2 Children Found in Bags in Fla. Canal

[imsuchawildflower]

they have a suspect, clem beauchamp.

i have no details about him yet.

O wow I hadnt heard that! What a sick PIG!

A truly disgusting crime....bless those poor babies hearts....

[Lady Cop]

PALM BEACH POST
DELRAY BEACH — Detectives suspect a man with a violent past in the murders of two children who were found folded into black bags and tossed into a canal near the city's south side, police said this evening.

Police are questioning Clem Beauchamp, 34, of 105 Southwest 7^th Ave., in the deaths of a girl between ages 6 and 10 and a boy between 10 and 12, said Sgt. Nicole Guerreiro, Delray Beach police spokeswoman. The children were found Wednesday bobbing in the C-15 canal.

Records show Beauchamp was arrested five times between 1995 and 2010, on charges ranging from armed robbery to marijuana possession.

Neighbors described him as a doting father of four children who had been having relationship problems and, lately, acting strangely.

Earlier today, Delray Beach Police said they identified the two children whose bodies were found Wednesday stuffed in luggage in the C-15 canal.

At the earlier news conference, Guerriero declined to name the children.

Meanwhile, police put up crime scene tape around Beauchamp's house, where at least four children lived, neighbors said.

[Freshbait78]

I found a picture of him LC.... can I post the link?

[Lady Cop]

I found a picture of him LC.... can I post the link?

yes, thankyou.

[Freshbait78]

I found a picture of him LC.... can I post the link?

yes, thankyou.

http://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Clem_...p_1266380/

[Lady Cop]

Thanks Bait~~

[Lady Cop]

Palm Beach Post

DELRAY BEACH — Clem Beauchamp walked to the end of his driveway on Tuesday night, passed his mailbox and headed for the church on the corner. As neighbors stood and stared, the troubled father fell to his knees and prayed. It was 11 p.m.

The scene was the first hint to the neighborhood that something wasn't right at the Beauchamp house, where just two weeks earlier four happy kids had tossed a football during a family barbecue.

In the days that followed, someone stuffed the bodies of two small children, a girl between 6 and 10 and a boy between 10 and 12, into plain black bags and dumped them in a canal on the city's south side. They were found bobbing in the water on Wednesday. A search for their killer on Thursday led detectives to Beauchamp's little tan house on Southwest Seventh Avenue.

By Thursday night, detectives had named the 34-year-old felon as a suspect in the slayings but declined to identify the victims, describe a cause of death or say whether they were children in Beauchamp's care. They hadn't arrested him.

Neighbors who ringed a police perimeter at Beauchamp's house on Thursday said they hadn't seen children around since the barbecue. It's been even longer -- weeks or months, depending on whom you asked - since they saw his former girlfriend, Felicia Brown. Police on Thursday still were searching for Brown.

It wasn't clear whether they had located Beauchamp's other girlfriend, and the mother of his children, Michelle Dent.

As investigators pursued leads in the case, his neighbors strained to know more about what was going on inside Beauchamp's home.

Court documents, state records, arrest affidavits and interviews paint a portrait of Beauchamp as perennially at war with his girlfriends - a violent, gun-toting drug-user who nevertheless fought hard for custody of his children and showered them with affection.

He shared the home with one girlfriend or another, but lately he always was surrounded by four kids. Staying with him were Jytra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10, children of his ex-girlfriend Brown, and his own kids, Keayana, 10, and Demetrius, 15. Police on Thursday wouldn't say whether all of the children were accounted for.

"He was very much into his kids. He loved his kids," said Beauchamp's friend and neighbor, Kenneth Marshall. Marshall said Beauchamp seemed like the kind of dad who could "work his kids like a drill sergeant" yet still clown around and play catch with them. He walked them to a bus stop near the corner of Southwest Seventh Avenue and Southwest First Street every school day.

During one hearing in a bitter, decade-long battle for custody of Keayana and Demetrius, Beauchamp described for a judge his thoughts on parenting.

"Being a mother means more than just having birthed the kids. Just like being a father means more than just making the kid. You actually got to be there for them. And I'm prepared to do all that," he said. "I'm there to make sure they do their homework. To give them proper guidance that they need to succeed in life."

"I've been nothing but a good father to my kids," he continued, describing the dirt bike and four-wheeler he had bought for them. "Every Christmas I'm there."

