, Jones allegedly told officials that a younger brother hit the girl with a toy gun by accident.

“In my spirit, I felt like something was wrong with the baby,” Davis told The Post, blaming ACS for ignoring the red flags.

“There are other parents going through the same thing. That agency needs to be investigated. They treated me like trash. They didn’t do their job.”

Julissia’s father is also bitter. “ACS definitely failed me and my daughter. It’s horrible. You’ve got so many people who have to explain themselves now.”

Batties is incredulous that no one has been arrested after nine months. “All I hear is that they’re working on it. It’s the same thing I’ve been hearing since the beginning,” he said.

As if to warn whoever harmed Julissia, someone scribbled on Jones’ now-padlocked apartment door, ”God will always (prevail). No (one) gets away with murder.”

Jones could not be reached for comment.

ACS officials said the agency “conducted a comprehensive review” of its foster-care practices in Julissia’s case, and required the contractor, SCO, to “immediately implement corrective actions.” It would not specify the actions.

The agency said it also reviewed other cases in which children were in the process of leaving foster care to return to parents or guardians, and boosted training of its investigators.

“The death of Julissia was a terrible tragedy,” a spokeswoman said. “We take every opportunity to continuously review our work and identify opportunities for strengthening our policies and practices.”
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