A Michigan mother accused of torturing and murdering her 3-year-old son and then concealing the boy’s body in a freezer pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Friday, July 12.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
Per a settlement agreement, Azuradee France, 33, agreed to be sentenced to 35 to 60 years for the death of Chayse Allen, the Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney’s office confirmed to PEOPLE.
France’s other charges — first-degree child abuse, torture and concealing a death — will be dismissed at sentencing on July 29, per Wayne County prosecutors.
France told police that she kicked the boy in the chest when he wouldn’t eat, according to The Detroit News
. The next morning, she went to check on him and he was unresponsive. She told police she didn’t call 911 out of fear her other children would be taken from her by authorities, per theNews.
She then put the boy’s body in the freezer. His remains were found three months later after Child Protective Services workers were contacted by an unknown caller.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
Police officers went to the home and interviewed France. “It was determined that the 3-year-old child was deceased in his home in the basement and sadly found in a freezer,” Detroit Police Chief James White said at a press conference in June 2022 after France’s arrest. “This case has shocked me, it’s shocked our investigators, but the discovery would not have been possible without the officers’ intuition.”
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“The other kids — just imagine what they must have gone through and what they must have endured being inside of that home. And yes, a child was decomposing and yes, a child was found in the freezer,” White said.
White said when officers talked to France “they recognized that there was something not right about the conversation and the way this occupant was communicating with them,” he said, alleging that France was acting oddly and responding in a way meant to “push the officers away as if there was nothing go on.”
But “their intuition and their experience led them to know that something was wrong,” White said.
If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
