This man killed his 2-year-old daughter and fed her to a dog (PICTURED)
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A little girl in New York is said to have been murdered and chopped to pieces by her father before being fed to a dog.
Serenity Brown was almost 2-years-old when her father, said to be upset at her laughter, butchered her and ended her young life.Edward Brown, an ex-convict, is said to have punched his daughter in the chest and then fed her a pitbull.
NY Daily reports:
City social workers discovered the child was missing
during a 2011 visit, and cops opened an investigation into her mother’s
claims about the horrors that went down in a Brooklyn apartment.
Little Serenity was listening to her mother, Paula Johnson, read a
story inside their Canarsie apartment when, according to Johnson, her
ex-con dad, Edward (Chuck) Brown, flew into a rage over the child’s
laughter, law enforcement sources said.
A single punch to the chest left the helpless tot unresponsive, Johnson told investigators.
Johnson claimed Brown snatched Serenity’s limp body from the
mom’s arms, carried his daughter into the bathroom, put her in the tub
and filled it with water, sources said.
He allegedly fetched a knife from the kitchen, turned up the
volume on the radio and told Johnson to stay in the bedroom before
carving up the dead child, sources said.
Johnson told investigators Brown then fed the girl’s remains to a
pit bull, a source said. An anonymous caller last year claimed the
crime was covered up when Brown then executed the dog.
The start of the probe was delayed for five years, as investigators only learned about Serenity’s disappearance in October 2011.
Social workers visited the mom’s new address 5 miles away in
Flatbush after a report that Johnson, 35, was keeping her 12-year-old
son home from school.
While at the Coney Island Ave. home, the workers came to the
horrible realization that Serenity — while listed as receiving public
assistance — was nowhere to be found, records from the Administration
for Children’s Services show.
Johnson initially claimed Serenity was with her paternal
grandmother in Alabama before coming clean about her daughter’s gruesome
demise.
The mother claimed Brown, 34, killed the child and “they had discarded the body,” according to the ACS documents.
Serenity’s paternal grandmother, Alfreddia Norris, told the Daily
News that the NYPD came to her Alabama home looking for Serenity in
2011. Norris, whose son lives nearby, said she hadn’t seen the baby
since the girl was 3 months old.
“I’d like to know what happened to her,” said Norris. “Where is she?”
The grandmother defended her son against the homicide allegations, suggesting the mother was to blame.
“Why did she say that and then say that he had her down here?” Norris said. “She’s the one folks need to be talking to.”
Repeated attempts to reach Serenity’s parents were unsuccessful. Neither has been charged with a crime.
A source said Johnson was questioned in 2011 by police and she
told them Brown killed Serenity because the girl was laughing too
loudly.
Johnson told authorities Brown plucked Serenity from the bed and
slammed her down on a couch in the apartment’s single bedroom, leaving
the child stunned. He then allegedly punched the tiny tot in the chest.
Her body went limp. Johnson said she put her ear to the baby’s chest but
didn’t hear anything, so she tried CPR, the sources said.
ACS received an anonymous phone tip last March claiming that “the
mother and father got rid of the child by feeding the child to a pit
bull. The father then killed the dog,” agency documents show.
Johnson’s mother, now living in the Coney Island Ave. apartment
visited by ACS in 2011, was reluctant to answer questions about her
long-missing granddaughter.
“Yes, I feel sad about it,” said Cynthia Johnson, 53, at her apartment. “I don’t know nothing about this.”
She said she rarely saw her granddaughter because Brown, who went
to prison in New York for attempted robbery in 2000 and was released a
year later, wouldn’t let her daughter bring Serenity around.
By the time caseworkers visited the mom in 2011, the parents had
split up and moved from the building where Serenity was allegedly
killed.
But investigators have continued to search for evidence in the 70-unit apartment building with views of Jamaica Bay.
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