RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — New details have emerged regarding the death of a 7-year-old girl, believed to have been killed by her mother, which reveal years of documented abuse and abandonment that were allegedly ignored by the system.
“This is a child in a domestic battery and then taken from this earth by the person who was entrusted to give life, but she gave death,” Chief Michael Coleman of the Riviera Beach Police Department (RBPD) said.
RBPD spoke to Nia’s siblings, who told officers that Naikishia would violently punish them with objects such as metal pipes, heels, and belts. The report also said that in Nia’s final days, she was suffering from severe stomach pain and vomiting after being “stomped on” by her mother…