Original Blog Entry: Tot fatally injured 'over his ABCs'

truesee — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:37:15 GMT

Tot killed 'over his ABCs' in B'klyn

LARRY CELONA, JOE WALKER and SABRINA FORD

Last Updated: 8:00 AM, September 26, 2010

Posted: 2:43 AM, September 26, 2010

A Brooklyn toddler who had trouble reciting his ABCs was pummeled to death by his mother's abusive boyfriend in an attack so horrific it left the walls spattered with blood, police sources said.

Aiyden Davis, who would have turned 3 next month, had previously been beaten by his mother, Theresa Davis, 27, who whipped him with a belt, the sources said.

She and her boyfriend, Reggie Williams, 31, allegedly told cops they would hit the boy if he acted up, cried or wouldn't eat.

The tot, who had old and new bruises on his face, legs and back, died of blunt impact injuries to his head, torso and extremities around 10:30 p.m. Friday, shortly after he was found battered in his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. He also had a lacerated liver and internal bleeding.

Theodore Parisienne

INNOCENT VICTIM: A day after the death of Aiyden Davis, 2, his devastated aunt, Pamela, is comforted in Brooklyn.

He was very lovable, said Aiyden's devastated aunt, Pamela Davis. I'm looking at all his toys, his scooter, he was very loved.

Williams was charged with murder in Friday's attack. Theresa Davis was charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and weapons possession for the prior assaults, the sources said.

Williams was trusted to baby-sit Aiyden for the first time Friday -- and allegedly became violent with the boy just because he had trouble reciting the alphabet.

He was like, 'I just spanked him because he was messing up his ABCs,' said Pamela, 44, recalling the second of three check-up calls she made at 6:45 p.m.

Pamela, who usually watched the boy while his mother worked as a security guard, was worried because I didn't hear him in the background.

Normally, he's yelling, 'Auntie!' because he wants to get on the phone with me.

When she called again at 8:45 p.m., Williams -- known on the streets at Reggie 101 -- mysteriously blubbered: I'm so sorry, P., I'm so sorry, but gave no reason for the apology.

Now I understand why he was saying that, said the devastated aunt.

I hope they give him life, she said of Williams. I'm going to be in court every time they tell me he's in court.

Pamela Davis, who lives in Harlem, said Aiyden told her last weekend: Reggie hit me and mama. Theresa Davis denied it.

I would ask, 'Is he abusing you?' And she would say, 'No, no, everything's fine,' Pamela said. She didn't want to face the truth.

It's my fault -- I should have made her bring him to me, she said. I didn't baby-sit him one day in two years, and now he's dead.

Aiyden was found breathing but not responsive at 9:50 p.m., when a man called 911 asking for help, police said. The child was throwing up when EMS arrived, the sources said.

Crime-scene investigators spent yesterday combing through the apartment, where Williams had just moved in.

A neighbor said she frequently heard Williams yelling at the boy.

He was always screaming at him and cursing, said neighbor Nikcole Palmer, 34. He was bad news.

Davis said her niece had a clean record and had previously spent about a year in a battered-woman's shelter.

An Administration for Children's Services spokesman said Theresa Davis had no history with the agency.

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