But despite his sense of responsibility, Beauchamp also was a man who stormed a fast-food chain with a pistol drawn, smoked pot and carried a robbery kit, according to arrest affidavits dating to 1995. Records show he was arrested five times in Florida on charges ranging from robbery to drug possession. He was convicted in 1996 of aggravated assault with a firearm.

On Thursday, as he was being questioned by Delray Beach police in the slayings, he was formally charged in U.S. District Court with possession of a silenced firearm, according to a complaint filed by an agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In laying out the federal allegations, the ATF agent described finding, in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack.

The women in Beauchamp's life often were at odds, records show. Once, in 2008, Dent lured Brown out of Brown's Boynton Beach house using Beauchamp's daughter as bait. Dent put a knife to Brown's throat and threatened to kill her, according to an affidavit for Dent's arrest.

In recent weeks, Beauchamp split up with Brown, his girlfriend of four or five years, and Dent, whom he had been fighting for custody, moved back into his house, neighbors said. They said Brown disappeared after the breakup, but her kids remained with Beauchamp.

Then the kids, too, went away. During the past few days, Beauchamp had acted strangely, said Marshall and other neighbors. He cut his dreadlocks, he seemed pained, and he visited the church at night to pray on his knees in the grass.

Fearing the worst, Brown's sister, Margaret Gissome on Thursday made the short trip up Atlantic Avenue to the city police station, seeking to confirm the dead children were her niece and nephew.

Clutching photos of the missing children, she offered help but was turned away.

Police told her they were using dental records to identify the children, hinting at the poor condition of the bodies.

Seething, fearful and anxious at the same time, she returned to the neighborhood where detectives still were swarming and resumed her grim wait.

[Lady Cop]

Palm Beach Post

DELRAY BEACH — West Palm Beach Police are looking into the possibility that a woman's body found in several months ago in a trash bin in West Palm Beach is linked to the deaths of two children found in bags in a Delray Beach canal on Wednesday.

A police spokesman didn't release the name of the woman. But the mother of two children linked to the Delray Beach case has been missing, police have said.

Felecia Brown is the mother of two children who were living with Clem Beauchamp at his home in Delray Beach. She and Beauchamp were romantically involved for years but broke up months ago.

Also today, the Florida Department of Children & Families persuaded a judge to remove two children from the custody of Michelle Dent, Beauchamp's current girlfriend. During the hearing, a DCF investigator told the judge that Dent was "a person of interest" in a double and possibly a triple homicide.

Delray Beach Police have scheduled a second news conference about the case for 6 p.m. today.

Police began questioning Beauchamp Thursday night. He was formally charged Thursday in U.S. District Court with possession of a silenced firearm, according to a complaint filed by an agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In laying out the federal allegations, which is a separate investigation from the dead children, the ATF agent described finding in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack.

Brown, Dent, sketch of homicide victim:

[Duchess]

*sigh*

[Lady Cop]

JuTyra Allen, believed to be the 6-year-old girl pulled from a Delray canal on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Her brother, Jermaine McNeil, 10, is believed to be the second child pulled from the canal Wednesday.

[Countryside_Belle]

Good God. Ugh. No words. Horrible.

[Lady Cop]

the murdered mother of the dead children...her sordid story.

photo is tats on her calf, the house, and Brown.


Palm Beach Post

Felicia Brown's children were attacked before they even were born, tiny victims of punches and kicks while still in their mother's womb.

When they took their first breaths, they became part of a family long familiar with danger, strife and violence, according to court documents, police records and interviews.

Their young mother, Felicia Brown, drifted from one bad relationship to another. She and her children eventually settled in Delray Beach with a felon, Clem Beauchamp, despite his lingering attachment to a woman who was viciously at odds with his new girlfriend.

What happened next is shaping up to be a twisted murder mystery. Explaining why the 10-year-old boy, 6-year-old girl and their mother were killed has become the central occupation of homicide detectives - and of the scrappy, tightknit neighborhood that had thought it would watch the kids grow up.

Instead, police said, Jermaine and Ju'Tyra were bundled and, like their mother, discarded as so much garbage. For the family, it was the last in a long string of indignities.

Trouble begins early

Brown grew up poor. As teenagers, when she and her sisters wanted to do their laundry, they poured detergent into a bucket of water and wrung their clothes by hand.

