A Florida mother is behind bars facing multiple charges in the death of her 4-year-old son, whom she adopted from Haiti in April 2023, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Patricia Saintizaire, 36, is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and tampering with a witness in the death of Bryan Boyer, Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday.

“He’s dead because she beat him to death,” Judd said. “It is beyond my wildest imagination how anyone could abuse a beautiful little fella like this child was abused and neglected.”

Saintizaire also has a 16-year-old son she adopted from Haiti, who is now in protective custody.

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The sheriff’s office said it was notified by staff at Orlando Health Hospital on Thursday, May 2, of a 4-year-old boy who died “under what appeared to be suspicious circumstances” after a medical exam showed an abdominal bleed that couldn’t be fixed by emergency surgery.

The boy’s body was taken to the District 9 Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy, which was conducted the following day. The autopsy declared the child died from assault/blunt force trauma and ruled the manner of death as a homicide.

“What we have learned during this investigation just turns our stomachs,” Judd said.

The autopsy showed the little boy had old and new scarring on his back that would have occurred during his past year with Saintizaire in the United States. He also had a deep laceration on his liver, which would have affected him immediately and “caused a rapid decline” in his health, the sheriff’s office said.

While he had no broken or fractured bones, the autopsy showed bruising and hemorrhaging to his arms and legs. The medical examiner’s ultimate decision was that his injuries were consistent with ongoing abuse.

“We don’t believe we know all that this child suffered,” Judd said.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced charges against Patricia Saintizaire on Wednesday in the May 2 death of her 4-year-old son. (Polk County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook)

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Polk County homicide detectives learned the boy was initially taken to Heart of Florida hospital in Davenport, where the family lived, but was flown to Orlando Health because of his injuries. 

Saintizaire took him to the hospital at the request of her teenage son, who was performing CPR on the child at home beforehand, according to the PCSO. 

When detectives initially spoke with the 16-year-old, he told them he was not abused and never witnessed abuse, but once he was placed in protective custody, he said his adoptive mother told him to “say nothing so I don’t get in trouble.” He also said Saintizaire threatened to kill him with a gun, the sheriff’s office shared.

The teenager also told detectives he and his brother were physically disciplined with a belt and a homemade hitting device when they lived in Haiti before telling them what happened on May 1, the day before the 4-year-old was reported dead.

When the little boy got home from school that afternoon, he was “happy and behaving normally with no injuries,” the brother told detectives, which was confirmed in a review of bus and school cameras and by talking to those who interacted with him.

“Despite his abusive treatment, they said he was a happy child,” Judd said.

Bryan Boyer, 4, was adopted from Haiti by Patricia Saintizaire in 2023. (Polk County Sheriff’s Office via Fox 13 Tampa Bay)

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The teenager said he went to another room in the house for about two hours and did not see or hear what happened to his little brother, but noted that he was “unable to walk on his own and struggled to sit up on his own” when Saintizaire told him to take food to the child.

She allegedly told the teenager that the boy was “faking it” and to just feed him shortly before he became unresponsive, which is when he began performing CPR and insisted they needed to go to the hospital.

Saintizaire’s husband, who was “clearly at work,” according to Judd, told detectives he does not handle the discipline of the children. Saintizaire “repeatedly denied” ever using physical discipline as punishment for either child, the sheriff’s office said.

When reviewing her phone, detectives found two videos from home surveillance cameras showing Saintizaire allegedly hitting the 4-year-old with an unknown object while he was lying face down on the floor, Judd said. Another video showed her allegedly throwing the boy into a pool with his hands tied behind his back.

“Our number one goal in this organization is to protect the children,” Judd said, “and that’s why we go after child predators, that’s why we go after child pornographers, that’s why we go after child abusers and we certainly go after child murderers.”

President Biden is facing an uphill battle to convince voters the November election is a “referendum” on Donald Trump because even Democratic voters have “nostalgia” for the Trump years, a reporter argued on ABC’s “This Week.”

Host Jonathan Karl asked his political panel on Sunday to comment on the lack of enthusiasm over Biden’s re-election from key demographics who backed his 2020 campaign.

NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid confessed that the Biden campaign would have trouble selling its message on Trump because “many voters are looking at this election as a referendum on [Biden].”

Khalid said she has been surprised by Democratic voters telling her on the campaign trail that they have “nostalgia” for the Trump years.

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“What I’ve already heard in so many of my interviews with people is a lackluster sense of enthusiasm, whether it’s Black voters — you would call them sort of disaffected Republicans,” she began. 

