The Tragic Case of Wyllow Brewer
00:03 Willow Brewer was born on August 16th, 2016 to mother Kylie Marie Brewer. In news sources, it appears Willow's father has asked to have his name withheld from media publications. My reg league goalie says he plays for the love of the game. You gave up six goals last week, Steve? Maybe play to win, huh? Like with Bet365, I get paid the second my team goes out big with early payout and can cash out at any time before the game ends. Come on, Steve.
00:33 The home of winning early. Must be 19 and older. Ontario only. Please play responsibly. If you were someone you know is concerns about gambling, visit connectsontario.ca. Or call 18665 through 1.2600. Terms and conditions apply. Kylie said that Willow was a little bit behind for a baby her age and that she couldn't sit up on her own or roll all the way from her front to her back. Tori Wine Master, who worked with Kylie, had met Willow a few times. She said, her smile was amazing and she was just so cuddly.
01:03 She just melted in my arms. Willow lived with Kylie and her live-in boyfriend, John Paul Bogdanovich Jr. Their home was on the 2,900 block of West Catapa Trail in Tucson, Arizona. Kylie was 19 at the time and John Paul was 18 and the couple worked at a local target. The house was also home to 14 cats and two dogs. According to Kylie, she first used methamphetamine at 13 years old, but never around Willow. She said she wasn't addicted. and that she took meth purely for pain from scoliosis and other chronic problems.
01:39 Kylie's father said he wasn't concerned about Kylie and John Paul. Kylie's mother said she suspected the two of them were on drugs and that there was something off about them. Willow's grandmother on her father's side said she had concerns that Willow was being neglected and that she knew drugs were in the house. Willow's father said Kylie was emotionally unattached their daughter, saying she would sit on the phone and ignore her while she screamed. He also knew of two of Kylie's friends, Kaylee Gossett and Brianna Rady. According to Willow's father, Kaylee and Brianna used and sold heroin, and it concerned him that they were looking after Willow. Kaylee was 22 and Brianna was 26. Kylie said they were friends who would turn up when they needed
02:20 somewhere to stay and that they didn't actually live there. Roring to Kylie, Kaylee babysat Willow five or six days a week. One of Kaylee's relatives said that Kaylee got room and bored in return for looking after Willow. According to Kaylee, back when she first met her, Willow was always happy. Kaylee said that she used and sold drugs but never sold them while Willow was in her care. In February of 2017, Willow's father asked the Pima County Sheriff's Office to do a welfare check on his daughter. According to Willis father, Kylie had put up Facebook photos of her arm with fresh needle marks on it. Deputies went to the home and Kylie denied using any drugs.
02:57 They found Willow clean with no signs of injury. And according to Sheriff's records, she appeared. to be in good health. Our fantasy commission says for him it's all about the friendships. Cute, Kevin, but I disagree. Like with Bet365. I get paid the second my team goes up big with early payout and can cash out at any time before the game ends.
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03:30 Or call 1866 5 through 1.26. 600. Terms and conditions apply. Willow's father said that the next day he went to the home himself and he could see Willow's shoulder was dislocated with blood on her fingers and inside her nose. According to Willis father, all four of them were at the home that day, Kylie, John Paul, Kaylee, and Brianna. John Paul said that on February 14th, Kylie called him to come home. He said Kylie told him Willow's shoulder got caught in the crib and was dislocated and that he needed to pop it back into place, which he said he did. Kylie and John Paul both said. said they used meth on February 14th, Valentine's Day.
04:06 John Paul said they had planned to bring Willow to urgent care. Corina Kylie, she was in the hospital with pneumonia for four days and was discharged on February 18th. Kylie said she had asked Kaylee and another friend to stay over and look after Willow until she got out of the hospital. Kylie's mother said she offered to take Willow during Kylie's hospital stay. He was told the baby would be fine with Kaylee and Brianna. In a Kylie, Kaylee messaged her on Facebook that Willow had come down with a cold. Kaylee, however, claims that she told Kylie that Willow had a fever and was lethargic and that Willow needed to go to the hospital. And I know this is confusing, so to be very clear, Kylie is Willow's mother and Kaylee is the friend.
04:47 Kylie said that once she was home, she had to leave for work and that Kaylee and the other friend kept watching Willow. They left when Kylie got home shortly before 10 p.m. Corring to Kaylee, Willow was feverish and lethargic and wouldn't eat. Her arm looked completely limp and her voice was so raspy that she could not cry. Kaylee said she had seen Willow's injured arm and told Kylie and John Paul to get her to a hospital and that as far as she knew, they never did so. She was asked why she hadn't taken Willow herself. Kaylee said she wasn't her parent, so it wasn't her place.
