Heart-breaking audio taken before 7-year-old Julissia Batties’ NYC deathBy Georgett Roberts and Susan Edelman
May 7, 2022
“Grandma, call the police!”
Julissia Batties was crying hysterically and begging her grandmother not to send her for a court-ordered weekend visit with her mom, Navasia Jones.
The Bronx girl, who was killed at age 7 under mysterious circumstances in Jones’ apartment last August, sobs in a heart-breaking audio recording obtained by The Post.
“I don’t want to go with mommy,” Julissia repeatedly told her grandma Yolanda Davis, who was also her foster parent.
Asked in another recording what the police could do, the doomed girl said simply: “Help me out.”
Despite her pleas, Julissia was sent to visit her mother, who lost custody of the girl at birth, along with four sons, due to alleged negligence and physical abuse.
Against objections by her grandmother and court-appointed lawyer, the city Administration for Children’s Services last June 21 finally returned Julissia to live with her mother, without supervision, for the first time.
Less than two months later, on Aug. 10, Julissia was dead.
The mother claimed the little girl fell and hit her head on a desk.
Her eldest son, 17, told cops he punched his half-sister eight times in the face, though officials decided those blows did not kill her. Hours later, Julissia started throwing up and passed out. Her mom called 911. The brutally-injured girl was rushed to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/07/audio-reveals-more-info-on-julissia-batties-nyc-death/
