JERMAINE McNEIL -10 yo and Ju'TYRA ALLEN -6 yo (2011) - Delray Beach FL

Rare adoption ends with mom and kids dead

A mother, stripped of all rights to her oldest
child, later was allowed to adopt him. The two and a younger daughter
are now dead, raising questions about whether the state should have
allowed the adoptions.

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When Jermaine McNeil was 5, the Department of Children &
Families decided it best that he be raised by someone other than his mom
— a woman with more than a dozen arrests and a string of fleeting
relationships. When Jermaine was 8, DCF did an about-face:
Felicia Brown, stripped of her parental rights just three years earlier,
was now deemed capable enough to adopt her own son from foster care. The state sweetened the pot with an adoption subsidy worth hundreds of dollars a month.

The highly unusual adoption — at a time when Brown was known to
be involved in a dangerous love triangle — would have tragic
consequences. Jermaine and his younger sister Ju’tyra were
discovered dead March 2, stuffed inside luggage floating in a canal
along the Delray Beach-Boca Raton border. Their mother was dead, too,
though authorities didn’t know it at the time. A “Jane Doe’’ body
from August turned out to be Felicia Brown – identified through the
names of her three children tattooed on her body. Her body had been dumped at a West Palm Beach landfill. Felicia Brown’s off-again/on-again boyfriend, Clem Beauchamp —
two-thirds of the love triangle – has been identified as a suspect in
the killings. He’s currently jailed on a weapons offense, but has not
been charged with murder. The case has renewed questions – raised
first last month following the beating death of 10-year-old Nubia
Barahona — about whether the agency’s fast-tracking of potentially risky
adoptions has put children in harm’s way. Adoptive parents
Carmen and Jorge Barahona were approved for adoption despite concerns
raised by school officials that Nubia was petrified of Carmen, who, she
said, beat her feet with sandals. “What we seem to have here is
somewhat of a rush to judgment where we’re off and running to the races
toward adoption – let’s get the other stuff out of the way,’’ children’s
advocate David Lawrence Jr., said Monday on a panel studying Nubia’s
death for DCF. “Red flags ought to come up every step of the way instead of ‘we ought to get this adoption done.’ ’’ The Barahonas were both jailed on charges of murder and child abuse
after Nubia’s decomposed body was found in a garbage bag in Jorge
Barahona’s truck, her twin brother burned by chemicals in the truck’s
cab. DCF, which declined to release records on the Delray Beach
adoption, had been aware of the violent nature of the three-way
relationship involving Brown and Beauchamp. Six months before the
adoption was approved, Beauchamp’s former paramour, Michelle Dent, came
to the home shared by Beauchamp and Brown and held a knife to Brown’s
neck, threatening to kill her if she didn’t “stay out of my business.’’ The incident was reported to the state’s child-abuse hotline, meaning DCF had a record of it.QUESTIONS The deaths of the three children in such a short time span raise
troubling questions about a program that has been lauded in recent years
as singular evidence of Florida’s child welfare turnaround.In
the past decade, the number of Florida children adopted from foster care
has more than doubled, from 1,504 in budget year 2000 to 3,368 in 2010.
For the 12-month period ending June 30, Florida has so far reported
1,914 adoptions of foster children.
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A steady stream of grieving well-wishers flowed through St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Boynton Beach on Friday evening to pay their respects to the woman and children who are the focus of a murder investigation.

The service for Felicia Brown, 25, and siblings, Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10, began at 5 p.m. with a private family gathering led by the children's great-grandmother, Barbara Flint, 72.

Flint is the family's foundation, according to grandson Alvin Flint, 33, who's also Brown's cousin.

"It's really been rough for my grandmother because she's been through a lot," Alvin Flint said. "She's the strong one out of all of us, to keep the family together. If it weren't for her, we'd all be scattered."

The mood remained solemn in the cavernous church for several hours as other relatives, friends, neighbors and the public, many of them children, filed by the caskets.

Some lingered. Some prayed. Some cried.

Classmates at Pine Grove Elementary School in Delray Beach put together a video titled "Remembering Jermaine." It was shown at the church ceremony to showcase some of his talents.

"It's him singing, reciting a poem and just smiling and enjoying life," said Tolliver Miller, president of the Optimist Foundation of Boca Raton, which oversees Jermaine's football team, the Boca Jets.

