Man tortured 4-year-old to death for wetting his pants

Police: Man tortured 4-year-old to death for wetting his pants

By Jason Kessler, CNN
April 15, 2010 10:20 p.m. EDT


This photo of Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, 24, is from a previous arrest.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, 24, arraigned on nine charges
• They include first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree child abuse, torture
• Police chief on 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun: "In all respects, he was tortured"
• Police still looking into role of Dominick's mother, Corrine Baker

(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.


May God have mercy on his sole, because at the moment I can't ....

 

what a pussy. beating on a kid that can't defend himself. I hope he gets was he deserves.

 

what a fucktard

 

i am not even gonna comment on that BS

 

I cant believe this 24 year old piece of shit. He deserves what he gets..... they better not place him in solitary confinement...... let the inmates handle this one....

 

im not even gonna say anything to this fucking bullshit. I can see this thread getting locked pretty quick.

 

That makes me sick, what a peice of shit. I hope he get ass raped every day and night in prison

 

There are some really messed up things in this world, but do we have to create a thread on TW for every piece of crap out there?

Thread should be locked or better yet deleted.

 

wow i couldnt even read that.

 

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Life in prison is such a waste of resources. Hell, I'll donate one .40 cal round. He can have it right between his eyes after he is drug behind a truck through a cactus patch

 

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Let's not get this one locked. People need to see this and react to it. Post away. My opinion, no lower possible scum than this on the face of the earth. The inmates are gonna take care this.

 

They should systematically rip him to pieces and feed him to dogs starting with his nuts I can't stand people that abuse children yes there are times where kids need a swift kick in the ass but this is way different he's 4 and your going to torture him over wetting his pants there should be a licence to reproduce

x3 on letting the inmates handle this

 

Unthinkable.

 

yes there should, but this wasnt his kid, it was his GF's. idk why she didnt call the fucking cops, she is guilty as far as i'm concerned

 

Fucking sick.

 

let me light him on fire and post the video online

 

The sad thing is this is happening way to often in this country. We had the same thing happen here in Gadsden about a year ago where the boyfriend of the mother beat the child to death. They put his body in the trunk and then called the authorities and said that the car was stolen with the child still in it alive. Turns out he beat the child to death over a bad grade on a test.

 

He won't last long in prison...


What a sick fuck.

 

no real way to describe my feelings towards what that son of a bitch has done.......damn.

 

Man....If someone beat me every time I wet my pants I'm be a hurting mo'fo.

This guy is trash...There was a similar case in my home town. Makes me sick...My kid gets on my nerves now and then...but beating or torturing is just sick.