05:23 Kaylee told the story of that night two different ways. First, Kaylee said she stayed in Willow's room while the baby was asleep, then left pretty early in the morning. Then Kaylee said she had actually spent the night on the couch, and in that version, Kaylee said she told Kylie and John Paul that Willow should sleep with them so they could better hear her since she was having trouble crying. On the morning of February 19, 2017, Willow was found unresponsive. Kylie and John Paul said that John Paul found her in the crib and called 911. but on the 911 recording, the sheriff's office released. The caller says she's Willow's mother. She said, my daughter, we woke up and she wasn't breathing.
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06:33 BetMGEM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. John Paul said he yelled to Kylie to call 911 and that he heard someone run out the door. According to John Paul, Kaylee and Brianna were asleep on the couch that morning. Kaylee said she was in the house when John Paul called 911, but Kiley also said she was in the house. when John Paul found Willow and that he told her and Brianna to leave after that. Deputies headed to the house shortly before noon and after a report came in that a child wasn't breathing. Deputies saw that Willow was blue and that there was blood in her nose and mouth. The Mountain Vista fire district took her to Banner University Medical Center.
07:17 By the time she got there, doctors believed she had already been dead for a while and had most likely died in her sleep. She had broken bones along with many signs of severe chronic CA. Her autopsy report lists her time of death as 1242 p.m. on February 19th. In its report of her death, the Arizona Department of Child Safety, or DCS, said Willow was taken to the hospital in cardiac arrest and couldn't be resuscitated. She was only six months old. Willow's injuries included a bruise on her head, blood in her nose and mouth, broken bones in both arms and both legs, and her skin had started to marble. Deputies wrote that Willow had several bruises throughout her body. She had trauma to her nose and mouth, her nose was red, and she had bruises on her gums and lips.
08:08 Her right humorous was grossly displaced with a severe infection. Doctors also said her injuries were inconsistent with her ambulatory ability at six months old. Deputies searched the home and found a box of hypodermic needles in the best. bedroom, along with needles, holding an unknown substance, a digital scale, a wooden pipe, and multiple cell phones. Kylie and John Paul had said Willow was found in her crib, but to deputies, the crib looked undisturbed. A red substance turned up inside the crib, and swabs of it were sent to the lab for analysis. On the couch, another deputy saw a piece of baby clothing with blood on it as well. After Willow was taken to the hospital, deputies helped Kylie at the house for over three hours.
08:50 Kylie didn't ask once about her daughter. When deputy wrote, Mom has no emotion, no remorse. Never once has she asked to go to the hospital. The same records say Kylie talked more about her pets than she did about Willow and kept dodging questions by trying to round up her animals. So what happened to Willow? Our fantasy commission says for him it's all about the friendships.
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09:32 Please play responsibly. If you were someone you know is concerns about gambling, visit connectsontario.ca or call 18665 through 1,2600. Terms and conditions apply. For 50 years, Canadians have wondered what the names of IKEA furniture mean. Like Natopa, the guardrail for children's beds. Natopa means, your favorite person room to grow.
09:52 It means their safety and your piece of... No. In Swedish, not opa means night monkey. Mark! IKEA, 50 years of Swedishness at home. Look, he's wearing little pajamas. So cute. He was talked to suspects and witnesses that same day and the stories conflicted over who hurt Willow
10:15 and who was ultimately responsible for her death. Kylie first told deputies that Willow had no injuries. As deputies mentioned the broken arm, Kylie said Willow had dislocated her shoulder two weeks earlier trying to grab something. She said, it was on her right side and she was trying to reach over and grab it. She was using her left instead of using her right. Like use common sense child. The deputy said, it's a baby. Kylie also told investigators she thought Willow had hurt her shoulder by getting it stuck in the crib.