Miller had a 2-foot-by-4-foot poster made of Jermaine in uniform, resembling a large football trading card. Miller plans to give it, and Jermaine's framed jersey, to his surviving sister, Jasmine, whom Brown gave up for adoption years ago.

Miller admits to being a little overwhelmed by how Jermaine's 10-year-old teammates are reacting to this tragedy.

"They're hurt," Miller said. "But, I'm proud because they've all dealt with this their own little way trying to create different ways to memorialize Jermaine."

He was a running back, defensive end and linebacker whose number 20 his teammates want to wear on their helmets and jerseys next season, Miller said.

They already have started a Facebook page in his honor and are coming up with fundraising events to help pay the family's funeral expenses, Miller said.

Most planned to attend Saturday's funeral.

"His little sister was a little cheer mascot who just floated from tent to tent," he said of Ju'Tyra who came to Jermaine's weekend games with mother Felicia Brown and her then-boyfriend Clem Beauchamp, the prime suspect in their murders.

"To find out that something like this could happen to one of our kids, the way it was actually done and the way they were actually disposed of hurts even worse," Miller said.

"Jermaine was a wonderful athlete and a competitor," Miller said. "He wanted to win. He got angry and he would go out and use that adrenaline to excel at his level of play and I would just like people to remember him as a happy, fun-loving kid."

People will get that chance.

The children were found stuffed in luggage on March 2 in the C-15 canal, which divides Delray Beach and Boca Raton.

Felicia Brown's body was found on Aug. 16 at the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority processing facility but was tentatively identified only last week when investigators matched tattoos on her leg with the names of her children.

The funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturday at St. John Missionary Baptist Church at 900 N. Seacrest Blvd., in Boynton Beach, followed by the burial in Delray Beach.

Miller is raising money for the family through the nonprofit Optimist Foundation of Boca Raton. Donations can be made in the name of Jermaine McNeil at any Wachovia Bank using the account number 2000051864183.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, at 188 S. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach, also started a fund to cover funeral expenses. Those wishing to help can write checks to the church in care of the Brown/Allen family.

