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0:00Disclaimer. This video is for commentary
0:02and educational purposes only. All
0:04individuals are presumed innocent until
0:07proven guilty in a court of law. Any
0:09footage used in this video is obtained
0:11through public records and falls under
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0:15analysis, and public interest.
0:29In Jacksonville, Florida, 21-year-old
0:32Darien Head was taken into custody after
0:34the death of his nearly three-year-old
0:36son, Amari Barnhill. Investigators
0:38reported that the child's body showed
0:40signs of both recent and older injuries,
0:42including bruises, lacerations, and
0:45blunt force trauma. Initially charged
0:47with aggravated child abuse and neglect,
0:50Head's charges were later upgraded to
0:52murder following the medical examiner's
0:54findings. Authorities confirmed that no
0:56other suspects were being considered in
0:58the case. According to police reports,
1:01Amari was found unresponsive in the
1:03family's apartment and later pronounced
1:05dead at the hospital. Detectives noted
1:07multiple injuries inconsistent with
1:09accidental harm, leading them to
1:11classify the case as a homicide.
1:13Neighbors and relatives told
1:15investigators that they had noticed
1:16concerning behavior in the household
1:18prior to Amari's death. These accounts
1:21combined with the medical evidence
1:22painted a picture of ongoing abuse and
1:24neglect. Officers documented patterns of
1:27injuries that suggested the child had
1:29been subjected to repeated harm over
1:31time. When questioned, Head was
1:33described as calm but guarded, providing
1:35limited explanations for the severe
1:37injuries his son had sustained.
1:40Detectives pressed for clarity, seeking
1:42answers about the final hours leading up
1:43to Amari's death. This is the
1:45interrogation of Darien Head.
1:56Hey, sorry about the wait.
2:01I'm Detective Sha. Okay, this is my
2:03partner, Detective Silox. All right, I'm
2:07going to go over some things with you
2:09and then we'll talk about why we're
2:10here. Okay.
2:14See 11:43.
2:18All right. What's your first name?
2:20>> Darian.
2:21>> Spell Darien for me.
2:22>> D R I E.
2:25>> Okay. No middle name?
2:26>> No.
2:27>> Last name?
2:28>> H.
2:31>> And what's your birthday?
2:33>> January 30th, 1994.
2:37>> And what's your address?
2:4132. What?
2:44There a bug on the floor or something?
2:46What?
2:49>> Spell that for me.
2:51>> S R
2:54>> S E R.
2:55>> That's
2:56>> Uhhuh.
2:57>> I V E
2:59>> V E N.
3:03>> Street.
3:04>> Yeah.
3:04>> What's the zip?
3:08And what's a phone number for you?
3:17>> Okay. And where do you work?
3:20>> This is where my granddad is like from
3:22time to time store.
3:31>> Okay.
3:34All right. First, I'm gonna go over what
3:36your rights are. Okay. Um place is the
3:39police memorial building. Today's date
3:42is November 11th, 2015
3:46and the time is 11
3:50>> 11:45.
3:51>> 45.
3:53Okay.
3:54Read this first line out for me.
4:00>> United States Constitution.
4:02>> Okay. You do not have to make a
4:04statement or say anything. Anything you
4:06say can be used against you in court.
4:08You have the right to talk to a lawyer
4:10for advice before you make a statement
4:11or before any questions are asked of you
4:13and to have the lawyer with you during
4:15any questioning. If you cannot afford to
4:17hire a lawyer, one will be appointed for
4:19you before any questioning if you wish.
4:22If you do answer questions, you have the
4:23right to stop answering questions at any
4:25time and consult with the lawyer. Do you
4:26understand that?
4:28Okay. Sign right here saying you
4:30understand that.
4:44All right.
4:46So,
4:52we need to um to get in to take some
4:54photos of the house. And I know you
4:56don't live there, but according to your
4:58girlfriend, you've been staying there.
4:59Okay. So, we want to get consent from
5:01you as well to take some photos of the
5:03inside of the house. So, I'm going to go
5:04ahead and do that real quick
5:10for King Street number 65. Okay. And
5:15what this is saying is that you give us
5:16permission to go inside the house and
5:18process the house for any evidence or
5:20anything like that that we need. If
5:21you'll sign right here, you can read
5:23through it.
6:11Okay. Put the date on.
6:15>> Okay. So, walk me through what happened
6:18today.
6:20>> Well, I mean, well, ever since he got to
6:23my to my girlfriend house with me, he
6:27don't eat
6:29>> Mhm. He don't eat no type of
6:33meal food like cook chicken and you know
6:37like a regular dinner.
6:39>> He don't eat it. Only thing he eat
6:42little bits food like I cook a batch of
6:45fries. If we eat anything else with the
6:48fries that's the only thing he touch is
6:49the fries
6:50>> cuz that's little stuff and I get
6:53chicken or whatever. But
6:57like last night he was eating. So he
7:01wasn't he only took a couple of bites
7:03out of it. So he watching the move and
7:05whatever whatever. So he not eating. So
7:08I told him to stand up and eat his food.
7:11But I told I broke him in the room with
7:13me and my girlfriend. So he got a
7:17whooping that night. Well last night
7:18because he didn't um eat his food or
7:21whatever. Whatever. Then later on this
7:24morning, I woke up, we had I had some
7:27more food, you know, I'm trying to feed
7:28it to him. He still not eating.
7:32So I keep telling him to eat it cuz I I
7:34can't just go and fix some other food
7:36for him, you know, cuz we need that
7:38throughout the whole time that she get a
7:41food st or whatever. Whatever.
7:44>> And
7:46when when basically when I'm trying to
7:48feed him, he gets in the car, he just
7:51say nope. He literally will say no. But
7:53I ask him, "You want some cookies? You
7:55want some chips? You want something to
7:57drink?" He'll say yeah. He know to say
7:59yeah about that. Like he'll just eat
8:01little stuff. So when I told him not he
8:03ain't going to get none of the the
8:05snacks or whatever. He got to eat his
8:06food first.
8:08>> So he still saying no like he not going
8:11to eat it. So that's when I gave him
8:13whooping again.
8:15I gave him more whooping. That's when he
8:18just like he just started kind of
8:20falling out like he don't even want to
8:22get a whooping. So he like just have his
8:25legs a little loose and just kind of
8:27fall out. Not like literally fall out.
8:30>> You know what I'm saying? But he'll just
8:31like get go we like I don't want to
8:33stand up. I don't want to do anything.
8:34Basically what I say he don't want to do
8:36anything. So
8:38>> I beat him I beat him some more on the
8:40um on the behind. So every time when I
8:43beat him beat him beat him. That's my
8:45girlfriend like, "Don't even worry about
8:46it. Don't beat him no more." You know
8:48what I'm saying? He gonna eat
8:49regardless. Like, he gonna want me to
8:50eat something. So, I was like, "All
8:52right, I just don't want him to starve."
8:54But I understand cuz she basically don't
8:56want me to keep beating them. You know,
8:58cuz I I barely really have to beat my
9:00daughters. I can just pop my daughter on
9:02the head two times. She'll straighten
9:04up. She'll eat, do what she supposed to
9:06do. So, with him, when she told me to
9:09stop, I stopped beating him. And I guess
9:12he uh used restroom on himself like
9:15booooed on himself or whatever because I
9:17guess he he was eating last night and he
9:19just booed.
9:20>> So he pooped himself.
9:22>> Yes. Now whatever. So when he used
9:25that's when I put him in the tub.
9:27>> I put the tub up her like that much like
9:30I do my daughter. And I let them take
9:33their own baths. I don't bathe him cuz
9:35usually he'll tell me to come and bathe
9:37him cuz that's what his mom do.
9:39>> Mhm. And I don't even bathe my daughter.
9:42So I let him sit in the I'm walking back
9:45and forth to check on him. That's when
9:47he my my second time, not even my third
9:50time, like the second time I come in,
9:53he's just like slouching over like how
9:55basically what he was doing when I was
9:57trying to bring him.
9:57>> Can you show me how he was like sit how
10:00he was? How was he slouching over?
10:02>> Sitting and then he was like throwing
10:05himself open like literally like
10:08literally
10:08>> like this. how I was telling you like
10:10the dead weight just having his his legs
10:12loosened. He'll literally like loosen
10:14>> how you were telling me you haven't told
10:16>> No, when I just told you um
10:18>> Okay. I was just say you haven't talked
10:20to me so I just tell you that
10:23>> make him stand up.
10:24>> Uhhuh.
10:24>> And I
10:25>> So like he would go like
10:27>> Yeah. limp itself but he only limp he
10:30only really limp itself to the point
10:32where some water
10:34>> like came over his head but he wasn't
10:36deep in it. And so he let himself fall
10:39in the water. That's when I pulled him
10:41back up
10:42>> because like the water was all over his
10:44face,
10:45>> you know. So I ain't want him to just
10:47lay under the water. So I picked him up
10:49as soon as basically he dropped and his
10:51mouth was kind of open. So I don't know
10:53if he swallowed in the water or not cuz
10:56he wasn't choking.
