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By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald
9:43 AM EDT, August 5, 2010
A man accused of beating his 2-year-old son unconscious, and claimed he was trying to teach the toddler to box, was ordered held without bail Wednesday.
Lee Willie DeJesus, 23, will remain in a Miami-Dade County jail. He is accused of hitting his son, Willy Brown, about 15 times Monday at their Homestead apartment, in the 300 block of Southwest Fourth Avenue.
<span style="font-weight: bold">With the toddler on a bed, DeJesus punched him in the face, head, torso and shoulders,</span> according to Miami-Dade police.
DeJesus then waited — possibly as long as an hour — before calling 911, according to an arrest affidavit. The attack took place while the boy's mother was at work, the affidavit said.
The boy's family told WFOR-Ch. 4 Wednesday that the child was brain-dead but being kept on life-support so his organs could be donated.
DeJesus' account of the night was detailed in an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.
Police were called to the apartment shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday. DeJesus told them that he came home and found the boy unresponsive on the bed, according to the report.
He tried to blame a baby sitter.
Investigators took DeJesus to the homicide bureau and interviewed him again. He waived his Miranda rights and changed his story, the affidavit said.
DeJesus had been watching the boy while the child's mother was at work.
<span style="font-weight: bold">"The defendant was teaching the victim to box and the defendant placed 16-ounce boxing gloves on his fists," the arrest affidavit said. "The defendant then punched the victim approximately 15 times to his face, head, torso and shoulders."</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">The "boxing" lasted about 15 minutes, the affidavit said. The boy stayed on the bed until he was knocked off, striking his head against a bedroom wall and a tile floor, the affidavit said.</span>
The boy became unresponsive. DeJesus picked him up and put him back on the bed. He realized the boy might be having a seizure.
Still, DeJesus waited. The affidavit said DeJesus waited 30 minutes to an hour before he called 911.
DeJesus has been arrested several times before in Miami-Dade County, according to court records, with his most serious conviction for marijuana possession in 2007.
DeJesus' mother, Maria DeJesus, told WFOR-Ch. 4 that she didn't think her son was capable of such an attack on the boy.
"No, I don't think. He might be capable of beating her [the boy's mother], but they always go at it, but then she goes right back to him," Maria DeJesus told WFOR-Ch. 4. "And if he did, he knows I love him. He knows what time it is. He knows he's got to suffer with the consequences."</span>
By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald
9:43 AM EDT, August 5, 2010
A man accused of beating his 2-year-old son unconscious, and claimed he was trying to teach the toddler to box, was ordered held without bail Wednesday.
Lee Willie DeJesus, 23, will remain in a Miami-Dade County jail. He is accused of hitting his son, Willy Brown, about 15 times Monday at their Homestead apartment, in the 300 block of Southwest Fourth Avenue.
<span style="font-weight: bold">With the toddler on a bed, DeJesus punched him in the face, head, torso and shoulders,</span> according to Miami-Dade police.
DeJesus then waited — possibly as long as an hour — before calling 911, according to an arrest affidavit. The attack took place while the boy's mother was at work, the affidavit said.
The boy's family told WFOR-Ch. 4 Wednesday that the child was brain-dead but being kept on life-support so his organs could be donated.
DeJesus' account of the night was detailed in an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.
Police were called to the apartment shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday. DeJesus told them that he came home and found the boy unresponsive on the bed, according to the report.
He tried to blame a baby sitter.
Investigators took DeJesus to the homicide bureau and interviewed him again. He waived his Miranda rights and changed his story, the affidavit said.
DeJesus had been watching the boy while the child's mother was at work.
<span style="font-weight: bold">"The defendant was teaching the victim to box and the defendant placed 16-ounce boxing gloves on his fists," the arrest affidavit said. "The defendant then punched the victim approximately 15 times to his face, head, torso and shoulders."</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">The "boxing" lasted about 15 minutes, the affidavit said. The boy stayed on the bed until he was knocked off, striking his head against a bedroom wall and a tile floor, the affidavit said.</span>
The boy became unresponsive. DeJesus picked him up and put him back on the bed. He realized the boy might be having a seizure.
Still, DeJesus waited. The affidavit said DeJesus waited 30 minutes to an hour before he called 911.
DeJesus has been arrested several times before in Miami-Dade County, according to court records, with his most serious conviction for marijuana possession in 2007.
DeJesus' mother, Maria DeJesus, told WFOR-Ch. 4 that she didn't think her son was capable of such an attack on the boy.
"No, I don't think. He might be capable of beating her [the boy's mother], but they always go at it, but then she goes right back to him," Maria DeJesus told WFOR-Ch. 4. "And if he did, he knows I love him. He knows what time it is. He knows he's got to suffer with the consequences."</span>
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