Wednesday 16th March 2011
VIOLENT FELON WENT UNNOTICED
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/violent-felon-went-unnoticed-in-case-involving-two-1324480.html
Four agencies were tasked in 2008 with
ensuring that Jermaine McNeil would be safe living with his troubled
mother, but none of them divined that the woman was engaged to marry a
violent felon -- a man who now is suspected of killing her, Jermaine and
his 6-year-old sister.The failure occurred even though the
relationship was made clear in numerous public records, documents that
were available at the time to case managers, attorneys and social
workers, according to interviews and a Palm Beach Post review of police
reports and court filings.If any of the four public or private
organizations that vet adoptions had learned that Felicia Brown was
intimately involved with Clem Beauchamp, who was convicted of felony
aggravated assault in 1996, the discovery would have slowed or even
scuttled Brown's adoption of Jermaine.But no one -- not a
dependency case manager from the nonprofit Children's Home Society, nor
an adoption specialist from the same organization, nor a court-appointed
guardian ad litem, nor a representative of the Foster Children's
Project -- caught on to Brown's entanglement with Beauchamp."I
don't have an answer for how four different people out there, in all
that time, never came across him," said Judith Karim, CEO of Child and
Family Connections, which contracts with the Florida Department of
Children and Families to handle community-based care in Palm Beach
County. "Nobody is more surprised than we are."As a result,
Jermaine, 10, was living with his sister, Ju'Tyra Allen, at Beauchamp's
Delray Beach home last summer, when Brown's decomposing body was found
at a county garbage dump in West Palm Beach. She was 25. Seven months
later, police found the bodies of Jermaine and Ju'Tyra floating in a
canal between Delray Beach and Boca Raton. The children had been stuffed
into bags and tossed into the water, police said.Beauchamp, 34, is the sole suspect in all three killings, police said, but he hasn't been charged.That
Brown even was considered as a candidate to adopt Jermaine was a rarity
for DCF, which had successfully pushed to strip her of her parental
rights to the boy in 2005. But after an out-of-state family tried and
failed to adopt Jermaine, and he did a turbulent stint in Florida foster
care, the Legal Aid Society's Foster Children's Project approached
Brown about adopting her son.By then it was early 2008, and Brown
appeared to have settled down. In 2005, she had completed a parenting
program, underwent individual therapy sessions, attended a domestic
violence program and got outpatient substance abuse treatment. The state
had reunited her with Ju'Tyra in late November 2006, according to a DCF
report prepared Monday for a state Senate committee. DCF made the
report public Tuesday along with about 40 pages of other records.Between
February and September of 2008, the Children's Home Society, a
subcontractor hired by Child and Family Connections, conducted two
studies of Brown's home in Boynton Beach, and concluded both times it
was a safe place for Jermaine to live.A state adoption review
committee met twice to discuss Brown's criminal record -- she had been
arrested 16 times on charges varying from burglary to grand theft auto,
but was never convicted -- and both times ruled that she was fit to
raise the boy.At a news conference on Tuesday, DCF Southeast
Regional Director Perry Borman said every child welfare official
involved in the case supported Brown's adoption of Jermaine. "We did our
job" in making sure Jermaine and Ju'Tyra were safe with their mother,
Borman said.Although Brown pushed to adopt Jermaine by herself,
Brown and Ju'Tyra lived as a family with Brown's husband, Peter Brown,
whom she had married in September 2005, state workers observed. He was a
mild-mannered man with no criminal record. The overall impression was
of a safe and caring household, officials said Tuesday.In
reality, interviews and court records show, Brown was involved with
Beauchamp since at least March 2005 -- a relationship marked by an ugly
custody battle for Beauchamp's children and violent confrontations with
his ex-girlfriend, Michelle Dent.Ju'Tyra's paternal grandmother,
Judy Allen, told The Post that Brown married Peter Brown as a kind
gesture toward a Jamaican-born man who badly needed U.S. citizenship.By
March 2008, Beauchamp was described in police reports as Brown's
"live-in" boyfriend. That June, Brown wrote in a sworn statement taken
by Delray Beach police that Beauchamp was her fiancé. During a family
court hearing in August 2008, Brown testified on Beauchamp's behalf in a
battle for custody of his children.
Case managers and attorneys saw none of these records, said Karim,
the Child and Family Connections CEO. She said the home study and
pre-adoption screening process doesn't call for a review of police calls
for service to homes or require a search of police records for the
names of prospective adoptive parents.Even records kept in DCF's
own files could have hinted at what really was going on as Brown was
working to adopt Jermaine, if only a child protective investigator had
included more information in a report. On March 18, 2008, days after
Jermaine was placed back into Brown's home, Dent threatened Brown with a
knife as Dent's children looked on, according to police and DCF
reports.Although Brown said Dent attacked her for supporting
Beauchamp, and the confrontation occurred inside Brown's house, a DCF
investigative report omitted those and other basic details. It didn't
even mention Brown by name, Karim said. No one at DCF contacted Child
and Family Connections about the incident - or even signaled that they
knew Brown's adoption proceedings were pending.On Nov. 14, 2008, a
judge, believing Jermaine was going to live with Felicia and Peter
Brown in Boynton Beach, finalized the adoption. Karim remembered that
the subcontracted case manager had been especially proud, saying it was
the type of moment that made the job worthwhile."This," the case manager had told Karim, "is one of the happiest things I've done in my career."

Canal deaths suspect Clem Beauchamp pleads not guilty in unrelated gun case




The man police call their only suspect in the deaths of two children found in a South Florida canal has pleaded not guilty to unrelated gun charges.
Thirty-four-year-old Clem Beauchamp made the plea in federal court Monday morning in West Palm Beach after a judge appointed a public defender on his behalf.
Beauchamp has not been charged in the deaths of 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil and 6-year-old Ju'tyra Allen, but police say he is their only suspect. They also believe he was involved in the death of the children's mother, 25-year-old Felicia Brown, whose body was found in a landfill last August.
He is being held on federal firearms charges unrelated to those deaths.

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/canal-deaths-suspect-clem-beauchamp-pleads-not-guilty-in-unrelated-gun-case

DCF 'did its job' in case of 2 children found dead in Delray canal, and their slain mom


DCF records detail life of abuse, neglect before mom, two kids killed

WEST PALM BEACH
Officials
with the Florida Department of Children and Families on Tuesday said
the agency "did its job" in the handling of a case involving a mother
and her two young children later found dead in Palm Beach County.