10:57>> Mhm. So when he kept when he had not
11:00slump slumped over and all that and I
11:03picked him up, that's when I had to put
11:05him in the room in my daughter room like
11:07it's right there. So when I walk out the
11:09bathroom, all I got to do is turn right
11:11in her room right there.
11:12>> So when I turn right, went in there, I
11:14lay him down on the bed and
11:17>> he was like, well, he was breathing, you
11:20know, he wasn't like gasping for help or
11:23choking or acting, you know what I'm
11:26saying? like he couldn't breathe or
11:27nothing like that.
11:28>> So while he laying there, he breathing.
11:31You know what I'm saying? I'm telling
11:32him to sit up. He don't want me to sit
11:33up. So I like, "All right, just lay up."
11:37I went out. Came back. He's still doing
11:39the same thing. I went out again, came
11:42back again to check on him. That's when
11:44he just like ran there like I don't even
11:46see his eyes. I don't see him breathing.
11:48No. So that's when I run straight to him
11:51just to see like what's wrong with him
11:52because I didn't see his any anytime
11:55like when I grew up, you know what I'm
11:57saying? Watching anybody sleep, I look
11:59at them and make sure like I still see
12:01the the stomach or the chest moving or
12:04anything. I didn't see anything moving
12:06on. He was just laying there cuz I
12:08turned on the movie and I press play on
12:10the movie. He'll watch you can watch the
12:11movie or whatever whatever. But he he
12:13was just laying there. So that's when
12:16when I grabbed him. At first at first I
12:19grabbed him while he was still on the
12:20bed. But because I me I don't really
12:23know CPR. So I just grabbed him. He was
12:26still on the bed going to his mouth.
12:27Make sure everything pushing on his
12:29chest everything. But then I got him off
12:31the bed and put him on the floor
12:32>> on flat surface so I won't have to push
12:35all the way. You know what I'm saying?
12:36Like he on the bed so I couldn't really
12:38push how I'm supposed to cuz I could
12:40have, you know what I'm saying? Messed
12:41up his uh
12:42>> his insides or whatever. So I'm just
12:45pushing lightly on the bed. And I knew
12:47that's probably wouldn't help. So I laid
12:48him on flat surface. And I'm doing the
12:51same thing, breathing in his mouth, and
12:54it's like the air going straight in and
12:56coming straight out.
12:57>> Mhm.
12:57>> It sounds like a burp, like like dead
13:01burp, you know, like a whole bunch of
13:04air in them and all that just comes out
13:06like a B.
13:07>> And I kept I did it repeatedly. I did it
13:11repeatedly cuz I didn't know I don't
13:13know what's going on cuz my baby mom was
13:15telling me not the one who um who who
13:18house I went to but his mother
13:21>> she told me that he have seizures and I
13:24don't I never never known him but I had
13:26the seizures and she said he have
13:28seizures and and all type of so I don't
13:32I don't know what really happened
13:34because she when she tell me he have
13:37seizures I felt like she just telling me
13:39that so I can care for him more and
13:40treat him like a baby
13:42>> cuz I don't feel like he has to. She
13:44just treat him like a actual child,
13:47>> you know, cuz he he's almost three and
13:50he don't even talk clear.
13:52>> Like he mumbles his words. He But he
13:54know what he's saying.
13:56>> Cuz once I show it to him, whatever,
13:58whatever, he know exactly everything. So
14:01like I told her, I was like, "You can't
14:03keep teaching him the baby stuff." Cuz
14:05she telling me how her and her mama talk
14:08to him. They talk to him nicely and they
14:10sing stuff to him like sing everything
14:12to him. So I'm like I'm not gonna sing
14:15stuff to him so he can so he can learn.
14:17I'm like that's why he's still kind of
14:19learning slower because you teaching him
14:21slower. So how I talk my daughters that
14:23same way I I basically doing him. You
14:26know what I'm saying? Talking to him
14:27like a grown human. You know what I'm
14:29saying? Talking to him talking to him.
14:31He gets a lot of stuff. He know a lot of
14:33stuff. So when it comes to the to cuz he
14:36always used to um fall out, act weak,
14:40act like he don't want to eat. So in the
14:43tub when he was doing it in the tub, he
14:45only did it like once
14:47>> that I saw cuz he cuz I leave them in
14:50there so they can um take a bath they
14:53did it at one time when I went in there
14:55and when I picked him up and that's when
14:57all that happened and me I I thought
15:01like it wasn't nothing really wrong with
15:03him until he wasn't like really trying
15:05to move or nothing like that. Right.
15:07>> So that's when I went in there and I
15:09woke up my girlfriend and I was like,
15:11"Hey, you got to get up." I was like,
15:13"Man, I don't know what's going on. He
15:15just, you know what I'm saying? Just act
15:18like he can't he can't breathe. He not
15:21doing nothing." So I was like, "Man,
15:22just call the ambulance." And she just
15:26basically panic. And I was like, "Don't
15:29panic." You know what I'm saying? Don't
15:30worry about nothing. You know what I'm
15:32saying? Whatever. Whatever.
15:34Don't worry about it. cuz she was like,
15:35"What I'm going to do?" Like, "You ain't
15:38got nothing to do with this. I don't
15:40know what's going on. You didn't see
15:42him. You didn't see what's going on."
15:44So, cuz she was sleep. I had to wake up
15:46out of her sleep cuz both of my her and
15:48my daughters were asleep.
15:49>> So, I woke her up.
15:50>> So, you and the baby were the only ones
15:52that were awake.
15:53>> Me and him. Yeah. Cuz he woke up first
15:55and I heard him like walking around and
15:58like saying something. So I woke up
16:00immediately cuz anything got hit like a
16:03kid or whoever talking she can be
16:05talking and I'm going wake up
16:06>> because you know what I'm saying that's
16:08that's just me in this like thing he can
16:09like wake me up. So when I heard him
16:12talking I'm like all right that's when I
16:15fix him some more like fix him some food
16:17or whatever whatever he ain't even want
16:19to eat. So I I don't know why he don't
16:23really eat the food because I can feed
16:25him the food and he eat it and he can
16:27taste that like it tastes as good. So
16:29it's not like it's some nasty food or
16:32it's not really what he eat cuz he don't
16:34have you know how kids that have a
16:35certain face. They'll make a face. If
16:37it's nasty that really make a face and
16:39>> it's nasty. I don't want it.
16:42>> Give it to him. He chew it.
16:44>> Natural. I'm like I'm not going to feed
16:45you. You can feed yourself. Your sister
16:47feed herself. Whatever we get for her,
16:49she feed us.
16:50>> And is his sister the same age as him?
16:52>> Yes.
16:52>> So you're comparing how he acts with how
16:54she acts.
16:55>> Okay.
16:56>> Both of them.
16:57>> Since he's been born, how much time have
16:59you spent with him? How often?
17:01>> I haven't seen him the whole two years
17:03he been born. I only seen him I I can
17:06count on my fingers. One f one hand.
17:09>> Mhm.
17:09>> Like four times to most.
17:11>> And of those four times, how many times
17:14has he come to stay with you?
17:16>> Yeah. But you can stay at that long if
17:18she she'll let him come that one day.
17:21She'll come and get him the next day. I
17:22have to take him the next day.
17:24>> Okay.
17:25>> Cuz and then she start saying he too
17:27young to come over there. And I'm like
17:29well my daughters be over. I mean my
17:30daughter cuz my second daughter wasn't
17:32born yet. So my first daughter like my
17:34daughter over here too. You know what
17:36I'm saying? So she's saying she don't
17:37want him to get sick. Whatever. When I'm
17:39like my daughter is over here. She not
17:41getting sick. There's nothing wrong.
17:42It's nothing going to happen to him. You
17:44know what I'm saying? I'm going to look
17:45after him just how I look after her. You
17:47know what I'm saying? So they cuz they
17:48the same age. So it's nothing I can do
17:50different. I can do everything the same
17:52cuz they the same age. So I guess her
17:54being the mom that's her first child.
17:57She wanted to be a protect. She didn't
17:59bring him at all. She I didn't see him
18:01at all. Like only saw him four times to
18:04the most. Like I said the whole time he'
18:07been born two years.
18:08>> And how long have you had him this time?
18:10When she brought him this time, how long
18:12have you had him? I had him the whole
18:16last week. I say either Saturday or
18:20Sunday.
18:21>> Okay.
18:21>> So, this is the first time you've really
18:23gotten to be with him. My dad.
18:27>> Yes. That's that's the actual first
18:29time.