By the time she was 14, she had learned to fear the police. She already was spending time with criminals, records show, and during her short life she would appear in police reports as both victim and perpetrator.

Her family fought constantly, sometimes violently, and her mother's suburban West Palm Beach home became a familiar destination for Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies.

Brown had her share of fights with her mother, brother and sisters, but she also played referee to the family. She was quick to call authorities when her siblings or mother seemed in danger.

By 2002, Brown was 17 and pregnant. One day she was arguing with her younger brother over a toothbrush when the 16-year-old punched her in the face so hard it split her lip. Months later, she delivered a girl named Jasmine, Brown's second child. Two years earlier, she had given birth to a boy. She named him Jermaine McNeil.

Brown eventually gave up Jasmine to the state for adoption. By 2004, she was involved with Curtis Allen, a man with a lengthy criminal record. She got pregnant again.

In July, she was asleep in her mother's house when Allen, angry over an argument, pried open her locked door, jumped on top of her, ripped at her hair and slapped her face, according to a report. She was calm when she met deputies in her driveway, wearing a torn green nightgown. She cradled her belly and complained of pain.

Deputies arrested Allen on a charge of battering a pregnant woman. Before prosecutors could pursue the case, Brown asked them to drop it, saying she wasn't really pregnant.

Ju'Tyra Allen was born four months later.

Fighting to keep children

As a young mother, Brown got in trouble often. She was arrested 16 times between 1997 and 2006, state records show, on charges ranging from shoplifting to cocaine possession to armed robbery. She never was convicted of a crime in Palm Beach County, but she lost custody of Ju'Tyra soon after the girl was born, said Allen's mother, Judy. She said the state Department of Children and Families also briefly took away Jermaine.

Still, Brown was proud of her children; she had their names tattooed on her left calf, beside a picture of a winding rose.

Judy Allen said she raised Ju'Tyra for about three years before social services workers returned the girl to Brown.

Eventually, records indicate, Brown settled down. By 2008, she had been seeing Beauchamp for about three years, a relationship marked by violent run-ins with Michelle Dent, Beauchamp's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his two small children.

Brown pushed Beauchamp to go to court for custody of his two children, who were living with Dent. Dent responded that March by attacking Brown with a knife, police said.

During a court hearing that August, Beauchamp described Dent as a greedy, drug-addled and negligent mother who slept days and spent nights drinking in clubs. When it was her turn to talk, Brown told the court that Dent left the children alone, hungry, and in dirty clothes and a filthy house.

In an exchange during that hearing, Brown looked at Dent and said, "He gave you chance after chance to change and do things better. And that's the reason why he decided to go ahead and file for custody of his kids, because he was tired of them being outside at all times of night. Tired of him trying to take them home and no one is there. Tired of them crying and complaining about they're hungry."

The kids went to live with Beauchamp, Brown and her children. Neighbors would watch the kids play together. They knew Jermaine as a promising young athlete, sure to become a star football player. They knew Ju'Tyra as the bubbly little girl who wore beads in her hair.

An unidentified body

And then, one day last summer, Brown disappeared. She was 25.

On Aug. 15, a family court judge ordered Beauchamp to return his two children to Dent, saying Beauchamp wasn't allowing Dent enough access. The next day, a woman's decomposing body was found at a county garbage dump in West Palm Beach.

Forensic investigators cataloged her scars and tattoos, hoping to learn her identity.

They moved from her neck to her wrist to her forearm before pausing to photograph her left leg. On her calf, they found three names printed beside a picture of a winding rose.

Seven months later: another macabre discovery. The bodies of two small children were found folded into plain black bags and dumped in the C-15 Canal between Delray Beach and Boca Raton.

Detectives opened one bag and found a boy, maybe 10 or 12 years old. They opened the other and found a girl with beads in her hair.

A flood of calls from the community led detectives to the 34-year-old Beauchamp's house. Eventually he was named as a suspect, though he hasn't been charged.

During an emergency hearing in dependency court on Friday, Dent lost custody of her three children. A DCF investigator testified that Dent was a person of interest in a double or triple homicide. Police on Friday said they don't suspect her in the deaths of Ju'Tyra and Jermaine.

Children stay in home

Improbably, about three weeks before Jermaine and Ju'Tyra were killed, Dent moved back in with Beauchamp. With Brown missing, the woman whom Brown had accused of mistreating kids now was looking after Brown's children. Still, neighbors said, Dent treated the kids as her own.