Perry
Borman, the DCF Circuit Administrator in Palm Beach County, prefaced
that statement by praising Felicia Brown, 25, for overcoming an abusive
childhood that continued through at least two of three teen pregnancies
and ultimately resulted in state-approved reunions with son Jermaine
McNeil, 10, and daughter Ju'Tyra Allen, 6.

Brown's body was found
in a West Palm Beach trash dump in August and was tentatively
identified earlier this month when the bodies of her two children were
found stuffed in luggage and floating in a Delray Beach canal on March 2. Their names were tattooed on her leg, police said.

The
abuse investigations involving Brown ended in 2005 and her child
custody cases were resolved by 2008, according to DCF files released on
Tuesday.

"Felicia Brown had demonstrated she deserved the chance
to have her children back and that's the decision that we supported,"
Borman said.

But Brown's problems began years earlier when she
was known by her maiden name, Felicia Flint, and was listed as a victim
of abuse 10 times by the age of 14, according to DCF.

When she
was 14, she gave birth to Jermaine while living with her mother in Lake
Worth. Over the next few years, Brown and Jermaine were listed as
victims of abuse and neglect in five cases.

In those reports,
Brown accused her mother, Suzanne Flint, of kicking and beating her with
a belt, according to the records. Investigators who visited their home
saw beds stained with urine and a butcher's knife on the couch. Jermaine
had dirty diapers and a swollen belly button.

Jermaine and Brown
were placed in foster care when she was 15. Two years later she gave
birth to a baby girl with the initials J.G., who was later put up for
adoption. When Brown was 19, she gave birth to Ju'Tyra, who was
immediately put in the care of the father's mother.

Eventually,
Jermaine was put up for adoption and moved out of state. The adoption
fell through after the prospective parents complained about Jermaine's
aggressive behavior.

In 2006 she was reunited with Ju'Tyra, and two years later she adopted Jermaine on National Adoption Day.

Attorney
ad litem Jennifer Gardner, choked back tears at Tuesday's DCF news
conference as she described the lengths to which Brown went to get her
children back.

"[Jermaine] wanted to go home to his mom," Gardner
said. "As soon as we notified [Felicia Brown] that it was an option,
she said 'I will do whatever I need to do to get him home.'"

Brown completed parenting classes, therapy sessions, a domestic violence program and substance abuse treatment, according to the records.

She had been caring for Ju'Tyra for two years without state help and was living in Boynton Beach, married to Peter Brown.

"The
adoption process was better vetted than your standard adoption," said
Judith Karim, CEO of Child and Family Connections, a nonprofit agency
contracted by the state to handle child placement cases.

"The
Felicia we knew would have died to protect these children," said John
Walsh, lead attorney with the Foster Children Project, who once
represented Jermaine's interests.

That's why Walsh is urging the
public not to "further victimize" Brown and her children by comparing
their case to that of Jorge and Carmen Barahona who are charged with the
death of adopted daughter Nubia and the attempted murder of her twin
brother Victor, last month.

Dozens of DCF documents outlined the
abuse and neglect that thrust Felicia Brown and her children in and out
of foster care over the years.

DCF said when it last checked on Brown in 2008, she was living at an address in Boynton Beach. Caseworkers were unaware that she had been missing from her home since August, or that Jermaine and Ju'Tyra were living in Delray Beach with their mother's ex-boyfriend.

The
ex-boyfriend, Clem Beauchamp, 34, is now a suspect in the childrens'
murders, but he has not been charged in their deaths or in the death of
Brown. He is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail on unrelated federal weapons charges.

Brown
may have been killed because she was a potential witness against
Beauchamp in the gun case, federal prosecutors said in a hearing earlier
this month. The pair had a relationship that began in 2007, according
to her relatives.

"No matter what job we do sometimes, even when we do the best job, it ends up in tragedy," Borman said.

