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Oklahoma authorities have recognized Athena Brownfield’s stays about one month after the 4-year-old’s suspected homicide on Christmas.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) introduced on Jan. 17 that that they had “recovered the stays of a kid in rural Grady County outdoors of Rush Springs,” the place Athena’s caretakers used to personal property, although OSBI didn’t verify the identification of the stays till Thursday after conducting an post-mortem.
“The Oklahoma Workplace of Chief Medical Examiner has positively recognized the stays [OSBI] brokers recovered on January 17, 2023 as these of Athena Brownfield, 4,” OSBI stated in a Thursday assertion.
Brownfield was initially reported lacking on Jan. 10 after a postal service discovered her 5-year-old sister wandering round alone in Cyril, Oklahoma, round 2 p.m. Investigators imagine Athena died whereas underneath the watch of her caretakers, Ivon and Alysia Adams, on Dec. 25, 2022.
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Alysia is charged with two counts of kid neglect in reference to Athena’s disappearance from Cyril, Oklahoma. Ivon Adams is charged with first-degree homicide and little one neglect in reference to Athena’s suspected demise.
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“Alysia confessed that on Dec. 25, 2022, round midnight that evening, Ivon beat [Athena] and held her by her arms, [Athena] was not transferring and her eyes had been barely open,” Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) Particular Agent Brenna Alvarez wrote in a possible trigger affidavit filed in Caddo County. “He then laid her on the bottom and punched her chest not less than extra thrice after that. [Athena] by no means moved after that.”
The alleged abuse occurred on the Adams’ dwelling at 225 West Nebraska Avenue in Cyril, Oklahoma.
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Ivon left the residence with Athena afterward and later informed Alysia that he buried her close to the fence line of their previous property in Rush Springs, Oklahoma, in response to Alvarez.
Authorities stated Athena and her sister known as Alysia “Mother” and “Aly.” They known as Ivon “Uncle Ivon.”
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Ivon Adams fled to Phoenix, Arizona, after the alleged homicide. Maricopa County officers arrested him on a cost of appearing as a fugitive from justice. He was initially held in Arizona however was transferred again to Caddo County on Thursday.
A person who shares a baby with Jasmin Brownfield — Athena’s organic mom — who spoke to Fox Information Digital on the situation of anonymity stated Ivon and Alysia had been Jasmin’s cousins. He alleged that Jasmin has a historical past of leaving her youngsters, together with their son that she left in his care when the boy was about two years previous.
“We had an settlement … and she or he was like, ‘I simply want you to carry on to him for a number of months till I get located,’ and I used to be like, ‘Alright,’ so I took him, drove him all the way in which again to Indiana, and for the primary one-and-a-half, two months … she simply went lifeless quiet. No responses. Nothing,” the person stated.
The person filed for full custody of her son quickly after that. He additionally claimed that Athena’s adoptive grandparents complained to the Oklahoma Division of Human Companies (ODHS) about Athena’s and her sister’s wellbeing final summer season. Fox Information DIgital has submitted a information request for this communication.
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“I do not need to see [Athena’s sister] undergo an identical scenario. The truth that this has already occurred twice — I really feel like it will occur a 3rd time if Jasmin was in a position to get Athena again into her custody. … I do not desire a related factor to occur,” the person stated.
Anybody with details about the incident requested to contact OSBI at 405-879-2591 or native police.