Toddler, 3, found dead in pool of his own vomit ‘after being beaten by evil foster mother who claimed he fell’
A TODDLER was found dead in a pool of his own vomit after being beaten by his evil foster mother, police say.
Chasity Alcosiba, 45, was this week charged with second-degree murder over the death of three-year-old Fabian Garcia in Hawaii.
Horrified first responders found little Fabian face down on his bed at Alcosiba’s home on July 25, 2017.
He was rushed to North Hawaii Community Hospital but was pronounced dead less than an hour later.
Tests found he had suffered non-accidental blunt force trauma to the head, according to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
Tragic Fabian – who was put in Alcosiba’s care along with his younger siblings – also had “various stages of bruising” on his head, neck and body.
VIOLENTLY SICK
And paramedics found he had “copious amounts of brown-color food-type vomitus in his throat” – suggesting he had been violently sick.
Fabian’s biological parents, Sherri-Ann Garett and Juben Garcia, had filed a lawsuit against Alcosiba and state authorities over the child’s death.
According to the lawsuit, medics “immediately suspected Fabian was a victim of child abuse.”
He had suffered cuts and bruises to his face as well as subconjunctival hemorrhages in both eyes – meaning the interior blood vessels had broken as the result of head trauma.
It is unclear why the toddler and his siblings had been placed in foster care.
CLAIMED HE FELL
Alcosiba had told cops Fabian’s injuries were caused by a fall from a work bench two weeks earlier, the family’s lawsuit claimed.
But she later changed her story to allege Fabian fell while wearing virtual reality goggles on the day he was found.
The family claimed Fabian had been subjected to long term brutal abuse.
Part of the lawsuit read: “Fabian’s death followed months of visible injuries on Fabian and his younger siblings and numerous notifications of suspected child abuse by Fabian’s parents to defendant State of Hawaii’s social workers.”
Police have now charged Alcosiba over the child’s death – meaning she now faces the threat of prison as well as the potential consequences of the civil lawsuit.
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Jeffrey Foster, the family’s attorney, told Hawaii News Now: “For the last two and a half years, the Garett-Garcia family has been stuck in a purgatory, waiting for Fabian’s killer to be held legally accountable for Fabian’s death.
“While the legal charges for the foster mother confirm the family’s worst fears, it also serves as an indictment for the foster care system on Hawaii Island.”
Alcosiba was being held on $10,000 bail ahead of her trial, scheduled for January 7, 2020.