I mostly just want everyone to see the man’s face, and send their prayers for a speedy and unexpected death. I’d hate for Mr. Hayes to get an opportunity to repent his crime and get saved… only eternal damnation can pay for something like this. Having little boys myself, and knowing little boys, and how they make irritating but innocent mistakes, i just can’t imagine how i could ever bring someone like this to “justice,” were i the arresting officer. i guess that’s why i opted against a career in LE.
(CNN) – A Michigan man could face life in prison after he allegedly tortured and ultimately killed his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son last week for wetting his pants, prosecutors say.
Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, 24, “systematically beat” Dominick Calhoun, 4, “pummeling [him] with fists and kicking him” on his arms, legs and genitalia, Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton told CNN.
Hayes also apparently burned the boy in the course of the torture. “The knuckles across one hand were charred,” Argentine Township police chief Dan Allen said.
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and this is the worst case of child abuse I’ve ever seen,” the police chief said. “In all respects, he was tortured.”
Prosecutors arraigned Hayes on Thursday on nine charges, including one count of first-degree premeditated murder, one count of first-degree child abuse and one count of torture, which by itself carries a possible life sentence.
“Little Dominick met his boogeyman, and that was defendant Hayes,” Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell said at a news conference Thursday.
CNN was unable to reach someone who could speak on Hayes’ behalf.
Hayes’ motivation for his savage multiday attack on the boy was that the child “had wet his pants,” Leyton said. “It had happened before.”
Hayes also resented the child because his “biological father wouldn’t pay child support,” Leyton said.
Dominick’s mother, Corrine Baker, was present for at least some of the beating and tried to shield the boy from Hayes’ aggression, authorities said.
“She tried to lay on top of the child to guard the child against being beat any further, but she was beat in the process,” according to the police chief.
The sequence of events that led to the discovery of the abuse began when Baker’s sister and several acquaintances came to the apartment to buy drugs from Hayes, according to Allen. After seeing Dominick’s condition, the sister alerted the boy’s paternal grandfather, who in turn contacted authorities.
When emergency responders entered the apartment on the afternoon of April 11, Dominick was “barely alive.” EMS transferred him to Hurley Hospital in Flint, where he was pronounced brain dead.
The boy was taken off life support the following morning.
Dominick’s mother’s whereabouts and actions through all portions of the torture session remain somewhat hazy. The county prosecutor said his office is “still investigating her involvement in all this.”
“She’s also culpable for putting him in the dangerous position in the first place,” he added.
Baker was taken into custody on Sunday but released later. Attempts to reach her at her home Thursday evening were unsuccessful.
The town police chief said Baker and her son had been brought to the attention of Genesee County Department of Child Services on several occasions. The agency did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment Thursday.
It was not immediately clear whether Baker’s involvement with the child services agency predated her relationship with Hayes. The police chief said he believed Baker and Hayes had been together for about six months.
if so, i’m glad im not hearing about them. crimes against children really, really upset me- i’d rather not read about them at all. this one just happened to pop up on me, and i felt compelled to help spread word of the man’s demonic deeds. he’s worthy of real hatred.
I hear ya brother. I have a 2 year old son. I’d like to let him piss all over that bastard right before I threw the switch.
The arresting officer is a better man than me…
That dumb cunt who gave birth to that little boy should be hung as well. Having her child around a drug dealer who beat him to death over the course of several days is sickening! She would receive no pity from me and deserves to be buried along with that sadistic fuck.
I was also kicked in the gut by this one earlier. There are no words.
If nothing else, it certainly does make one wonder if perhaps the Lord gave us life but is limited to intervene, especially so spontaneously. Maybe with prayer, but incidents like this can’t be explained via any Divine logic.
If it makes anyone feel any better, the man that made national headlines by raping an 11 year old in Philly last year, who was later then attacked by a mob in the street that recognized him before his arrest, was beaten into a coma in prison by the staff for whatever reason this week.
My dad works at a maximum security prison in Texas. He’s said in the past that that those who have abused children need to be separated from general population… May God have mercy on the little one who’s life was cut short.
I’m sure the officers involved will put in a good word with his fellow inmates. I smile knowing this guy will likely get violently and anally violated in prison.
My weakness also. So many people would do anything to have kids of their own. No punishment in this world can make up for how that little boy suffered and died.
This ruined my day.
I am going to give my little ones an extra big hug when I get home.
There are so many people who want , but cant have children that would have cherished that little boy. I am sick in the stomache reading it. I hope that piece of shit suffers horribly every day he has left on this earth before he rots in hell.