10:46 Kylie said she first saw bruises on Willow's head somewhere between two weeks and a month before her death. and that they looked like someone had been flicking her on the head. Kylie and John Paul said that after the friends had left her, they found bruises on her head, bite marks on her legs, and a two-inch laceration near her private areas. According to Kylie, she believed someone was harming Willow, but she didn't want to report it because she thought that she would be the one blame for it. Kylie said the reason she never reported Kaylee
11:13 was that Kaylee was threatening her, and at times kept her from seeing Willow entirely. According to Kylie, Kaylee threatened to go to, the police in DCS and report that Kylie was using drugs and hurting her daughter. At first, John Paul wasn't sure of Kaylee's name, then he said he barely knew her. Then John Paul said Kaylee was at the house every day, even though she didn't live there. John Paul said that Kaylee was the one who put Willow to bed every night since he and Kylie were usually working at that time. According to John Paul, he had seen Kaylee scream in Willow's face when she cried. In a week earlier,
11:48 he told Kylie he was worried that Kaylee might hurt Willow. Kylie and John Paul both said they had seen Kaylee smother Willow onto her chest by holding the back of her head so she would stop crying. For into John Paul, Kaylee was the last one with Willow, and he believed Kaylee killed her. Detectives challenged John Paul with a text message he had sent to Kaylee. In it, he wrote, I kind of feel like Willow's death is my fault, but I didn't really do anything because I wasn't around her that much, as much as much as I wanted to be because I was. have been working. John Paul said that he had seen bruises the size of dimes on Willow's head and bite marks on her leg and that her voice was gone so she couldn't cry anymore. John Paul said the bruises came from Willow punching herself in the face after she was put to bed and that he had seen her
12:34 do it before. The detective told him that it was not possible for a baby to punch herself in the face hard enough to leave a bruise. Haley denied ever-hurting Willow. She said over the past several months, Willow's behavior had changed and she stopped smiling. According to Kaylee, the change came after she started helping out, and Willow always had little scratches on her. She said she didn't know why Willow had any broken bones. According to Kaylee, Kylie had always seemed distant with Willow, and postpartum depression could have played a partner.
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13:34 with Eye Gaming Ontario. Kaylee said, she was more interested in the cats than the baby. Willow's father spoke to detectives by phone. He didn't know Willow had died and more than one story. the call, he asked how she was doing. When he got the news in a later call, he became openly
13:55 distraught and couldn't continue. Willow's autopsy took place on February 21st, 2017 at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner. Dr. Christopher Jeffrey performed it, and Dr. Cynthia Porterfield witnessed it. Willow's body arrived, wrapped in a white hospital blanket, in a cream-colored knitted blanket. At six months old, Willow weighed about 12 pounds, 13 ounces. The soft spot on the top of her head was mildly sunken in, and so was the skin between her ribs. The autopsy found three fractures. Willow's right arm was broken just above the elbow, and that break was displaced and infected. Her left arm was broken near the wrist.
14:36 Her left thigh bone was broken near the knee. The pathologist opened her right arm. The break was surrounded by bleeding and pus. The tissue inside her lower lip was torn and infected. She also had a laceration on her lower lip and abrasion around her nostrils and another on her chin. There were bruises and abrasions on her forehead, the right eyebrow and her scalp with bleeding underneath her scalp as well. She had abrasions and bruises on her arms and hands and a small abrasion on her backside. Under the skin of her right lower back, there was one small area of bleeding.
15:10 The autopsy report describes Willow's external private areas as those of a normal female infant enlist no injuries. However, conflicting police reports indicated a two-inch laceration. An essay kit was taken at the time of the examination, and it's unclear if there were any findings. However, I feel like if there were, those results probably would have been made public. Willow's stomach held about a teaspoon of liquid. Under a microscope, the tissue around the injuries to Willow's mouth and her broken right arm showed infection. There were bacterial colonies and tiny blood clots and multiple organs. which the report describes as consistent with sepsis.
15:51 Toxicology tests on her blood were negative for medications and drugs. Medical Examiner's report reads, The cause of death is ascribed to infectious complications of blunt force injuries with malnutrition as a significant contributing factor. Medical examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide. Kylie and John Paul were arrested on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, and each booked into the Pima County, on a single felony count of CA.
16:20 Kaylee was arrested the next day on the same charge. Just days later, both Kylie and John Paul made bond. On Sunday, March 5th, Kylie was arrested again, this time on charges of marijuana possession, possession of a dangerous drug, and possession of a controlled substance. In March, Kylie, John Paul, and Kaylee were indicted on first-degree murder and two counts of felony CA. According to the indictment... Fantasy Commission says for him it's all about the friendships. Cute, Kevin, but I disagree.
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17:09 Please play responsibly. If you were someone you know is concerns about gambling, visit connectsontario.ca. Or call 1866-5-3-1-2600. Terms and conditions apply. 50 years, Canadians have wondered what the names of IKEA furniture mean. Like Natopa, the guardrail for children's beds. Natopa means giving your favorite person room to grow.