Soon after she moved in, Beauchamp crossed the street to talk to his neighbor, Kenneth Marshall. He told Marshall that Dent had gotten a voucher for government housing assistance and wanted to move - without Jermaine and Ju'Tyra.

Dent told Beauchamp she was tired of taking care of other people's kids, Marshall said. He said Beauchamp seemed shaken by the idea.

Why not return the kids to Brown? Marshall asked.

That wasn't an option, Beauchamp answered.

Felicia Brown’s troubled life

Before she became involved with Clem Beauchamp, Felicia Brown’s life was marked by violence and conflict.

Oct. 22, 1999: When she was 14, Belle Glade police officers found Brown cruising the city streets as a passenger in a stolen car. She wasn’t charged.

Nov. 5, 2004: DCF investigators were called to Brown’s suburban West Palm Beach apartment because marijuana had been found within reach of Jermaine. Ju’Tyra was born a month later.

June 25, 2005: In a car west of West Palm Beach, Brown’s boyfriend smacked her in the face, tore her shirt and yelled that he would make her walk home naked, police said. Crying, she tumbled from the car facedown into the dirt. He dragged her across the ground. Deputies arrested the boyfriend on domestic battery charges.

July 2005: Brown had three kids and was short on cash. After staying with cousins in Lake Worth, she waited till they left the house, smashed a window, climbed in and stole a laptop, camcorder, PlayStation 2 and $1,500 cash, police said. A grand theft charge was dropped.

[shitstorm]

This whole segment of society not only requires the constant attention of LE but ²⁴⁄₇ babysitting (adults included) by the state.

This got to me to thinking about another FLA child, little Rilya Wilson. She's never been found and no trial could ever commence because there is no evidence. Human sleaze abounds in that case, including FL Dept of Child and Family Services (or whatever they call themselves).

[Lady Cop]

i do remember Rilya, Storm. :(

this is the great-grandma. i have no idea where the grandma is (mother of Brown).
anyway, all this weeping and wailing and begging for money (yes the poor innocent children need to be buried of course) but NOBODY saw or heard from or asked about or reported missing any of their dead family since last summer. so what's up with that shit??

DELRAY BEACH — During a painful news conference this morning, the great-grandmother of the two children who were found dead floating in a canal last week, asked for help from the community.

Sitting before microphones at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Barbara Flint asked that the community come forth to help cover the unexpected funeral expenses of her granddaughter, Felicia Brown, and her two great-grandchildren, Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10.

Flint could barely speak as she tried containing her grief in front of reporters and cameras. After only a few minutes, she broke down in tears and had to be escorted out by church pastors as she wailed.

"I know God is in control and he never makes mistakes," Flint said before she broke down. "I can't bring them back. I can't bring them back."

Two funds have been set up to help cover for the funeral expenses of the Ju'Tyra, Jermaine and Brown. One was set up by Jermaine's football coach Tolliver Miller, of the Boca Jets. That account is under the name of Jermaine McNeil, and deposits can be made at any Wachovia bank.

The alternate way to donate is by sending checks to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach. The check should be made out to the church, adding "in care of The Brown/Allen Family."

Rev. Kathleen Gannon, of St. Paul's Episcopal, assured that the funds would be managed by the church to ensure proper handling.

[mamabear]

Wow, those poor children. I can't believe nobody reported these people missing. Really, where are their family and friends? But, if their mother was missing for a year, and nobody noticed? Neighbors didn't notice anything? That poor woman (Brown) lived such a sud and unloving life. I hope they find her body to at least lay her to rest.

[Lady Cop]

Brown was one of the bodies found murdered, she was buried with the kids. (see above posts. )

[mamabear]

Sorry; I read them, lol but I guess I missed that part. At least her family now has closure, if they ever missed her.

[Duchess]

Is there really such a thing as closure?

[IMaDick]

Is there really such a thing as closure?

There is a finality that comes with burial.

Closure is a nice word for what the fuck can you do about it?

The mind moves on.

unless of course you're a norman bates type person.

[kfran]

Is there really such a thing as closure?

I hate the word "closure" just like I hate the phrase "time heals all wounds." Time doesn't heal all wounds, things may become easier to deal with but sometimes wounds & broken hearts will always remain.