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http://www.tcpalm.com/news/local-ne...charged-in-death-of-two-year-old-boy_57402608
Police charged Michael Beer, 47, of Port St. Lucie with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse Wednesday in the death of 2-year-old Trysten Eli Frank Adams.
Officials said Port St. Lucie Police and St. Lucie County Fire Rescue responded to a call at 2 p.m. on the 700 block of Southwest Myakka River Trace of an unresponsive 2-year-old child. The boy was taken to the hospital with no visible wounds and announced dead shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday.
An autopsy later from the St. Lucie County Medical Examiner ruled the death as a homicide after finding lacerations on Trystens liver, and internal bleeding and bruising caused by blunt force trauma, Port St. Lucie Police spokesman Master Sgt. Frank Sabol said.
http://www.wflx.com/story/26697032/foster-child-murdered-no-bond-set-for
Lt. Scott Beck says this isn't the first time Beer has been accused of hurting a child. "There was a case in 1993 in which Mr. Beer was a caretaker of a 2-year-old child in which it was alleged he caused substantial injury to that child," says Lt. Beck.
Beck said that case was in Palm Beach County and Beer wasn't charged. Port St. Lucie Police say the 2-year-old girl suffered a skull fracture, broken leg and several bruises. Beer told investigators he was unaware of the allegation.
http://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-...ng-answers-in-sons-death-while-in-foster-care
Elisa Benedito says she is going through rehab, and the boy's father, Hoyt Adams, is in jail.
Benedito says she was on track to regain custody of her kids at the end of the year. Police say the Beer family was taking care of Benedito's three children.