18:29>> Uhhuh.
18:30>> Cuz she have you on child support. So,
18:32>> it's like
18:34I never I never really had a say. So I
18:37never really I I never really can do
18:40nothing because basically of the wants I
18:43got I couldn't go like downtown and tell
18:46them I can't see my son
18:48>> right
18:49>> you know so
18:50>> I couldn't say nothing and I had to stay
18:53in one of my daughters that's the only
18:54thing really made me feel kind of better
18:56because I have daughters I have two
18:58daughters cuz the last time I got locked
19:00up my girlfriend was supposed to be
19:02pregnant but she didn't get pregnant
19:04until I got out
19:05>> so that's when she had my second
19:07daughter.
19:07>> Okay.
19:08>> So now,
19:08>> and that's the girlfriend that you live
19:10that that you're
19:11>> I go to town.
19:13>> Um my two daughters,
19:15>> like, you know, when my second daughter
19:18got born, that's when, you know what I'm
19:19saying? Everything was all right.
19:21>> But I still can see my son, you know,
19:24and my second daughter, she looked
19:26exactly like my son. That's how I know
19:29my baby mama was like stressing over
19:31everything about me having another baby
19:33mama, having son. my last daughter
19:36looked exactly like her. Like she got
19:39his eyes, his chin, his nose,
19:42everything. You know what I'm saying? So
19:45when I finally, you know what I'm
19:47saying? Cuz basically with my first baby
19:48mama, she just want somebody to
19:50basically like talk to her, you know,
19:52like basically talk to her nicely. Like
19:54I want to be with her,
19:56>> but I can't talk to her like that cuz I
19:58don't want her feelings to get back in
19:59and [ __ ]
20:00>> Well, I love you and I'm like, no, it's
20:03not about him. I want him. I mean, it's
20:05not about that. I want my son, right?
20:07>> And it's like every time when I did try
20:09to talk to her about him, that's the
20:11first thing she'll say,
20:12>> like something about me and her. And I'm
20:14like, man, that's what it's not about.
20:15It's about him. And I just talked to her
20:17last night and she was like, you know,
20:20cuz he hard. He you know what I'm
20:23saying? Don't don't comprehend like he
20:26comprehend but he don't do what she say
20:28because she already spoiled him. So he
20:30not going to listen to her like that.
20:32>> And she was and I was like, "Yeah, I
20:33know." cuz I done partnered him a couple
20:35of times and he don't even cry.
20:37>> Mhm.
20:37>> She was like, "Yeah, he don't want to
20:38cry." So,
20:39>> so since he's been with you, okay, um
20:42since last week, how many times have you
20:45felt you needed to pop him to to get
20:47him?
20:48>> I said
20:50to this day, I said that's like cuz I I
20:54was supposed to get two weeks. I said to
20:57the most that he done been only popped
20:59him at least like six or seven times cuz
21:02well whooped him six or seven times
21:04>> and that's six or seven different times.
21:06>> Yeah. Different um
21:08>> uh occasions and what different days but
21:11when I do pop him he get at least like
21:13three or four pops.
21:15>> And how do you normally pop him? What do
21:17you what do you do to pop him?
21:19>> I pop him with my hand on the
21:21>> with your hand.
21:21>> Yes, ma'am. And and
21:24that don't do anything. Uh-huh.
21:26>> It's like he'll just sit down. Just
21:28>> So, what do you do when it doesn't do
21:30anything?
21:31>> I tell him to stand up cuz I only whoop
21:33him when he don't eat.
21:34>> That's the only time I beat him if he
21:36don't eat.
21:37>> It's like we we eat almost, you know,
21:40three meals a day,
21:41>> right?
21:42>> You know what I'm saying? So, he don't
21:43eat none of he don't eat none of the
21:46meals throughout the day, but I can
21:48bring some chips. Like I said, he would
21:50eat the whole bag of chips lit,
21:51>> right? And like through all the six or
21:55seven times that I did beat him, I said
21:57I like Yeah. I popped him like three,
21:59four times out of all those times.
22:01>> Mhm.
22:02>> You know what I'm saying? Cuz when I did
22:04when I was whipping him earlier, she
22:06told me to stop. Like don't even worry
22:07about it cuz he just acting hard.
22:09>> Yeah. When you said that happened
22:10yesterday
22:11>> when
22:12>> when she told you to stop when you
22:14started telling Okay. Today. Okay. Let's
22:17you when you initially started talking
22:19you talked about a spanking that
22:20happened yesterday and then you talked
22:23about this morning. So let's start with
22:25yesterday. Okay. What exactly happened
22:28with that?
22:29>> Yesterday it was the same way. He food
22:33>> he won't eat it. So I just tell him to
22:35stand up because if we have a movie plan
22:38or whatever whatever he not going to eat
22:40his food by the movie plan cuz he
22:42because basically what my daughter
22:44always want to watch. She want to watch
22:46the cartoon movie Rio. We have Rio one
22:48and two.
22:49>> So when that one go off, I put in the
22:52other one. That one go off. I put in Rio
22:55one again. She going she going to want
22:57to watch it all over again, right?
22:59>> So they was in the room supposed to be
23:01eating. My girlfriend going in there get
23:04him the food. I was like, he eating cuz
23:07I know he don't normally eat, touch the
23:10food or whatever. So when she go back
23:12there and get him the food, I was like,
23:13is he eating? She said, "No, but he
23:16acted like he wanted, but the only thing
23:19disturbing him was the movie." So, I
23:21went back there just to see if he was
23:23eating. And he was trying to pick up the
23:25food with with the fork, but it's like
23:27he don't know how to even hold the fork,
23:28right? To get the food. So, I did myself
23:32got a scoop, you know what I'm saying?
23:34Some rice and some um some um collard
23:36creams. And I fed it to him. He chewed
23:39it up himself. He chewed it and he ate
23:41it. I was like, "All right, eat your
23:43food." I did it again. Gave it to him.
23:45He trying it up. He kind of tried to eat
23:48it.
23:49>> It was still some more right like he
23:50didn't even want to eat it anymore.
23:52>> Then when I tried it one more time and
23:54tried to give it to him, that's when he
23:55just looked at the movie like I don't
23:57even want to eat. So he looked at the
23:58movie.
23:59>> So I'm like, "No, you can't look at the
24:01movie. You have to eat your food. If you
24:02look at the movie and eat your food, I
24:04wouldn't care. You could just be in
24:06there eating whatever, whatever." Cuz
24:08that's same thing with his sister was
24:10>> doing. Mhm.
24:10>> So when he wanted to look at the movie,
24:14I picked him up. Brown came in the room
24:17with us. So he won't look at TV cuz we
24:19were watching the movie too. So when he
24:22came in there with us, he turned around
24:23and looked at the TV while we was
24:25looking at. I was like, "Nuhuh. You you
24:27doing the same thing what you was doing
24:29now. You got to eat your food." And I'm
24:31put it in front. Eat your food. Eat your
24:33food. Eat your food. He'll look at me
24:35like I don't do it. But he'll grab the
24:38fork and be like, "Well, I tried to
24:40cut." He know I'mma whoop him. So, I'mma
24:43try to eat.
24:44>> All right. If you try to eat, you going
24:45to try to eat. I ain't going to force
24:47you like to stuff a lot in your mouth
24:49and you know what I'm saying? Eat. Eat
24:50what you can eat. Chew it up. You know
24:52what I'm saying? Just keep going back at
24:54it. At least show me that you eat like
24:55half of it and that's it.
24:57>> You can eat half and you can go back to
24:58your business. I don't care if you can
25:00have candy or whatever. You know what
25:02I'm saying? Cuz that's how I do my
25:04daughter. I do the same thing for her.
25:05and she she understand it fully.
25:07>> She'll eat her food quick.
25:09>> You you'll really think she'll probably
25:12>> throw it over her shoulder.
25:13>> Your daughter also grew up with you,
25:15right? So, she's used that's the reason.
25:17So, there's a little difference here.
25:18That's what you understand. That's
25:20exactly what it was. And that's what I
25:22was telling my first baby mama. I was
25:24like, since you've been keeping me
25:25keeping me away from him and keeping him
25:27away from me or whatever, he don't
25:29really know me, right?
25:31>> You know what I'm saying? But every time
25:33I be like, "Who I am?" He'll say,
25:34"Daddy."
25:35>> Mhm.
25:36>> You know who I am? Yeah. You daddy. He
25:38He know like he know who I am because he
25:40been seeing me through his life. But he
25:42didn't he haven't saw me literally in
25:44his life like standing there every day,
25:47every night or every minute or whatever.
25:49You know what I'm saying? Every other
25:50week at least. He didn't never see me
25:51there.
25:52>> You know what I'm saying? Because I
25:53wasn't with him his mom. She didn't want
25:56me around.
