Cops Discover Horrific Secret Hidden in Baby’s Throat

Cops Discover Horrific Secret Hidden in Baby’s Throat

a chaotic 911 call summons paramedics to the home of an unresponsive 13-week old infant. But when a troubling discovery police records, and the footage has never been seen before. At 7:37 a.m., emergency dispatchers answer a frantic plea for help. Please help us. Okay. Excuse me, sir. What’s the address of the emergency? Hey, what? Okay, sir. Please hurry, sir. Sir. Okay. Tell me exactly what happened. I don’t know. Okay. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Can someone tell me what happened? I’m brave. He got brave. What the he mean? What happened? I think I’m going to ask Not speak to one person. Can I speak to one person? A woman takes control of the call, finally getting vital information to the dispatcher. Bangs on our door and he said his son stops breathing. Okay. Okay. Can you ma’am? Can you just stay on the phone so I can talk to one person so I can get this help started? Are you with Are you with the patient now? Yes, we just And how ma’am ma’am? The dispatcher assures her that help is on the way. But with precious seconds slipping by, getting aid to the baby before paramedics arrive is critical. Okay. Listen, ma’am. I’m going to tell you how to get mouth to mouth. Okay. Go. I’m ready. Come on. Come on. Okay. Now, completely cover the baby’s mouth and his mouth and nose with your mouth. Then, I want you to blow two puffs of air into his lungs about 1 second each. Just enough to make the chest rise with each breath. Okay. Phew. Now, did you feel the air going in and out? Yes. At 7:46 a.m., paramedics finally reach the scene. 9 minutes after the call began, the 13-week old baby is rushed to the Metro Health Hospital, but it’s too late. The tragedy becomes far more disturbing when an alarming discovery is made during life-saving efforts leading to an urgent call to police. Hi, Janice. Social work Metro Health Medical Center. I’m calling to um notify requesting police homicide probably for a baby death. EMS may have already called, but just in case, I need to make sure that it was called in. A quick check of her records finds no earlier notification to police. Why didn’t they call us? It’s a 13-week old. I I’ll be honest with you. I don’t know the baby. I wonder why did EMS pick the baby up? Yeah. Now, will you guys notify homicide? Um, you know what? Uh, are we calling this a violent death? Uh, no. Well, we don’t know. Undetermined. The heartbreaking screams of the infant’s parents, 18-year-old Trayvon Hughes Senior, and 18-year-old Aciana Mchuan, can be heard in the background of the call. [Music] Oh, and they don’t know how it happened. Undetermined. I mean, we have speculation, but I’m going to figure determined. Okay, we’ll get a car out there. Okay. All right. Uh, probably sooner than later. They’re going They’re They’re who? They’re They’re They’re going over here. They’re going What? They’re going crazy over here. Well, who’s there? Is it mom, dad? Cleveland police respond urgently and make their way to the nurses station where hospital staff reveal the cause of their alarm and the reason homicide detectives have been requested. Was this? This was in his throat. Okay. You guys suspect foul play or anything like that? I don’t think a three-month-old is going to want to shove that in their mouth. What is that? A baby wipe. A baby. Yeah. Three months are like walking in, you know. Yeah. Baby, they think that it’s suspicious that I guess. So, they have it over there. It’s Yeah. Just listening to your parents devastated. Parents are actually going crazy. That’s a metropic. How the blood stained baby white became lodged in the infant’s throat is now a question homicide detectives must work to answer. They meet with the infant’s parents as well as his brother Travier and his brother’s girlfriend Cassendra, the woman who performed CPR during the 911 call. Hi. Hello. I’m Detective Lumis. Dad? Yes. So sorry for your loss, folks. Honestly, who was at at home at the time? All of you. All of you guys. I was at work. You were at work? Okay. Investigators meet with Tayvon and Asiana separately in an effort to understand more about what happened with their son this morning. So, um, when you left for work this morning, was the baby sleeping? No, he was up. He was up. I woke up and then I checked on that. It’s like I do it every morning. I wake up and check on him cuz he sleeps right next to me in his bassinet. So, I look on him. He was in the bassinet next to you. Okay. And he was he was up just staring. So, I picked him up and I was just holding him, kissing