She argued a host of factors helped unify the Democratic base to support Biden ahead of the 2020 election, but the current political climate is not as friendly to Biden as it was then.

“To make this a referendum [on Trump], sure, is what the Biden campaign wants, but it is really challenging because many voters are looking at this election as a referendum on [Biden],” she said.

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“I was just up in Pennsylvania. Nonstop, I heard about the economy, and people don’t feel great about the economy now. This nostalgia for the Trump years is something — it’s the economy nostalgia I heard from Democrats even, which was really shocking to me — lay Democrats, remembering how good they thought their 401K was. They would say in their next breath they’re not going to vote for Trump for a variety of reasons, but that is what Joe Biden is up against,” she continued.

A Quinnipiac University poll released in April shows President Biden’s slight lead over former President Trump vanishing. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon | Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)

Polls and reports have indicated the Biden campaign has lost support from younger voters, Black voters and Latino voters who voted for him in 2020 but now blame the president for the state of the economy.

The Biden administration is trying to court these voters in the battleground states of Georgia and Michigan through a tour selling his “Bidenomics” message.

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Fellow “This Week” panelist Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, argued that people were trying to glamorize the Trump years and were “forgetting” how former President Trump affected abortion access through his Supreme Court picks.

“Right now, everybody wants the president to fix every single thing in their lives, but the president can’t fix every single thing,” she began.

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“If we lean in and we talk about the fact that the president is the one that gets the Supreme Court pick, we know that these three justices that Donald Trump got to pick under his presidency — they are the ones that took away [reproductive] access. They are the ones that are attacking diversity, equity and inclusion, affirmative action. They are the ones saying, ‘You know what? Biden wants to help you on your student loans, but we refuse to allow him to give you the help that he wants to give you,’” she continued.

While Biden enjoyed a polling bump following his State of the Union address in March, he is now trailing Trump again, this time by 6 points, according to a CNN poll released last week. 

South Fulton, Georgia police put a stop to a group of squatters who allegedly moved into a vacant home on Christmas last year.

FOX 5 in Atlanta reported that the South Fulton Police Department pulled up to the home on Caveat Court, which was supposed to be vacant, in large numbers before detaining six individuals and recovering a stolen vehicle.

The home is located in Hampton Oaks, and the station spoke with the homeowner association’s vice president, Kendra Snorton, who claimed the group moved into the vacant home on Christmas Day.

“The ringleader, we see him walking his dog all the time. He’s very courteous and polite when he interacts with the community,” Snorton said.

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The president of the HOA, Mel Keyton, told the station individuals in the group broke into another home in the subdivision, stole a car and returned to the home they had been occupying for months.

“When the police showed up, the car was behind us in the yard. That’s how we put two and two together,” Keyton said.

She also explained that squatters frequent the neighborhood, making it dangerous.

“They use our amenities. They walk through the neighborhood. They break into houses,” she said.

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South Fulton, Georgia police detain squatters allegedly in a home since Christmas 2023. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Snorton also said it makes her feel uneasy not knowing who is living among them.

South Fulton is located about 20 miles southwest of Atlanta.

Last month, Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Ga., signed a bill making squatting a crime in Georgia.

In an interview with “Fox & Friends,” Kemp said the Georgia Squatter Reform Act would allow property owners to go after squatters for damages, in addition to speeding up the eviction process.

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South Fulton, Georgia police detain squatters allegedly in a home since Christmas 2023, while recovering a stolen car as well. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

“Unfortunately, bad actors have figured out ways to take advantage of this, exploit, really the process that goes through the local government,” Kemp said. “So, we’re passing legislation that I’m going to sign right after this interview to stiffen the penalties, to go after these folks, to also speed up the eviction process. But, also, allow the property owner to go after these squatters for damages.” 

Gov. Ron DeSantis. R-Fla., also passed a bill in Florida that eliminates squatters’ rights in March. 

A real estate agent previously told Fox News that one squatter in Atlanta, Georgia, sold appliances.

“The last incident that I had, there was a squatter there who totally destroyed the place,” Kesha Chedeaux, a real estate agent and one of the squatters’ victims, told Fox News’ Lawrence Jones in February. 

“One has went to jail. They sold the appliances from the property and received money for them. Selling appliances, [there’s] feces everywhere, [they’re] sleeping in the beds because these properties are staged on the market.”

The real estate agent said any attempts to remove squatters from the properties they’re occupying are dangerous, adding that the people occupying these homes illegally are doing it without fear.

Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.