25:58>> So
25:58>> like, "All right." So,
25:59>> back to last night, he's watching Rio.
26:02He's not eating. What happens?
26:04>> I bring him in my room. That's when he
26:06tried to look at the movie we looking
26:07at. And I'm trying to feed him the food.
26:10He's still not feeding. I mean, he's
26:12still not eating. So, I tell him, "All
26:14right, since you want to look at the
26:15movie and you not eating like I had to
26:19plate myself." I just told him, "Turn
26:21around, look at the wall, and I'mma feed
26:23it to you. You can eat it."
26:25>> Mhm.
26:26>> Still not eating. So I spanked him two
26:29or three times and I just told him to
26:30stand up. I was like, "Stand up until
26:32you feel like you going to eat the food.
26:33If you're not going to eat the food,
26:35then you have to stand up. Whatever.
26:37Whatever."
26:39>> And that's how it's going to have to be.
26:41>> But he still ain't eat the food. So I
26:44wouldn't I wasn't f to stay up because I
26:45was already getting tired. I wasn't
26:47going to stay up and
26:49>> make him nothing. So I put the food in
26:51the refrigerator, let him stand right
26:53there until he really got sleeping.
26:55That's when he went to sleep.
26:57>> Okay. So when you spanked him two or
26:59three times, how did you spank him?
27:01>> On the palm. My hand.
27:03>> Okay. With your hand again or with
27:05something else?
27:05>> With my hand.
27:06>> Okay. And then you put him to sleep.
27:08Where did you put him to sleep at?
27:10>> In our room. He
27:12>> So he slept in your bed.
27:13>> That's mine.
27:14>> Okay.
27:15>> Cuz my daughter was already in home. So
27:17>> Okay.
27:18>> He um he slept in there with us. So when
27:20I woke up, he was already woke. So
27:24>> the first thing I thought maybe he
27:25hungry cuz he the first person up and he
27:28usually don't wake up first. So I'm like
27:30maybe he hungry. Maybe he cuz he didn't
27:32eat that much last night. He shouldn't
27:34go hungry. So I got some more food, made
27:37some more food and he I'm trying to feed
27:39him that too. He didn't want it.
27:42>> Mhm.
27:42>> And it's like it's nothing I can really
27:44fix him. You know what I'm saying? Cuz I
27:45don't I don't know what he really eat.
27:48That's why when he first came over there
27:50and we fed him some spaghetti, I asked
27:52him is he allergic to anything like any
27:56like anything possible. She was like,
27:57"No." Cuz at first she said it was
27:59tomato sauce or tomatoes.
28:01Then when I asked her again, she
28:02switches and say it was her. She was
28:04allergic to tomatoes or whatever. So I'm
28:07like, you know what I'm saying? Well,
28:09since she making it seem like he ain't
28:10allergic to anything, I'm going just
28:12feed him
28:13>> basically whatever we get. You know what
28:15I'm saying? Cuz I don't want to have to
28:16fix some food. what is he allergic to
28:18this and that because she could just
28:20tell me in one
28:21>> one message and she didn't tell me that
28:23so I felt like it wasn't nothing
28:25>> you know what I'm saying like he ain't
28:26allergic so he been eating everything
28:28what we eat
28:29>> so he haven't had no allergic reactions
28:31or he haven't had anything so he been
28:34cuz it done been some nights that he
28:36have ate he ate it you know what I'm
28:38saying cuz he know I said I'mma tell him
28:40stand up look at the wall and you going
28:42to eat he done ate all them nights all
28:45them nights and I have to beat him cuz
28:46he knew I'm I'mma make him stand up so I
28:49ain't have to beat him. So it got to the
28:50point where I had to beat him. You know
28:52what I'm saying? Because he just act
28:55like he ain't want to eat it.
28:57>> You know what I'm saying? So I had to
28:58beat him that day. Like when he woke up
29:01that morning, I gave him two or three
29:03>> this morning.
29:04>> Yeah. This morning. Yes. So when he woke
29:06up in the morning, that's when gave him
29:08some food. He act like he still went to
29:10eat.
29:11>> So I still whooped him again. I was
29:13like,
29:14>> "And how did that whooping go exactly?
29:16What did you do when you walked him?
29:18>> The same thing. Pull down his pamper. Um
29:21>> Okay. So, you pull down his pamper. Do
29:22you pull it down every time you spank
29:24him? Like, so you can get skin?
29:27>> Yes, ma'am. Cuz like cuz he don't feel
29:29it.
29:30>> Uhhuh.
29:30>> He don't feel it. And And it's basically
29:32like all he really weighs jeans.
29:34>> And so he not going to feel it, but like
29:36through some jeans. So I have to pull
29:38his pants down.
29:40>> You know what I'm saying? So when I did
29:41pull his pamper down, he know already
29:43know what time it is. assume I'm about
29:45the problem. He'll tighten up. I'm like,
29:47see, you already know you going to get a
29:48whooping. So why you just can't sit here
29:50and eat
29:51>> if you know I'm I just got to whoop you.
29:54And
29:55>> you know what I'm saying? And I don't
29:56feel like whooping you. You know what
29:57I'm saying? It could be whatever in the
29:59morning or wherever in the evening,
30:00whatever time of day,
30:01>> he not going to do what he don't want to
30:03do. Period. So
30:05>> So you pull his pamper down, you spank
30:07him. Yes. How many times you hit him?
30:09>> I hit him like three or four, maybe five
30:11times because of, you know what I'm
30:13saying? cuz we already went through it
30:15last night and I already gave him a
30:16spanker last night.
30:17>> So that so this this morning that's when
30:20I spanked him release like five times
30:21said the most
30:23>> and then that's when I asked him again
30:25eat again. You know what I'm saying? He
30:28did. So I spanked him two more times and
30:30that's when she woke up. My girlfriend
30:32woke up and she was like don't even
30:34worry about it cuz he just going to sit
30:35there and he ain't even crying. She was
30:37like, "Don't worry about it because all
30:40all really what's going to happen is you
30:41just going to get madder and matter."
30:43>> And at that point, you had spanked him.
30:45Today, you had spanked him. That's like
30:47the third time you had spanked him cuz
30:48he wasn't
30:50the second time back to back cuz the
30:51first time I I I hit him like five or
30:53six times.
30:55>> Then the second time I hit him like
30:56three times to the most.
30:58>> So when I spanked him that last time,
31:00three times to the post, I like bumping
31:02cuz you know what I'm saying? He was
31:03>> and each time it was with his with your
31:06hand with
31:07>> he didn't he had done boo booed or
31:09whatever whatever so I put him in the
31:11tub and that's when he started doing all
31:14that you know what I'm saying like he
31:15didn't want
31:16>> okay when you got him out of the bathtub
31:19and you laid him in a bed what room did
31:22you put him in and what bed did you put
31:23him
31:24>> my daughter room and her bed
31:26>> which is there more than one bed in your
31:28daughter's room or just one bed
31:29>> is one bed
31:30>> okay and that's the only bed did you put
31:32a diaper on him when You laid him down
31:33or did you lay him down in just a towel?
31:36>> No, I gave him I put a diaper on him.
31:37>> Okay. Did you put any other clothes on
31:39him, a shirt or anything or pants?
31:42>> No, ma'am.
31:42>> Okay. And you just laid him in the bed
31:45and then how many? You said you checked
31:47on him a few times and he was breathing
31:49>> because when I when I lay him down and
31:51put the pimple on him, he was breathing
31:53like he was breathing. All right. Like
31:55he just going to go to sleep like he
31:56tired.
31:57>> Uhhuh.
31:57>> So like, "All right, you go to sleep.
31:59You you have to wake up and eat
32:01>> either way or go." So, I left my home,
32:04walked in the room with her, looked at
32:06the TV a couple of times, and then like
32:10it's like everything just kept like
32:11replaying in my head because he didn't
32:13want to eat, and he just acting like
32:15kind of sluggish. So, I went back in
32:17there to check on him.
32:18>> He's still breathing. He's still trying
32:20to like like he's still trying to
32:23basically breathe and look at the
32:25moving, but I guess he was tired, so he
32:28was still laying down. So I left out
32:30again, came back in, make sure he was
32:32straight. That's when he was just laying
32:35there.
32:35>> Mhm.
32:36>> So that's when I just start that's the
32:38first thing came to my mind to try to do
32:39CPR to see
32:41>> anything because he I just took him out
32:43of the tub and it was some water in his
32:45face. So
32:46>> And you said you you didn't put any
32:49clothes on him. You just put a pamper on
32:50him.
32:51>> Yes, ma'am.
32:51>> What did you do with the towel that you
32:53wrapped around? I ain't I ain't wrapping
32:55him up in the tires cuz the room
32:57>> you didn't dry him off from the tub.