him. And then I had put him down and started getting ready for work. After leaving for work, Tayvon was left to care for the baby. Not long after she left, the infant began to cry. When he when he was crying, I made him a bottle and he’ll choke himself like he greedy. He’ll be choking. You feel me? Good eater. So, I’ll be pulling it out of his mouth, give him like pick him up, burp him, send him back down, let him drink again. I keep burping him cuz he he’ll keep doing it. He prematures. So, I always did it constantly for him. And I set the little wipe on under his neck cuz it when he when it’s dripping down, you know, have milk smells. What time did he call and say the baby was choking? I was already on the like before the baby was choking everything. I was already on the phone with him. It was like around it was around 7. I don’t know that precise time cuz I’m a DSP. I take care of um older people with disabilities. So I was taking care of him, but I had my AirPod in. So I was listening to him. We was talking and everything. He was like, “Okay, I’m going to step out the room real quick.” He went to go step out the room. Then they got quiet. I didn’t hear nothing. Then he came back in the room and was like, “The baby choking. The baby choking.” I know something was in his mouth. Boom. After I’m trying to go down deep and into I’m like, “Babe, he choking. He choking. He choking.” So I’m trying to get this out his mouth. I’m constantly doing it, but it’s not working. So I’m overly panicking. He then explains that when his efforts to remove the obstruction weren’t working, he ran to get help from Travier and Cassendra. My big brother grabbed a brush to the uh the uh the kitchen, stand him down on the uh countertop in the kitchen doing this. Do you feel me? We see nothing what we doing is working. So we call uh the ambulance. 911. Who calls 911? Uh his lady, his girlfriend, my uh I call Yeah. She calling the ambulance telling them to rush here. Like please hurry up. Please can y’all hurry? Rush, please. Can you feel me? Then y’all was taking like over 20 30 minutes. So we just waiting. It’s still sitting here and he not he’s constantly uh you feel me? Like getting this little move and I see it’s not in his throat no more. It felt like it was lodged right here. When I was trying to go in here to his neck to get it out, he closing his mouth. He don’t want me in his like You feel me? Like he want me in his mouth. He closing it. You feel me? And that’s what’s made me hard for me to go in there cuz my hands are so thick. Well, you can feel you can feel it in just on it. You feel me? cuz it was too slippery. Did he say anything else to you? No. When I got to the house at I’m like, “What happened? How did he choke?” And then he was like, he had was wiping him down, the milk and stuff off him. He set the the um the nothing wet napkin, the wipe next to him and walked out the room. And when he came back, the wipe was inside the baby’s throat. You see it? He said he was trying to pull it out, but he couldn’t. It was his hand was too big. Back at the house, officers monitor the property, which has now been secured as a crime scene. Investigators arrive on site and begin discussing the details of the case. Once we got there, the nurses and the the doctors showed um Did you see the projectile? The well, not the little uh that was in its throat. Um yeah. How does a 3-month-old do that? Yeah, that doesn’t make sense. It’s a pretty big one. When they learn Cassandra’s two children also live in the home, some officers begin to speculate, unconvinced that what happened was merely an accident. Grab that thing. [Music] on the kids. Maybe the kid was crying and like the kid just the mom was check wasn’t going in super soon the child. So the kid just like I can’t see so I’m just shut him out you know. However, Cassandra tells investigators her two children weren’t home and the only child in the house was the three-month-old who had been sleeping in a bassinet next to his mother until she left for work. Investigators pose a critical question to the parents. Has your baby picked stuff up before and tried to eat it? Yeah, he Okay. He’s a advanced baby. He knows how to hold his own bottle. Like he he when you try to pull the bottle away from him, he like reaches to grab it back. He’ll pick it back up and put it back in his mouth. Okay. Does he ever put anything else in his mouth though besides the bottle? Any anything he grabs? You’re saying that he’s picked up stuff put stuff in his mouth before? Do you remember anything specific he’s ever put in his mouth besides the bottle? He’s ever picked something