17:29 It means their safety and your piece of... No. In Swedish, Natapa means night monkey. Mark! IKEA, 50 years of Swedishness at home. Look, he's wearing little pajamas. So cute. indictments between January 5th and February 19th, the three either intentionally injured Willow
17:52 or put her in a situation where her safety was at risk, which included exposing her to illegal drugs. Deputy P. McCowney attorney Alan Goodwin said that three were arraigned on those charges on March 16th. On Tuesday, March 21st, the sheriff's office fugitive investigation strike team arrested Brianna after an extensive search. She was charged with second-degree murder and two felony counts of CA, and her bond was set at $1 million. No details about her arrest were made public. Brianna appeared in court by video, and a judge entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf. On March 23rd, Kylie was booked into jail for the third time on fraud charges from the U.S.
18:36 postal inspector. She was held without bond. April 14, 2017, the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner released Willow's autopsy report. September of 2017, the Pima County County, attorney's office dropped all charges against Brianna. County attorney's office spokeswoman, Isabel Barul Smutzer, said she couldn't say anything more about the case. December 4th, 2017, prosecutors offered plea deals to Kylie, John Paul, and Kaylee. All three rejected them. By January 8th, 2018, a trial date had been set for the following year. It was expected to last
19:11 about two weeks. Kylie's attorney, Bobby Barry, said she couldn't be ready before December. because the expert witness she had hired was committed to another trial until then. Attorney Barry told Judge Kenneth Lee, this is a complicated case, and I think it's going to take that long to prepare anyways. At that point, Kylie was the only one of the three still in the Pima County Jail. In August of 2019, Kylie and John Paul decided to take plea deals. Kylie pled guilty to manslaughter, CA, and fraud. Judge Lee said she faced between 10 and a half and 21 years in prison. for the judge accepted her plea, Kylie told him,
19:49 I recklessly caused the death of Willow Brewer by leaving her in the care of my roommates who were on drugs and did not seek medical treatment. John Paul pled guilty to felony CA with death or serious injury likely. John Paul said he committed CA by putting Willow in a situation where her life was in danger and by not getting her medical attention. His plea deal required him to testify against Kaylee, and it depended on Kylie accepting hers.
20:14 Kaylee was set to go to trial in November of 2019 on first-degree murder in CA. Instead, on February 18, 2020, she pled guilty to manslaughter in CA. She faced up to 21 years in prison. All three were sentenced in Pima County Superior Court on August 24, 2020. Kylie was sentenced to 16 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections. Kaylee was sentenced to 10 and a half years, followed by 15 years of probation that could end early after 10 years. John Paul was sentenced to 15 years of probation, which could also end early after 10 years. On March 9th, 2017, DCS determined that Willow's death was the result of CA or neglect.
20:58 According to the department, it had never received a report involving Willow. DCS had also never received a report naming Kylie, John Paul, Kaylee, or Brianna as perpetrators. By March of 2017, hundreds of people had joined a Facebook group. called Justice for Baby Willow. Tori planned a candlelight vigil for Willow in front of a downtown library at 101 Northstone in Tucson. About 20 people came.
21:26 Tori said, I knew Baby Willow, and I felt that she deserves this. She deserves to feel the love. It hurts. It hurts because she didn't deserve this. Rose Silvestri created the Justice for Baby Willow group. Rose never met Willow.
21:42 She in the community raised money for a memorial. bench and on August 26, 2017, it was dedicated at the Children's Memorial Park at 701 West Edgewater Drive in Tucson. Rose said, thank you guys for supporting her and just keeping her name alive. She deserves this. She deserves something like this all along. She didn't deserve to die. I don't know her at all, but I just felt horrible that she had to die alone. Sarah Gardner brought her six-month-old daughter to the dedication. Sarah had met Willow and she knew some of the people in the case. She said, it touched me a lot seeing her bench today. She should have lived and had a life.
22:24 That's what she deserved. The organizers who had raised money for the bench said not one of Willow's immediate family members or relatives showed up for the dedication. Rose said, and nobody is defending Willow except for strangers. Willow would have turned one on August 16th. 2017. Her bench reads, in loving memory of Willow Brewer, you have left your imprint on so many hearts. My reg league goalie says he plays for the love of the game. You gave up six goals last week, Steve. Maybe play to win, huh? Like with Bet365, I get paid the second my team goes up big with early payout and can cash out at any time before the game ends. Come on, Steve, bet 365, the home of winning Must be 19 and older, Ontario only. Please play responsibly. If you were someone you know is concerns about gambling, visit connectsontario.ca or call 18665 through 1,2,600. Terms and conditions apply.
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