32:59>> No,
33:00>> you just picked him up wet
33:01>> and let laid him over bed.
33:02>> Okay. Okay. So, there was no towel cuz
33:05we ain't got like towels.
33:07>> Hang on. I'm got lost. When you said he
33:10was in there when he when he booooed.
33:12What is that? Like you said he boo
33:14booed.
33:15>> Well, what is that? I don't I don't
33:18know.
33:18>> Earlier I clarified he pooped himself.
33:20>> Okay. Well, like did he pee and poop
33:22himself?
33:22>> He just pooped. And and when you say boo
33:24boo, you're saying poop himself?
33:27>> Yes, sir.
33:27>> Okay, that's what you mean. Boo- boo is
33:28poop. Yes, sir.
33:29>> All right. Did Was it a lot? Was a
33:31little bit?
33:32>> No, it was just like a a good little bit
33:35that you know.
33:36>> Was it like diarrhea? Was it loose
33:38>> or was it was like a normal?
33:40>> It wasn't like hard, you know? It wasn't
33:43like hard or firm. It was like like baby
33:45boo.
33:46>> But it wasn't like he had diarrhea.
33:47>> No, sir.
33:48>> Okay. Was there did you know was there
33:49like blood or anything in it or anything
33:51in the poop?
33:53>> Was there any kind of blood in the
33:54diaper at all or anything like that?
33:56>> I don't I don't think so because I ain't
33:59we I don't like our lights on our lights
34:02is only in the uh in the hallway. So I
34:05ain't going to be able to see in the
34:06room because we have to have a lamp in
34:08there,
34:09>> you know? So I ain't when I whenever I
34:11check his uh his diaper, I ain't look
34:14like in it and trying to you know what
34:16I'm saying and see. I just saw boooos.
34:17I'm like, "All right, he booooled when I
34:20sat him in the tub. I just
34:21>> Did you wipe him off or anything before
34:23you sat him in the tub?"
34:24>> No, I just
34:25>> So, you didn't clean his butt off or
34:27anything?
34:28>> Okay. Now, back to when you spanked him
34:31yesterday. Okay. And then when you
34:33spanked him again today and you pulled
34:35his pamper down to spank him, did you
34:37see any marks or bruises or anything on
34:40his butt when you spanked him?
34:42>> No, man. Like I said, I couldn't see
34:44really see in the womb cuz the womb
34:45would be kind of dark. We ain't have
34:47lighting now. I just
34:48>> You don't have any windows in your room?
34:50>> Yeah, but it's They wasn't like up or
34:53nothing because we got blinds and like a
34:56sheet or something over it. So, I really
34:57couldn't I can't really see anything in
35:00there. I could just see, you know what
35:02I'm saying? Them
35:03>> people and that's it. I can't see like a
35:06scar or you know I'm saying I can barely
35:09even see my tattoos when when I look at
35:11it. So, basically, I couldn't see
35:13anything.
35:14>> Okay. Okay. And when you said he boo
35:15booed. Okay. And he was saying, you
35:17know, the boo boo. You said you
35:19described it as like a baby's boo boo.
35:21>> Um what uh
35:25is that why you gave him a bath? Was
35:28because of the boo boo or for some other
35:30reason?
35:31>> It was because of the boooo.
35:33>> And was it bad enough that you felt he
35:34needed the bath instead of just wiping
35:36him with some baby wipes or something?
35:38Or
35:39>> we we don't have any wipes right now.
35:41>> Okay. So you have to wash him off.
35:43>> Yes, ma'am. I haven't went to work,
35:44>> okay,
35:45>> to get everything here. They got campus
35:48already, but the wipes, we've been ran
35:50out of wipes.
35:51>> Okay.
35:54>> Okay. And
35:57when
36:00hang one second, let me run out. I'll be
36:03right back.
36:11Be right back.
36:28Oh,
36:30>> on the door.
36:32>> Okay. Um, I just want to clarify a
36:35couple of things with you. Um,
36:40>> you said that the bed that you put him
36:43in today was your daughter's bed. Is
36:45that a bigger bed or the toddler bed?
36:50>> Okay.
36:50>> Not really like a a full size twin bed,
36:54but
36:54>> is there like a box fan in the room?
36:56>> Like a fan? Okay.
36:57>> Yes, sir.
36:58>> Okay.
36:59>> Um,
37:00>> there's a towel. Is that a towel that
37:02you use to get Is there There's a towel
37:03on the bed. Was that used with him? On
37:06which bed?
37:07>> On the toddler bed. There's like a towel
37:08in there. It looks like it's got some
37:10poop on it.
37:11>> Towel? He probably talking like one of
37:14my shirts or something. Okay.
37:15>> I say towel.
37:17>> Did you use a Did you use one of your
37:18shirts to get the poop off or anything?
37:20>> Poop off of him.
37:22>> Yeah.
37:22>> I mean or whatever.
37:25>> It was just a little bit still um kind
37:27of on when I got out to so I kind of
37:30wiped it off of him
37:31>> with one of your shirts.
37:32>> Yeah, sure. cuz that's um like the
37:34nearest thing to grab.
37:37>> Okay. And when you when you got him last
37:41week, okay, since when you when you got
37:44him, did he have any bruises or marks or
37:47anything on him when you got him?
37:51>> Not for this like the little scars like
37:54on his legs and stuff like on his knee.
37:57Scar on his knee. Like a couple scars
38:00around like on his leg or something.
38:02They look old,
38:03>> but they were scars, not bruises or not
38:06healed.
38:07>> Wasn't he enough, but already healed?
38:09>> It was pretty old.
38:11>> Okay. And when you were when you were
38:14whooping him during any of those times
38:16or since he's been with you at your
38:18house, has he fallen or anything since
38:21he's been at your house?
38:23>> Well, he only fell like once that I
38:27remember.
38:29And when he was in the tub,
38:33I think when I had not sat him in the
38:35tub, he fell forward a little bit and
38:38kind of hit his head on the tub. But I
38:41ain't I didn't even think it was like
38:42hard enough to
38:44>> So you didn't see an injury or anything
38:46when he fell and hit his head. You
38:47didn't see a gash in his head or
38:50anything like that?
38:51>> I didn't see like something wrong with
38:52his head until I walked back in there to
38:54get him out the tub. That's when I saw
38:56it was like a scar above
38:59above like his left eye thing.
39:03>> Now, when you say a scar, what do you
39:05mean by scar?
39:06>> It's not really a scar. It's like his
39:07skin pushed like kind of upwards.
39:10>> Okay. Do you know how that happened?
39:12>> No, man. That's that's what I said when
39:14I walked back in there. That's when it
39:15was on his face. That's when I just got
39:16him out and got him out the tub.
39:18>> So, he didn't have it when you put him
39:20in the tub and he had it when you got
39:22him out of the tub.
39:24>> Yeah. I he ain't having one um when I
39:26put him in cuz I was looking at him dead
39:28in his face when I sat him down. I was
39:30looking dead in his face.
39:32>> Okay.
39:33>> So, he didn't have when I put him in the
39:35tub. So, when I when I got him out,
39:37that's when I saw it.
39:38>> And he didn't have any other injuries on
39:40his body at all other than the scars on
39:43his knees when he when you got
39:45>> I know of because I didn't I didn't like
39:47I didn't check. Well, when you change
39:49his diaper, did you see any injuries or
39:52scars or any thing on his butt?
39:55>> He just stand up in front of me and I
39:56put his uh
39:57>> So, when he takes a poop, do you wipe
39:59his butt at all? I mean, do you get the
40:01poop out? I mean, I know your butt
40:03itches when you don't wipe at all.
40:05>> Yeah.
40:05>> So, I mean, are you are you wiping him?
40:08>> No, I don't I wipe I just put
40:10>> Okay. So, you just pull the pullup off
40:12and put another one on?
40:14>> No. When he boo, I just put it off and I
40:16put him in. Is he is he potty trained
40:18>> at all?
40:18>> That's that's what she told me. But he
40:20don't tell me anything about
40:23>> the pile.
40:24>> So when he's in the tub, do you see any
40:27bruises or marks on his butt at all?
40:30>> No, I didn't look at his butt. I didn't
40:32look at his butt at all. I just I just
40:33sat him in the tub
40:35>> and he looking at me face to face. I
40:36took him out the tub.
40:38>> When he was in the tub, All right, I'm
40:40going use my hand. I'm going to pretend
40:41this is the water line. Use your head.
40:43Show me how much of his head was
40:44underwater. It was it like he was facing
40:47so
40:48>> it was it was down.
40:49>> Okay.
40:50>> And he's like right here but he was
40:51facing up.
40:52>> So he was looking up. Was his nose and
40:54his mouth underwater?
40:55>> That's what I was saying. I I think it
40:57kind of was that that's when I was
40:59>> You think or you you're not sure?