up. Candy, cookies, anything like what it is, he put it in his mouth. Yeah. You know, like I don’t know how to explain like a sock, he’ll do anything. Anything he seeuck, he’ll grab he can he can reach around and he can grab and he’ll even suck on you like no like that sound a little gay but no suck on your nose type. Yeah, I think it’s food. Yeah. Paramedics quickly arrived after the 911 call was placed, but once on scene, they said they were not notified that the 13-week old boy had an obstruction in his throat by anyone at the scene, including Tayvon, his brother Travier, or Cassendra. Did you tell them that thing went down his throat? Yeah, they knew they knew about all that. No. Yeah, we told them that, too. But uh they I’m talking about my uh brother and sister. They knew too, and they was trying to help. Did they tell him that on the phone? Uh-uh. I don’t know. Like sir, I the man when this was going on, I was Yeah, I mean, we’ll get a chance raing, crying, jumping everywhere. I I panicking. Trayvon insists the infant was still breathing when paramedics arrived. They told me he was they was able to get out like he was still moving is what I’m saying. Yeah, but you can move. You still have some air like oxygen in your blood a little bit. So, it it could have been like they killed my leg. Oh, no. They’ll contact you. Okay. When uh the funeral home can come pick him up. Okay. The medical examiner’s office would later determine the infant’s cause of death to be esphixxia by choking. Doubt still lingers over how it got in the infant’s mouth, as well as why paramedics weren’t informed of the obstruction. This brings both Cassandra and Tvon back for an interrogation where investigators seek to find the truth. When came in the door, what did he say to you? He said that um the baby’s choking. Help. Help. Okay. Did he say what he was choking on a wipe? Did he Did he actually tell you that at that point in time? Yes. He said that he was choking on a wipe and but I we didn’t see anything. We didn’t see the wipe. I’m looking like my biggest thing was call 911. I know we needed to start compression. Sure. His mouth was so small. So then I as I’m on the phone with 911, I took the step back like you said. um joints, CPR, the compressions and everything and his like he it seemed like he you know I thought was getting air and keep cuz he didn’t and then there was nothing. The question came up during the 911 call as the dispatcher attempted to guide her through performing CPR. Okay. Kneel next to the baby and look in his mouth for food or vomit. Is there anything in his mouth? No. At the house when we talked. What? You didn’t mention the word baby wipe to me at all. Yes, I did. Oh, yeah. You didn’t It was when we were recorded on the 911 call. Nobody mentioned baby wife. When the EMTs got there, nobody mentioned the baby wife. However, at the very start of the 911 call, a male’s voice can be heard shouting that something was in the infant’s mouth. EMS, what’s the address of the emergency? How the he get? Still, paramedics said they were never informed when they arrived. He told me in a thousand times that he was choking on a basement. He told you? How come no one told 911 that? So it was never said on the 911 like or I want to hear it because I know that they were screaming that he was choking on a baby wipe. Mention it to the EMTs. Don’t Don’t you think when a paramedic gets there that someone should say he has a baby wipe and Do you understand if you would have been there and all the going on? I literally was trying to get to the [ __ ] baby. So if you heard I’m like compression, tell me. I heard I tried to save that baby. There was nothing I could do. There’s nothing it could have done. There’s nothing. There’s nothing anyone could have done. When investigators bring up something she said back at the crime scene, it leads to frustration from Cassendra. What was the blood that you thought about seeing? Where was the play at? I didn’t see any blood. I never said that. You know, and the light did not. During their initial walkthrough of the crime scene, Cassandra mentioned what she was told by Travon. He said that he changed his diaper, was washing like wiped him up and everything, and that um he had just like a little scratch or something on his neck from cutting himself, and then one like on the side of his mouth. And he said he went to like wipe up just the blood and everything. And um he said walked away just for a couple of seconds and this is the outcome of that. I never said I You said you saw him wiping blood off. No, I didn’t say I saw I said he stop. Don’t do that cuz in a second. Come