The Tragic Torture of Ty’Shawn Brumfield: Toddler fighting for life after deranged babysitter attack
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BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA: A toddler has been put on ventilator after being allegedly abused and tortured by his babysitter, who is also his mother’s friend. Ty’Shawn Brumfield was “manhandle[d], beaten, and burned with cigarettes,” a GoFundMe by the child’s grandmother Apostle Shelia Wilson stated.
Howard Youngblood has been accused of abusing Ty'Shawn while he was babysitting the 22-month-old. Apparently, the 36-year-old alleged abuser claimed that the little one was injured after he fell on the stairs. But the doctor who checked Ty’Shawn on December 15 discovered that “the victim’s injuries were extensive and were in no way consistent with a fall.”
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WAFB reported that the doctor also found that the baby “had bleeds inside his head, which was causing swelling that was causing, or had possibly already caused, brain damage.” The boy’s grandmother reportedly said, “They (doctors) told me that it’s brain damage. He (TyShawn) suffered what they call forced blunt trauma to the head. And right now, even though we have all these other things with his bones in his back and stuff being broken and other things, the primary concern is that head injury.”
She continued, “I’m hurt, I’m angry, I’m angry. And I know that in the process of time, everything will be cleared up and the individual responsible for this, the court system is designed to deal with him according to the process. I want to be able in a little while to hold my grandson. You know what I’m saying, I want to put my arms around him, because every time they touch him, when the nurses and the doctors touch him, he jumps and his heart rate go so high, because he thinks something is happening bad to him.”
Calling Ty’Shawn “quiet spirited”, Wilson shared, “I want to be able to hold him and let him know, I love you and there is love, you know. I want him to know that you are not never going to go through this pain here no more. That’s what I want him to know. I want him to know that he won't have to go through this kind of pain ever again in life.”
She added, “That’s all I want to do, I want to show him some love. I just want to hold him and rock him and let him know it’s going to get better. It’s going to get better, it’s going to get better. He needs to know it’s going to get better. Because that was very wrong, that was very wrong. And right now my grandbaby needs love, after being beaten and tortured like he’s been beaten and tortured. The only thing you could do through this is love him back. He needs love and prayer.”
Meanwhile, Youngblood has been taken into custody and pressed with a charge of second-degree cruelty to juveniles. He is currently held at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and his bond is set at $150,000.