Inside a closet without eating and for 17 hours of the 24 hours of the day. It is the punishment that Deshaun’s parents – 6 years old – and her brother imposed on the minors and that has ended with the death of the first. This situation occurred during the month of March 2020 in Arizona (USA). They didn’t even let them go to school. The reason is that the children go out at night and get food from the kitchen.

One of her neighbors claims that she “heard things” among which she mentions “screams and things like that” that sounded like “children crying.” In fact, she relates that she has seen “leave the house very rarely” to the child and on these rare occasions he assures that “he was very thin.” Something that is confirmed by the eight kilos he weighed, a weight typical of a baby of only six months. In fact, the autopsy has confirmed that he died of starvation.

The agent in charge of the investigation and sergeant of the Flagstaff police in Arizona, Charles M. Hernández, has stated that “the child was extremely malnourished” due to the abuse that ended his life. Her 7-year-old brother, on the other hand, managed to survive, although after spending three months in the hospital.

Deshaun’s mother pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse for which she was sentenced to life in prison last year, while his father has now been sentenced. Even her paternal grandmother, who was the one who notified the police when she saw that Deshaun was not reacting, also faces charges of mistreatment and child abuse. And this woman He dedicated himself to educating his grandchildren by hitting them with a coat rack.