Mother Escapes Homicide Cost In Dying of Son Stored In Cage, Drowned for ‘Stealing Meals’

Alize Seymore pleaded guilty to 2 counts of aggravated little one abuse on Monday and was sentenced to twenty years in jail on each rely, to be served concurrently, per CourtTV. Seymore and her husband, Tre Seymore, had been initially indicted on charges of first-degree homicide, aggravated manslaughter of a kid, tampering with a witness, little one abuse, and inflicting a minor to become delinquent or dependent, all in relation to the loss of life of Alize’s 6-year-old son, Anthony Rouse.

Tre beforehand pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide, aggravated manslaughter of a kid, little one abuse, and inflicting a minor to develop into delinquent or dependent; he had agreed to testify in opposition to his spouse in trial and was given 30 years in jail as a part of a plea deal.

Authorities had been referred to the Seymores’ house on April 22, 2023, after the boy’s mom and stepfather claimed they discovered him within the bathtub, face down within the water.

Per the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace, the pair advised deputies they dispatched him to “take a shower as punishment for soiling himself,” however, they did not verify on him for “a minimum of 20 minutes,” with Alize saying she was looking at TikTok, as detailed in a possible trigger affidavit within the case.

Tre stated the door was locked when he went to verify on Anthony, whereas Alize stated they pried the door open with a fork and located him unresponsive. Regulation&Crime experiences Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stated the 2 tried to move off the loss of life as a suicide — although Judd is quoted as saying, “We knew early on throughout this investigation that there was no rational clarification for this younger kid’s loss of life.”

Anthony was declared lifeless within the hospital the next day, by no means regaining consciousness.

“Throughout a search warrant on the house, detectives famous that the toilet didn’t have electrical energy, nor windows to permit in any mild. The bedrooms the place the youngsters slept also didn’t have electrical energy,” the Sheriff’s Office stated in September 2023, when the 2 had been indicted. “Tre admitted that he turned off the breaker to these rooms in order that there wouldn’t be any electrical energy for the children. The youngsters’ bedroom doorways are additionally locked from the outside. Clothes dirty with urine and feces were in one of many bedrooms; the closet in that bedroom additionally had feces on the wall.”

Detectives additionally discovered a canine cage within the storage, which the Sheriff stated “was used to ‘punish’ the sufferer by locking him inside it.” Textual content messages between the 2 and photographs and movies “of the abuse and the sufferer being locked within the canine cage” allegedly backed up these allegations.

Among the many texts despatched the month of his loss of life, by way of court docket docs, Alize stated, “Bro imma find yourself Killing this fats bitch, my home getting is f–kn soiled trigger him, partitions in storage turning f–kn black gt marks and s–t like bro.”

That very same night, she allegedly dispatched Tre video of the boy within the cage — including, “He keeps in that f–kn s–t and rottttt.” Authorities described the sufferer as having a “terrified and traumatized look” on his face in one of many “a number of movies exhibiting him within the cage.”

In one other message, Alize allegedly stated, “I hate him” of her son, earlier than Tre requested her, “Why maintain placing him within the storage if you are going to continuously have her over, Wtf is incorrect with you alize, Are you able to please f**king assume for as soon as in your life.” Alize responded to that one by allegedly writing, “She does not even know he’s right here, he ain’t conversed all day. I have been speaking to him.”

One other textual content exhibits Alize allegedly writing, “Could not get him out and actually don’t need him out,” earlier than speaking in regards to the track “Road Runner” whereas saying, “If I ever killed VICTIM it could be to that track … Trigger I actually was gonna, I am simply being sincere.” The day earlier than his loss of life, she additionally stated, “I wanna put him up for adoption.”

Per the sheriff, the boy’s post-mortem “revealed proof of scars from prior bodily abuse,” whereas noting he had “a number of open wounds as well” at the time of his loss of life. In the meantime, different kids within the house additionally spoke with detectives, revealing extra alleged abuses.

“Two of the children (ages 7 and 10) advised them that they had been rewarded with sweets and meals in the event that they participated in ‘beating up’ the sufferer and placing the sufferer within the canine cage,” stated the sheriff. “They disclosed that Tre would take the sufferer ‘swimming’ within the rest room as punishment, and that ‘swimming’ meant ‘drowning’ which meant ‘holding the sufferer’s head underwater.'”

The punishment, they stated, came after the kid “got in trouble for stealing meals.”

“One little one advised detectives he witnessed Tre holding the sufferer’s head below the water, after which pulling the sufferer out of the water and performing CPR,” they stated. “He stated that Alize threatened to choke him if he revealed the reality about Tre doing this to the sufferer.”

The kids additionally advised police that Tre would carry out chokeholds on them to get them to fall asleep.

 “The investigative findings above, coupled with the observations of neglect famous on the incident location, present the ongoing abuse and neglect perpetrated by Tre and Alize; in the end, resulting in the loss of life of the sufferer,” authorities concluded.