GUILTY NY - Kymel Oram, 17 mos, beaten to death, Brooklyn, 17 March 2011

2goldfish said:

I dont understand? it's foster care, if you find you cant handle it, should you not just call up and tell social services that you cant? why would you keep and abuse an already harmed child?

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If only Tejada had called 911 to report 17-month-old Kymell Oram was being repeatedly locked out of his foster mother's apartment until he cried himself out and stopped banging his head against the metal door.

At the very least, the police would have notified the Administration for Children's Services and given it cause to reconsider its recent determination that 32-year-old Teyuanna Cummings was a suitable foster mom.

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The cops arrived at the apartment on Brooklyn's Fountain Ave. to find that the child had been savagely battered. Cummings told police she had left him in the care of her boyfriend, Kysheen Oliver, known as "Killer," while she walked another foster child and her daughter to school.

Cummings said she returned to find that Killer had dressed the boy and changed the sheets in the crib, not exactly Killer's usual MO. She said she then noticed that Kymell was spitting up blood.

Early Saturday afternoon, Killer surrendered at the 75th Precinct stationhouse. Anybody called Killer is almost certainly a total punk who will try to pin it on Cummings.

Cummings was apparently in her apartment, declining to respond to knocks on the door where Kymell was repeatedly seen to bang his head. The door did open for a man who announced himself as Doug.

As he entered, a well groomed lapdog greeted him, neither growling nor cringing in the way of an abused pooch as he reached down to pet it. A dog in this household seems to fare better than a toddler.

"How's the baby?" Doug could be heard asking. The next door neighbor, Tejada, had been in her apartment earlier in the day. A teen who was apparently her son answered a knock and told me the family had nothing to say.

"We don't want to talk," he said.

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"Sorry," the father said.

He clearly meant he was sorry they could not talk. She had changed her story after the cops spoke to her and perhaps they had since advised her not to speak at all. Or, it might have been the fresh graffiti somebody had scrawled on their door. An "8" above "IIICE" above "CGE," by one law enforcement official's guess gang code for the enforcer of the 83 Crips. Maybe some of Killer's pals were trying to send the Tejadas a message

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The city medical examiner's office says 17-month-old Kymell Oram died in a hospital on March 28. He was hospitalized on March 17 with blunt force injuries, cuts, broken ribs and damage to his lungs.

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peeples said:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_...this_door_17moold_nearly_beaten_to_death.html

The apartment was in okay shape and there was food in the refrigerator," a police source said. "Apparently that's all they look at."

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“In March 2011 she [Cummings] had suicidal thoughts because her ex-boyfriend killed her 17- month-old-son,” a prosecutor said.

The prosecutor read reports alleging that Cummings was the victim of emotional abuse by Oliver when he killed her son; she also had post traumatic stress, anxiety, depression and blurred vision for two years.

Cummings was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and other unspecified bipolar ailments in June 2014 by a psychiatrist affiliated with Lutherin hospital, according to the prosecution.

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A Brooklyn man was convicted Friday for the death of his girlfriend’s 17-month-old foster son - but can be freed in a matter of months after jurors decided he meant no harm.

The jury found Kysheen Oliver, 23, guilty of second-degree manslaughter for recklessly killing little Kymel Oram in March 2011, but cleared him of more serious charges, including murder.

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