A GRANDMOTHER’s terrifying warning has been revealed after the body of a three-year-old blind boy was found decomposing in a freezer.
Chase Allen was honored by his community on Monday when five more children were rescued from the house where his body was found just days earlier.
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Balloons were released into the air in memory of Chase, who was described as a sweet, shy and gentle boy.
“He didn’t deserve to go through what he went through,” said his aunt, Tyshanna France.
Chase’s body was found Friday after police arrived at his Detroit home with a state child advocate.
Authorities saw his mother’s five other children living in misery before discovering the boy’s decomposing body in a basement freezer, The Detroit News reported.
His death was considered a murder and Chase’s mother Azuradee France, 31, now faces multiple charges, including murder, first-degree child abuse, torture and concealment of a death.
Azuradee France’s mother, Toni Haynes, told WXYZ she is ill that her grandson may have died at the hands of his own mother.
‘No, that’s not my daughter. I brought a monster into this world and I didn’t even know it,” she said.
Haynes claimed she called CPS on her daughter several times along with other members of the family, but France’s children were reportedly always returned to her.
“This case has shocked me and shocked our investigators,” Detroit Police Chief James White said at a news conference.
France’s sister claimed she had custody of Chase when he was two months old, after the mother of six had her children removed earlier.
Her other sister, Azvante Sauls, said she should never have had her children back after that.
Echoing Haynes’ claims, Sauls said she fought with her sister to take Chase away from her after the CPS family called multiple times.
Haynes said Chase, who went blind more than a year ago, had suffered a burn injury in the past.
She told The Detroit News that his mother said he touched a cup of hot noodles, but Saul and the rest of the family called in the CPS.
After the incident, the family told WXYZ that the agency had to conduct three months of checks.
“CPS, they abandoned us, they abandoned this family, they abandoned Chase,” Sauls said.
The family has set up a GoFundMe to help cover the costs of Chase’s funeral and support his five siblings.
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