The story about the (now) 13 year old boy
charged with murdering his two year old
brother has been bothering me since I read
it.
Huffington Post: A decade before he was
charged with murder, a 2-year-old Cristian
Fernandez was found naked and dirty,
wandering a South Florida street.

The
grandmother taking care of him had holed
up with cocaine in a messy motel room,
while his 14-year-old mother was nowhere
to be found.
His life had been punctuated with violence
since he was conceived, an act that resulted
in a sexual assault conviction against his
father. Fernandez’ life got worse from there:

He was sexually assaulted by a cousin and
beaten by his stepfather, who committed
suicide before police investigating the
beating arrived.
Now 13, Fernandez is accused of two
heinous crimes himself: first-degree murder
in the 2011 beating death of his 2-year-old
half-brother and the sexual abuse of his 5-
year-old half-brother.
Fernandez was born in Miami in 1999 to
Biannela Susana, who was 12. The 25-year-
old father received 10 years’ probation for
sexually assaulting her.

Two years later, both mother and son went
to foster care after authorities in South
Florida found the toddler, filthy and naked,
walking in the street at 4 a.m. near the motel
where his grandmother did drugs.

In 2007, when Fernandez was 8, the
Department of Children and Families
investigated a report that he was sexually
molested by an older cousin. Officials said
other troubling incidents were reported,
including claims that he killed a kitten,
simulated sex with classmates and
masturbated at school.
In October 2010, Fernandez and his mother
were living in Hialeah, a Miami suburb, with
his mother’s new husband. Fernandez
suffered an eye injury so bad that school
officials sent him to the hospital where he
was examined for retinal damage.
Fernandez told officers that his stepfather
had punched him. When officers went to the
family’s apartment, they found the
stepfather dead from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound.
It’s beyond horrific and disturbing that so
young a young child can have experienced
such trauma in his short life and be forced
to do the un-thinkable like Alicia keys would
sing!

Source; www.juicyjanezone.com/13-years-old-boy-charged-with-murdering-his-two-year-old-brother