Police use shocking home video to charge Florida mother after 4-year-old boy she adopted dies from internal injuries

A Florida mother caught on video throwing her adopted 4-year-old son right into a swimming pool together with his hands tied behind his back has now been charged with the boy’s murder.

Detectives arrested Patricia Saintizaire, 36, and charged her with first-degree murder, child abuse and witness tampering in reference to the death of four-year-old Bryan Boyer, whom she adopted from Haiti last yr.

Bryan died last week after being hospitalized for serious injuries related to abdominal bleeding that failed to heal during surgery.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office released a timeline of the events leading to his death.

On May 1, investigators said the boy returned home from school “happy and acting normally, with no injuries.” Surveillance videos from his school and bus, in addition to interviews with people he got here into contact with, confirmed his physical and emotional condition that day.

His 16-year-old brother, who was also adopted from Haiti, he told detectives he didn’t see or hear anything happening to his younger brother because he went to one other room after Bryan returned from school.

After two hours, Saintizaire told him to bring Bryan some food. He stated that Bryan couldn’t walk and had difficulty sitting up on his own. The affidavit says Bryan also vomited thrice and started “visibly shaking.”

Saintizaire said he was “faking it,” but Bryan became unresponsive. His older brother tried to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but Saintizaire ultimately decided to take him to the hospital.

Bryan was first hospitalized in Davenport, but his wounds were so severe that he had to be airlifted to one other hospital in Orlando, where he died.

Hospital staff notified deputies on May 2 that the kid had died under suspicious circumstances. On May 3, his body was transported to the forensic medicine facility for an autopsy.

The medical expert found scars on Bryan’s back, in addition to fresh scars that had developed while he was living in America, including a deep laceration brought on by targeted blunt force trauma.

Bryan also suffered liver damage that caused his health to rapidly decline. Bruises were also found on his legs and arms.

The medical expert determined that each one injuries were the results of sustained abuse and concluded that the 4-year-old died from assault/blunt force trauma. His manner of death was ruled a homicide.

“What we learned during this investigation is simply gut-wrenching,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference. published on Facebook. “It is beyond my wildest imagination that anyone could abuse a beautiful baby boy the way this child was abused and neglected.”

Saintizaire’s husband, Rene, told investigators that his wife followed the foundations of discipline at home, but Saintizaire repeatedly said that she never resorted to physical violence as a type of punishment.

However, during a forensic examination of Saintizaire’s phone, detectives found two home surveillance videos showing him actively hitting Bryan with an unknown object while he lay motionless on the ground.

“We have another video clip of him lying face down on the floor and she’s slapping him on the back and he’s not even resisting it. It’s like a normal occurrence.”

Another video clip shows Saintizaire throwing him into the pool while his hands are tied.

“He’s dead because she beat him to death,” Judd said.

When questioned, Bryan’s older brother initially denied being a victim of violence or witnessing violence. After being placed in Child Services custody, he admitted that his mother told him “not to say anything so I wouldn’t get in trouble” and threatened to kill him with a gun.

Rene and Patricia Saintizaire adopted Bryan in April 2023 when he was 3 years old. Rene Saintizaire was at work when Bryan died and no charges have been filed against him presently.