41:00>> I'm not sure cuz I react when he fell
41:02down and reacted fast and pull
41:03>> from when you saw him before when you
41:06checked on him and you walked out and
41:08you came back in. How long do you think
41:10it was?
41:11>> It was nothing like two to three
41:13minutes. two or three minutes
41:14>> cuz it wasn't even five minutes cuz how
41:17my room how her room set up I could just
41:20be sitting like right there where my
41:21chair at and I can see right into the
41:24bathroom. So once I didn't see his head
41:27up or like his kind of his body kind of
41:30over, that's when I ran and uh to see
41:32what was wrong with him cuz I I could
41:34see right to the to the bathroom
41:36>> from
41:38when um trying to think from when you
41:41found him in the tub and you pulled him
41:44out to whenever you saw he wasn't
41:47breathing and you started CPR. How long
41:48do you think that was? Well, um, cuz I
41:53went cuz when I took him out of the tub
41:55and I was going back and forth to check
41:56on him, I say I took him out of the tub
41:59and laid him down and put the pimp on. I
42:02walked out the room like
42:05two minutes cuz I came I came back fast.
42:08It wasn't like no. I waited 10 5 10
42:11minutes soon soon. I walked out came
42:14back in to check on him within like two
42:16or three minutes and it was the same as
42:18second time. And when I started doing I
42:20say it was part of like
42:23eight, seven, eight minutes. Not even
42:25maybe 10 minutes.
42:26>> And your girlfriend was sleeping this
42:27whole time.
42:28>> Yes, sir. She was sleeping.
42:30>> Hey, do me a favor. The wall right there
42:32when you spank him. Show me how hard you
42:34spank him on the wall.
42:35>> I think I I spank him like hard enough
42:38so he can fit it.
42:38>> Okay. Just show me. Demonstrate. It's
42:40not you.
42:41>> Yeah, but I can't I don't want to do it
42:43like harder to be banging, but it's like
42:45a little harder. Well,
42:46>> okay.
42:47>> Yeah.
42:55trim it.
42:58>> All right.
43:00>> And that's how hard that's how hard you
43:02do it.
43:02>> Yeah. Yeah.
43:03>> And you do you pull a pull up?
43:04>> Yeah. I pull I pull the um the pull up
43:06down.
43:07Yeah. Pull up.
43:10>> So yeah, I spank him like
43:12>> a good a good You know what I'm saying?
43:14So feel it. I don't really spank him
43:17like to the point where he'll just get
43:19up and whine and then
43:20>> Yeah.
43:21>> You know what I'm saying? Do the same
43:22thing. I spank him to the point where
43:23he'll know he going to get he going to
43:25get a weapon. So
43:26>> what do you think happened to your son?
43:28>> Like what like what you mean?
43:30>> How how do you think he got like he got
43:32today?
43:33>> I mean I don't know cuz when I wasn't in
43:36the when I put him in the tub and I
43:38wasn't in in the bathroom with him.
43:42I mean I like how I tell you I was
43:45placed he right there. You know what I'm
43:47saying? So I could have I line all like
43:50line his sister up and how I line him
43:52up. I can do just like this and I can
43:54see his head.
43:55>> But when I looked at the TV and I and
43:57when I put him in there and I came back
43:58in there and looked at TV and turned
44:00back I didn't see his head at all.
44:02>> And you just hit him with your hand?
44:04>> Yes, sir. I just I just hit him with my
44:06hand.
44:06>> All right.
44:09>> There's two truths in this world. I hate
44:12paying taxes and you're lying right now.
44:15There's no way your hand did that right
44:17there.
44:21No way.
44:23That's impossible.
44:27Impossible.
44:35>> So, right now,
44:36>> why don't you tell us what
44:37>> Tell us what happened. Listen, if you
44:39got mad
44:41>> get I wasn't mad.
44:43>> We're both parents. Okay.
44:44>> I get aggravated. I get aggravated. But
44:47you right now, you need to tell us the
44:49truth cuz what you're telling us now
44:50ain't the truth.
44:51>> Flip flop.
44:53>> I want to tell y'all that. Ain't no
44:54abuser.
44:55>> Tell us.
44:56>> Just had I just had to walk. If I did
44:58that,
44:58>> what did you do? Show me what you did
45:01with the flip-flop. This is Show me what
45:03you did with the flipflop.
45:05>> With the flipflop.
45:05>> How hard? Show how I got to know, man,
45:08cuz we got
45:09>> That's what I'm saying. I did it hard
45:10enough so he can feel it. I didn't know
45:12that he had bruises. If I would have
45:13known he had bruises, I would have never
45:15whooped him again.
45:15>> Those aren't bruises. That's blood.
45:17>> That's blood. That's where his skin is
45:19missing. He has no skin on his butt at
45:22all.
45:24>> All right, let me ask you this. If this
45:26is what happened, this is what happened.
45:28Was it when you were popping him? Is
45:29that when he fell and hit his head?
45:32Because he didn't hit his head in the
45:33tub to get that. He didn't fall no times
45:36at all.
45:38>> Did you knock him down?
45:39>> Oh, I don't know, sir. I don't
45:42>> How did he get that on his head?
45:43>> That's what I was saying. That's not
45:45from the top.
45:46>> That's all I
45:47>> You didn't tell us nothing about that
45:48until she asked you about it. I
45:51>> mean, sir, I already knew about the
45:53stuff the the thing on his head because
45:55I saw it. I mean,
45:56>> but you didn't think that you should
45:57tell us about that?
45:58>> You never said anything about until she
46:00directly asked you. That's what you
46:01said.
46:02>> I didn't know. I didn't hit him to the
46:04point where he fell or nothing like
46:05that. I didn't hit him that hard for him
46:07to fall. That's why I was telling you I
46:09was spanking with my hand first. But I
46:11did grab the flipflop. I did grab a
46:14flipflop. Look at all those flip flops.
46:19>> I didn't see none of them.
46:21>> You didn't see them. But you made them.
46:24>> You did that.
46:25>> You did that to him. Spanking him.
46:27>> I did.
46:27>> So you're not just spanking him on his
46:29butt. You're spanking him all over the
46:32place.
46:33>> Okay.
46:34>> No, I didn't like literally like turn
46:36him and hit him.
46:37>> No, he moved. He's a kid.
46:38>> He probably did, but I didn't That's
46:40what I'm saying. I didn't literally aim
46:41for his leg. And
46:42>> Do you realize what you did today?
46:44>> Yes. I I was just trying to whoop him. I
46:46understand.
46:47>> Do you realize today you beat your son
46:49to death?
46:51>> That's what you did.
46:52>> Could be.
46:53>> Your son is dead.
46:54>> Yes.
46:56You beat him to death.
46:59>> Because you let your anger take over
47:02you.
47:03>> But I
47:04>> But butts, okay, they still bleed and
47:06they still hurt.
47:09>> Do you know how hard you got to hit
47:10someone to make them bleed?
47:15>> So you need to start telling us exactly
47:17what happened.
47:20>> Doing a flipflop. That's That's
47:22>> how hard how many Look at that. Look at
47:24that. Just look at that.
47:29You did that to him
47:35because he wouldn't eat. He is two and
47:39he doesn't know you.
47:43He doesn't even really know who you are.
47:46He's afraid
47:51you did that to him.
47:56So tell us exactly what happened.
48:00You How many times have you hit him with
48:02the flipflop?
48:05>> Just from last night to today.
48:07>> How many times from last night to today
48:09did you hit him with the flipflop?
48:11>> Last night when I was with the flipflop.
48:16>> Last night when I was hitting him with
48:17the flipflop. It wasn't It wasn't no
48:19more than 10 times.
48:21>> Okay. And where were you hitting him at?
48:24>> I was hitting him on the on on the butt.
48:26Last night is the only time where he he
48:28was really sprung around and like
48:30turning around. And that's only how I
48:32can say that I made the once on his legs
48:33cuz he was turning around.
48:35>> Okay.
48:36>> But I didn't think I left bruises on him
48:38like that cuz I was just I was beating
48:40him. I wasn't trying to like
48:43I wasn't trying to do whatever y'all
48:44said.
48:45>> And I believe you. Listen. Listen to me.
48:47Listen.
48:49I I believe you that you are trying to
48:52kill him. Okay. I believe that.
48:55>> All right.
48:57>> But the issue,
48:59>> where's the flip-flop at?
49:02>> Yeah.
49:03>> Which one was it? What does it look
49:04like?
49:05>> It got like kind of um like diamond uh
49:09things on the um on the how you put your
49:12toe in between and it go around your
49:15foot like that. It was like it got like
49:17little, you know what I'm saying? Little
49:19fake diamond things on.
49:21>> Was it What color was it?
49:22>> Flipflop.
