An unhinged Florida mom allegedly killed her 6-year-old son throughout a twisted try to “exorcise demons” from his physique — with police discovering the boy’s decaying stays 12 days later.
Police discovered little Ra’myl Pierre, lifeless in his mattress Friday on the household’s Fort Pierce house, after faculty officers reported the boy had been absent for greater than two weeks, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
Rhonda Paulynice was arrested the identical day, authorities stated.
The boy’s official trigger and time of dying are pending an post-mortem.
“What we did be taught in talking with the mom is she believes she was being advised by God to mainly exorcise demons out of the kid’s physique,” Sheriff Richard Del Toro stated throughout a information convention.
“And when the kid had stopped transferring and mainly handed away, at that time she felt that the kid had been launched from these demons, and was ready for him to mainly come again, at the moment.”
The disturbed mom, 41, spent the almost two weeks earlier than her son’s decomposing physique was discovered flooding social media with cryptic and obsessive non secular posts, her Fb confirmed.
Del Toro stated the difficulty lady exhibited erratic temper swings, shifting between laughing and crying, as investigators searched the eerie Bedford Drive house.
“Being a mum or dad, being out on a scene like that, seeing a 6-year-old baby that was killed for no different causes different than simply somebody being purely evil, it’s onerous,” he added.
“From what I perceive, this child simply lit the room up and was cherished by all people, in order that they’re all going to be having a really troublesome time.”
Regulation enforcement responded to the doomed residence a number of instances since January for home disputes between the deranged mom and her sister, who beforehand lived there — noting the younger boy was by no means concerned.
They final visited the house for a reported medical situation Could 17 — the day earlier than they consider the kid was killed — however noticed no indicators the accused killer posed a menace to her son, police stated.
Paulynice was charged with second-degree homicide, failure to report a dying and altering a physique.
She was booked at St. Lucie County Jail.
