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FORT MYERS — It has been 16 months since a 3-year-old Lee County boy — only recently returned to his mother from foster care — died of a severe beating.
This week, the accused killer, Kashon Scott, will stand trial on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.
The trial is set to start Tuesday, said Samantha Syoen, spokeswoman for the State Attorney’s Office.
The boy, Zahid Jones Jr., was the youngest of three children of Nicole Brewington, 33.
All of Brewington’s children had been taken from her by the Florida Department of Children and Families, and as a condition of their return to her care in April 2007, a judge had ordered her to keep her boyfriend, Scott, out of her Cape Coral home.
DCF documents show that after Zahid died, officials concluded that Scott had been staying with the family, that he had abused all three children on numerous occasions, and that their mother did not intervene.
Documents the child protection agency released after Zahid’s death also showed that during the months leading up to Zahid’s death, his grandmother had been trying very hard to report allegations of abuse and to convince authorities of the danger her grandson was in.
On May 29, 2007, Zahid died of blunt force trauma to the abdomen, according to court documents, and Scott was arrested as a suspect in the boy’s death.
Paramedics had found Zahid covered in bruises and unresponsive that morning, and he died about an hour later at a Cape Coral hospital.
Brewington, 33, was also arrested, and she is facing a charge of aggravated manslaughter.
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Perpetrator Relationships of Child Fatalities, 2006 - http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pu...
#1 Posted by POC on August 29, 2008 at 11:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This story made me sick when I first heard it. Where was DCF? Are they not required to do regular home visits when children are returned to the home?
"his grandmother had been trying very hard to report allegations of abuse and to convince authorities of the danger her grandson was in."
Is DCF or the social worker in this case going to be held accountable??
This woman should of never been given her children back, but they take a parenting class for a few months and pass a drug test and that qualifies them to be a mother again.
#2 Posted by sock_puppet on August 30, 2008 at 8:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Feed him to the pit bulls
#3 Posted by ernstruntz on August 30, 2008 at 9:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WHAT A SICK SICK MAN... I WILL PRAY FOR HIS SOUL... AND THE BOY'S MOTHER TOO!! WHAT KIND OF MOTHER DOES NOT INTERVINE AND COME TO THE RESCUE OF A CHILD THAT SHE BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD?
#4 Posted by sara231 on August 30, 2008 at 9:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I would really hate to think this guy is not guilty.
However, I found this disturbing:
Mother love is not universal. The idealization of women as natural loving mothers is a cultural belief that gets us into trouble. "We should detach from the idea of universal motherhood as natural and see it as a social response," Nancy Scheper-Hughes says. Women in jail reported that no-one believed them when they said they wanted to kill their children. "There's a collective denial even when mothers come right out and say "I really shouldn't be trusted with my kids."
Much more at:
http://www.aaanet.org/press/motherski...
#5 Posted by R_Popoff on August 30, 2008 at 12:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
R_Popoff,
You're absolutely right, there's a collective denial. The USDHHS link in #1 tells the true story. The media's consistent avoidance of telling that story stains the papers they write on with the blood of these children.
#6 Posted by POC on August 30, 2008 at 2:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Unfortuantely, the prosecutors go after the easy to vilify target.
I personally know of a case where a woman almost killed her daughter from persistent beatings.
The boyfriend then was prosecuted. No angel, but had zero interest in the woman's kids.
He spent a couple years in prison to spare the girl friend.
After which thia whole trailer trash bunch reunited and quickly moved to a different jurisdiction.
#7 Posted by R_Paret on August 30, 2008 at 2:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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