49:23>> Okay. Where is that at?
49:25>> It should be in our room cuz that's the
49:27last That's the last place the um
49:29>> How did he get hit in the head? How How
49:31did that happen?
49:32>> I don't know because when I wh I was
49:34whooping him last night, he only fell to
49:36the point where that he he didn't bump
49:38his head. He only fell to to catch
49:41himself and get right back up. So when I
49:44did that and when she when when I was
49:46whooping him and whatever whatever and
49:48it got too late I stopped. So later on
49:52the next day in well this morning that's
49:54when I had to that's when I walked him
49:56again and I got the flip-flop again.
49:59>> But
49:59>> and how many times you hit him today
50:01with the flip?
50:02>> Oh it was like six or seven times.
50:05>> And how was he acting when you were
50:06hitting him?
50:07>> He was he was crying and like but not no
50:10like crying like he got tears. He was
50:12just like whining and like stop,
50:15>> you know. So he was just whining to the
50:17point where he was like basically
50:18wanting me to stop picking him, but I
50:20just wanted him to eat. So I just popped
50:23him so he can try to eat. He did not eat
50:26at all.
50:27>> Mhm.
50:28>> So once once I popped him and my
50:31girlfriend woke up and she was like,
50:33"Don't worry about it." I stopped
50:34popping.
50:35>> Did your girlfriend spank him at all?
50:38She don't even she don't even want to go
50:40through nothing because she already gone
50:42through stuff with his mom
50:43>> since he's been there. She's never
50:45spanked him.
50:46>> It's only you.
50:48>> She don't she don't touch him at all.
50:50>> Whenever she woke up, was that before
50:52you put him in the tub?
50:53>> You know what I'm saying? It was Yeah,
50:54it was before I put him in the tub, but
50:56she went back to sleep.
50:58>> So, I woke up afterwards. After.
51:00>> So, when you were popping in this
51:02morning, is that when he got got it on
51:03his head? I only think he got it from in
51:06the tub because he didn't have it when I
51:07was picking him up, putting him in the
51:09tub. I I I
51:11>> So, was he kind of acting was Was he
51:13acting like like you know I say when I
51:15say lethargic, do you know what I mean?
51:16>> Like drunk
51:17>> like drunk like kind of like out of it
51:19>> like couldn't like really
51:20>> Was that was he acting that way last
51:22night too?
51:23>> Not really even last night he was like
51:27acting to the point where like he he
51:29don't want me to whoop him and he don't
51:31want to stand up. He basically want to
51:32go to sleep. So I'm like, "All right."
51:35So when I stopped whooping him, I just
51:38let I just made him stand up to the
51:40point where like I see him going to
51:42sleep standing up. So I let him go
51:44sleep. That's when we woke up this
51:46morning. I just You know what I'm
51:48saying? Basically tried it all over
51:50again. I tried to make him eat again.
51:51>> But was he acting like that when you put
51:54him in the tub? Was he acting lethargic
51:56like like when you put him in?
51:58>> That's how it kind of was. When I put
52:00when I sat him in there, he was kind of
52:02trying to slump over lay down,
52:04>> but he wasn't really laying down. He was
52:06still kind of standing.
52:07>> Why did you leave him in there by
52:09himself then? If he's falling over, put
52:12him in water.
52:13>> I really I really didn't think I really
52:15didn't think he was just going to fall
52:18out into some water.
52:20>> I thought he was treating like he wants
52:22to lay down. I mean, he's two. You're I
52:24mean, you're treating this baby like he
52:27knows what he's doing. And like he
52:30understands you, you know? I mean, if
52:33he's want to slump over and stuff, why
52:36would you leave him in that tub alone?
52:41>> I just I just want I just put him in the
52:43tub.
52:44>> Okay. And when
52:45>> And then you left him in there to die.
52:46>> Yeah.
52:48>> Listen, man.
52:49>> You think I left him in there?
52:50>> You killed your son. You beat your son
52:52to death and all this. You You're You're
52:54not being truthful. You're saying, "Oh,
52:56I didn't see I've seen the blood in the
52:57diaper. I don't care if it's freaking
52:59pitch black dye. You can't miss it. Yes,
53:01you can. You're you're lying. What
53:02you're doing is lying right now. Dude,
53:04you have not shed one tear for your son
53:06and you're going to sit there and like I
53:08couldn't see it. I didn't know what was
53:10happening. That's ridiculous. I'm going
53:12to go shed a tear for your son cuz
53:14obviously you don't give a
53:19shed on me. I don't care.
53:21>> Well, that's the thing though, okay? Cuz
53:23right now
53:24>> I can't meet myself.
53:25>> Right now it's not you. who you need to
53:28be worried about it. It's It's the fact
53:30that you you killed your baby. You did.
53:36And you have other children that that
53:38could happen to. So, how did you let
53:40your anger get so much control over you
53:45that you beat him to death?
53:48How did you let that happen?
53:51And then you leave him in the bathtub
53:54and he falls over in the bathtub and
53:56goes up under the water. How long was he
53:58under the water?
53:59>> That's what I'm telling you. He wasn't
54:00under because I was watching. I wasn't
54:03like really like just looking at him. I
54:05I looked at TV like before I looked at
54:07TV. He was up enough to the point where
54:10he knocked on the door.
54:11>> Takes a second to
54:12>> That's That's exactly what I'm saying.
54:14and he making it seem like I left him
54:16when I didn't I didn't mean for him to
54:18die when when when I looked at Chief and
54:21I looked back and I didn't see him.
54:22That's what made me run in there cuz it
54:24didn't like cuz like dead weight falling
54:26into water. You can hear it splash. It
54:28didn't splash.
54:28>> Well, just like if he would have fallen
54:30and hit his head, you would have heard
54:31the thud,
54:32>> but you haven't told us anything about
54:34having heard the thud when he hit his
54:37head.
54:37>> So, how did how did he get that?
54:41>> Well, I really do not know. I don't
54:43know. I literally do not know cuz he
54:46didn't fall. None of the times I beat
54:48him when I was whooping him in the womb,
54:49he didn't fall and hit his head on
54:51anything because if he did, I wouldn't
54:52even whoop. I wouldn't even put him in
54:54the tub if he would have hit his head
54:56cuz my mama always told me
54:57>> you saw those pictures. That's not a
55:00whooping. That is not a spanking at all.
55:04That's not even okay to be on a 10, 12
55:07year old. That is not a spanking.
55:11That is you losing control.
55:15That's what that is.
55:18All because he wouldn't eat.
55:21And he doesn't eat because he doesn't
55:23know you. He doesn't understand. If his
55:26mama feeds him chips all the time,
55:29that's what he thinks he's supposed to
55:30eat all the time. So, how did you let
55:33your anger get that much of you?
55:38No, cuz I only use
55:41>> Do you even remember how many times you
55:42hit him?
55:44>> Yeah, I I I count I count them out. I I
55:46literally count them out.
55:47>> Cuz your girlfriend said you were
55:49whipping the [ __ ] out of him so bad that
55:51she had to tell you to stop.
55:54Do you remember her telling you to stop?
55:57>> When she told him to stop, I stopped.
55:58>> And you know why she told you to stop?
56:00Cuz he stopped crying. He wasn't even
56:03responding anymore. And you want to know
56:04why? Because he was dying.
56:09Do you want to know why he boo booed all
56:11over himself?
56:13Because he was dying. That is what our
56:16body does when we die.
56:19It releases everything.
56:23When he went lethargic and started
56:26acting like that and started acting like
56:28he wanted to go to sleep, that was his
56:31body dying.
56:44I told you I I don't I don't think you
56:46meant to. The problem is you did it.
56:50Whether you meant to or not, you did it,
56:53you know, and it's nobody else's fault
56:55but yours.
56:59So,
57:06did you hit him in the head?
57:09>> Did you stick him under the water?
57:11>> No.
57:14>> Why is y'all ask me that? Like I
57:15>> Because we have to listen. Look at me.
57:18Okay. Look at me. Your baby's dead and
57:21we have to figure out why.
57:24you're responsible for it. We have to
57:26figure out why. So, yes, I have to ask
57:29you those questions. You know, you you
57:32took your child as he was dying and you
57:34put him in a bathtub.
57:36Why?
57:38>> It was just a boo at any time that my
57:41daughter's boo boo that my daughter his
57:43daughter.
57:45That's the only that's the only thing
57:47that I was thinking just to put him in
57:50>> and his butt is so raw. You You're
57:53trying to tell me you didn't see that?
57:55You didn't notice that?
57:57>> I didn't look at his butt. I really
57:59>> But he's too He can't clean his own
58:01butt. He doesn't know how to clean his
58:04butt.
58:07I mean, do you look at me? Do you
58:08understand that? He don't know how to
58:10clean himself. Even in a bathtub, he
58:13don't know. He knows how to sit in the
58:14water and play. He's two.