on. No. You That’s what you said. Okay. Don’t do that. He told me because I’m going to be like cuz I feel like because I’m telling you literally the most a long time and I feel like you can try to tell me what I’m saying and I tell you what I’m saying. Getting nowhere with Cassandra. Investigators wrap up the interview hoping Tayvon might provide the clarity she didn’t. He’s left alone for a few moments where he entertains himself while waiting for investigators. This is how we do. This is that we sure the camera’s still in there. Yes, it is. Detectives sit down with Tvon once again, but his interview begins with less cooperation than the first and quickly hits a wall. I know it’s it sucks, but we got to kind of figure out what happened here. Yeah, cuz we got a bunch of questions. Okay, so but before we ask the questions, we’re going to give you the random ones. Okay, I know, but I’m not speaking without my lawyer. Okay, that’s fine. Then we’re going to place you under arrest for murder of the baby. What? Based on the evidence that we have, ain’t no. Okay. Stand up. [Music] While we’re getting arrested, bro. Stuff in the rag. Why no rag, bro? What? Bro, what? Opportunity to explain how that red got what? But you don’t want to do that. So, we’ve talked to doctors. We talked to the medical examiner. We doing everything. Yes. Yes. Okay. I understand everything you’re saying. Yes. And every single one of those people talks that there’s no way that a 13-week old baby picked up. This is my son. Bald it up and put it I know he ain’t I’m not asking any questions. All right. Just as the detective makes his exit, his passing comment strikes a nerve. Good luck. All right. Good luck. So, uh, officer, come here. Come sit. Come now. Good. What you saying good luck to? I said good luck with your with your defense, with your case. Okay. Okay. All right. And I mean that. I hope that you can pull it off. Pull what officer? Get like the last get out of these charges. But you saying pull it off like it’s the last something officer. You said very very clearly that you tried to pull that rag out of that baby’s mouth. That don’t got no when I went in the room. My baby mama was on the phone the whole time. I don’t want to talk to you no more. Once the detective leaves, Trevion waits on his own with nothing but his thoughts. Boy, what the do I look like some sick individual to any of y’all? It’s okay. I bet you I’m going to win this. Watch this. Getting justice for my son. Arrested innocent boy. Murder. What? Sick white people. Well, I swear to God I hate racist people. Why they so racist? If I was white, white people would be so cruel. What? What the officers return and arrest 18-year-old Trayvon Hughes Senior, who was later charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, and two counts of endangering children. He entered a plea of not guilty on July 28th, 2022, choosing to present his defense at trial. According to news reports, while awaiting trial, Tayvon and Asiana welcomed another child whose young voice can be heard in a call between the two parents from jail. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, miracle. Hey, daddy. Hey, daddy. Baby. Daddy. Stop abusing me. My baby. My baby. Babe, let her hit you. What the hell? Don’t have her cry. Let her hit me. Let her hit you. I am baby. She can hit me all the she wanted. What you see waving? My baby can slap me if she wants to. Say bye-bye. During Tayvon’s trial, which began on May 22nd, 2024, Aciana testified that she was on FaceTime with Trayvon at the time of the incident and that she saw him pick up the baby and run out of the room after screaming that he was choking. Tests of the baby wipe revealed the infant’s DNA was present, but there was no trace of Trayvons. However, while both parents told investigators the infant would regularly grab things and put them in his mouth, a forensic pathologist with the Kyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office testified that a 13-week old doesn’t have the dexterity and ability to force a wipe to the back of their throat, arguing it had to have been placed there intentionally. Ultimately, the jury found Trevon guilty. The baby’s mother defended Trayvon during a court hearing, telling the judge he was making a mistake. Trevon was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. An appeal was later filed, arguing that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove Trevon forced a baby wipe down his son’s throat. The appeals court rejected the claims and upheld his conviction. If you’d like to see select

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