A child is dead, and it sounds like it could have been prevented. Because just days beforehand a judge ordered her returned to her allegedly abusive parents.
On September 20, 1-year-old Ella Vitalis sadly passed away at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn — just five days after her parents called emergency services claiming she’d sustained injuries while feeding. Related: Charlotte Sena’s Alleged Kidnapper’s SON Speaks Out Following Arrest! The child was seen by doctors, who, according to court docs obtained by the New York Times, determined she had blunt-force injuries on her head, bruising and cuts on her forehead, and swollen eyelids, in addition to other injuries which were described as a broken jaw and, according to the outlet, bite marks.
BITE MARKS?! WTF?! The infant’s mother, Lafayette Browne, 29, allegedly told law enforcement her daughter began choking while her father, Johnson Vitalis, 28, fed her milk, and that was how she got the injuries — but we’ve certainly never heard of such brutal results from drinking milk… Sadly, after five days of fighting in the hospital, the little one lost her life.
But the thing is, this could have all been avoided. You see, last year, Ella and her older brother Liam, 2, were taken away from Lafayette and Johnson, after a similar incident.
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