58:19>> My daughter daughter be doing it. So I I
58:22>> But your daughter was raised different
58:23than than and that's why I asked you
58:25earlier. He didn't your your daughter
58:27was taught different things. You can't
58:29compare him to her because she might be
58:32a little more advanced than him. If he's
58:35used to his mama washing his butt, he
58:37that's what he expects you to do.
58:41And most two-year-olds don't know how to
58:43wash their own butt. Most two-year-olds
58:46don't know how to wipe their own butt.
58:51But you can't tell me that you didn't
58:52notice all that bruising.
58:56>> Is that why your girlfriend was afraid?
58:59>> I know. Cuz she only woke up to the
59:01point where she saw me be man. She just
59:03told me to stop.
59:04>> Yeah, cuz you were a little out of
59:06control.
59:07That's why.
59:15>> I'll be back with you in a few. Okay.
59:17But you need to think about how he hurt
59:20his head and and tell the truth about it
59:23cuz at this point it is what it is. You
59:25know, you can't bring him back. You
59:28can't withhold something and and that's
59:31not going to fix anything. Okay?
59:34I mean,
59:36you killed your own son and there's
59:39nothing you can do at this point to
59:40change it. The only thing you can do is
59:43own up to it and tell us the truth about
59:46exactly how it happened.
59:52>> So, did you hit his head? Do you
59:55remember? Do you remember hitting his
59:57head?
59:58>> I remember I remember every every how
1:00:02which way I whooped him. It's no way in
1:00:06me that I'm gonna really, you know, like
1:00:09draw back and punch a child or hit a
1:00:12child. You
1:00:12>> could have hit him with a flip-flop in
1:00:13the head. I'm not saying you punched
1:00:15him. I'm not saying
1:00:16>> that's what I'm saying. I'm not that
1:00:17type of person to even do that either.
1:00:20>> I'm not going to jump back and hit no
1:00:21child in the head.
1:00:23>> They're moving and squirming and trying
1:00:25to get I mean, trust me, this I mean,
1:00:27you're
1:00:28>> to the point where I'm only going to hit
1:00:30his butt, but he was turning over. So, I
1:00:33kind of hit his legs. I remember me
1:00:35hitting his legs.
1:00:36>> Okay. Do you remember hitting him in the
1:00:37side of the head?
1:00:38>> No, I didn't hit him in the side of the
1:00:40head.
1:00:41>> You want to see his ear? You remember
1:00:43hitting him in the side of the head?
1:00:47You remember hitting him in the chest?
1:00:52There's his ear
1:00:54where he was hitting the side of the
1:00:55head.
1:00:57Okay.
1:01:01Here's the front of him where he was hit
1:01:04where the bruising started coming
1:01:06between his legs.
1:01:08Okay. Here's his neck where he was hit
1:01:12in the chest.
1:01:15Okay. I mean, if you don't remember how
1:01:19much control you lost, then that's a
1:01:21different story than saying that you
1:01:23didn't lose control.
1:01:33So, I'mma let you think about it for a
1:01:35minute, okay? And I'll be back with you.
1:01:39But for his sake, you need to be honest
1:01:41because his mama is going to want some
1:01:43answers. She's going to want to know how
1:01:46this happened and why it happened.
1:01:50Okay.
1:02:07Okay. And I do have to lock this door.
1:02:09Okay.
1:02:33I can't believe it. I just can't believe
1:02:36I
1:02:38I can't believe.
1:02:41And we got two little girls. I never
1:02:43would have thought, man.
1:02:46Oh my god. Oh my god.
1:02:49Oh my god. Oh my god. I can't.
1:02:53This [ __ ] is crazy, man.
1:03:00I can't with you.
1:03:08Oh my god. I just I can't even talk. I
1:03:11don't know. I don't even
1:03:15I don't even know.
1:04:12I don't I don't see I don't know, man.
1:04:15Cuz this [ __ ] is crazy, man. This [ __ ]
1:04:17is crazy. I don't know.
1:04:35>> I'm saying I just can't see you beating
1:04:38him to death.
1:04:40That's
1:04:55I did not I did not say that. I did not
1:04:57say that you beat him. Cuz why would I
1:04:58say that you beat him? You did not beat
1:05:00him. I when I seen you beat him like
1:05:02that.
1:05:04That's crazy.
1:05:22I'm trying to see if you can get to
1:05:26try you.
1:05:51Thank you.
1:06:31Damn. They trying to [ __ ]
1:06:51Just
1:07:20Get hungry.
1:07:22This [ __ ] unbelievable.
1:08:05cuz she's
1:08:17perfect.
1:08:43Good morning.
1:08:56All
1:08:58[Music]
1:09:01right. You ready?
1:09:02>> Yeah.
1:09:53Hey man, you want XL or 2XL?
1:10:01>> Just going to need to take some pictures
1:10:02of you. We don't fix. I got some stuff
1:10:04we can change.
1:10:13>> Why did you
1:10:16just overall giving some closeup. So
1:10:18I'll
1:10:20start
1:10:25pictures of your hands
1:10:44that way.
1:10:56Okay. Back.
1:11:12All right. Turn your light. Excuse
1:11:24me. Over to your hands. Just hold on for
1:11:28me. Can you lift your pull your sleeves
1:11:31a little bit?
1:12:01Thumbs up for
1:12:17you.
1:12:38This number
1:13:37All
1:13:42right.
1:13:43>> That's it.
1:13:46Y
1:13:53put your um shirt in there.
1:14:19[Music]
1:14:22bag.
1:14:24>> Yeah. Oh, hang on. Step back.
1:14:30>> Yeah. Just do shoes, too.
1:14:34Go ahead and
1:14:36take your pants off. Are you going to
1:14:37put those pants on?
1:14:44You wearing boxes or anything?
1:14:46>> No.
1:15:28shoes.
1:15:29>> We're going to put your shoes in one bag
1:15:31and your pants in the other. And then I
1:15:32got you some slides.
1:15:46All
1:15:51right, give me a few more minutes.
1:15:54Right.
1:16:13Okay.
1:16:16doing the paperwork right now. You're
1:16:18getting ready to go to jail, okay? You
1:16:21know, you had the two warrants, okay,
1:16:22which are unrelated to this, but in
1:16:25reference to this case, you're going to
1:16:26be charged with aggravated child abuse
1:16:29and aggravated child neglect for now.
1:16:31Okay?
1:16:33You may have additional charges pending.
1:16:36Okay? Once the autopsy is done tomorrow
1:16:38and we know the actual cause of death,
1:16:39you might get hit with a murder charge.
1:16:42Okay?
1:16:44So, as soon as I'm done with the
1:16:46paperwork, we'll get you over to the
1:16:47jail. All right.
1:17:02Following the interrogation, key
1:17:04developments emerged regarding Darien
1:17:06Head's legal outcome. After the medical
1:17:09examiner ruled Amari Barnhill's death, a
1:17:11homicide from blunt force trauma, had
1:17:13faced murder charges, court records
1:17:15confirmed that he pleaded guilty to
1:17:17seconddegree murder, accepting legal
1:17:19responsibility for the child's death.
1:17:21Prosecutors and the defense presented
1:17:23evidence and arguments based on the same
1:17:25forensic review and witness accounts
1:17:27introduced during the investigation and
1:17:29interrogation. No additional suspects
1:17:32were identified. Head remained the sole
1:17:34individual charged in connection to
1:17:36Amari's death. In court proceedings,
1:17:38Head's plea led directly to a fixed
1:17:41prison term. The judicial record shows
1:17:43that he was sentenced to 25 years in
1:17:45state prison, a sentencing outcome
1:17:47issued after his guilty plea to
1:17:49seconddegree murder. No further criminal
1:17:52proceedings involving other individuals
1:17:54occurred. With the plea and sentencing
1:17:56resulting from the body of evidence
1:17:58presented, including injuries
1:18:00inconsistent with accidental harm, the
1:18:02case reached its legal resolution. The
1:18:05documented outcome underscores how the
1:18:07interrogation and prosecution efforts
1:18:09formed the foundation of the case's
1:18:11conclusion. The legal process now rests
1:18:13on that plea, the physical evidence, and
1:18:16witness statements recorded through
1:18:17investigation and interrogation.
1:18:20In the aftermath, the child's mother,
1:18:22Nikisa Barnhill, has become an advocate
1:18:24for victim's rights and maternal grief
1:18:26awareness. She later self-published the
1:18:29act of philicide, the Amari Barnhill
1:18:31story, sharing her son's brief life and
1:18:33the pain of his loss. If you found this
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1:18:39channel, as it really helps support our
1:18:41work and allows us to continue covering
1:18:43important stories like this one. Thank
1:18:44you.

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