As the prime suspect in the deaths of two children found floating in a Delray Beach
canal goes on trial Monday, new information has revealed that someone
in his home did computer searches on life insurance for kids.
Clem
Beauchamp, 34, will not be on trial for murder. Rather, he faces
federal charges of illegally possessing a handgun and homemade silencer
that could put him in prison for up to 30 years. Although the case is
unrelated to any homicides, the absence of a murdered woman will loom
large over the trial.
Beauchamp's on-and-off girlfriend, Felicia
Brown, 25, was the mother of the two dead children, and she would have
been a key witness against Beauchamp had she not turned up dead herself
at a Palm Beach County trash processing plant in August.
Federal
prosecutors said in court documents filed Friday that they can prove
Beauchamp killed Brown, if need be. She disappeared just after agreeing
to cooperate against Beauchamp in the gun case and to meet with a
federal agent, prosecutors wrote. Beauchamp also reportedly confessed to
another detainee after his arrest.


http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-07-30/news/fl-clem-beauchamp-gun-trial-20110729-21_1_clem-beauchamp-gun-trial-gun-charges

September 22nd, 2011

The lone suspect in the grisly discovery of two children found stuffed in luggage in a Delray Beach canal has been charged with their murder and that of their mother, who was found in a trash landfill.

Clem Beauchamp, 38, the mother's ex-boyfriend, was indicted on three counts of first degree
murder, State Attorney Michael McAuliffe announced Thursday afternoon at a press conference in Palm Beach County.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty on each of the three counts, McAuliffe said.

"When a child dies in our community, we all suffer a loss," he said. "This case really struck at
the heart of sort of an emotional response in law enforcement and
prosecutors' offices. We were determined to try to solve these
homicides individually and then collectively, an d today's grand jury
indictment reflects that..dogged determination."

The bodies of 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil and his 6-year-old sister Ju'tyra Allen floated to the
surface of a Delray Beach canal March 2. The girl's body was stuffed into a duffel bag, the boy's in a suitcase.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/130361933.html

Great-grandmother of victims speaks out on Clem Beauchamp's indictment
"No sentence can bring my granddaughter back."


Posted: 6:46 PM
Last Updated: 50 minutes ago
By: LIz Flynn
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - News that Clem Beauchamp had been indicted brought out emotions for Felicia Brown’s family. They only learned what happened to her after police identified the bodies of her children, Ju’Tyra Allen and Jermaine McNeil, seven months after Felicia’s murder.
Felicia’s grandmother fears nothing will heal her broken heart.
"I've never seen anybody like him,” she said. “How would he like to see his (great)grandchildren in suitcases?"
Barbara Flint has three empty places in her family and her heart. In March, she found out her great-grandchildren, six year old Ju'Tyra Allen and ten year old Jermaine McNeil, had been murdered, their bodies stuffed in suitcases in a canal. It was shortly after that she learned the body of her granddaughter, the children's mother, Felicia Brown, had been discovered in a landfill. She had been missing since August. The man now facing the death penalty for their murders is Felicia’s boyfriend, Clem Beauchamp.
"I don't know how a man could be so cold blooded to do something like that,” said Flint. It hurts the family and there’s no money that can pay us for the pain that we've gone through."
Flint says Felicia was a kind woman and a hard worker, who supported Beauchamp and her children. She still remembers the last time she saw her granddaughter. Felicia was getting her hair done before a job interview.
"That's the last time I saw my baby,” she said, wiping away tears. “She kept holding my hand and she was just holding it so tight."
After she didn't see Felicia for a long time, she said Beauchamp told her Felicia was hiding from police.
“When I wanted to go see her, he told me, “No. Don’t go. You can’t go,” she said. “He knew there was no Felicia!”
Her most chilling memory is her last time seeing Ju'Tyra and Jermaine.
"The last morning he brought the two children to my house and told me he brought them here to say goodbye to me. That somebody was going to come by and pick them up. Felicia was sending somebody to pick them up," she said. "Now they're dead and gone and no money can bring them back. No sentence can bring them back."
NewsChannel 5 has also tried to reach out to Clem Beauchamp’s family. We had no response.



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Fort Lauderdale—
The man charged with killing two children found in a Delray Beach
canal in March and the earlier murder of their mother was sentenced to
10 years in prison Tuesday on an unrelated federal gun charge.

Clem Beauchamp, 34, has been held in federal custody since the day after
the bodies of the children were found in the canal dividing Boca Raton and Delray Beach,
stuffed into luggage. He pleaded guilty in August to possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Beauchamp received the stiffest
possible sentence from U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas, who
determined that Beauchamp bought the gun and built the silencer as part
of a plot to murder his "baby mama" — one of his girlfriends, Michelle Dent.

Moments before the sentence was handed down, Beauchamp
was given the opportunity to address the court. He declared he was not
involved in a murder conspiracy.

"I was never involved in a murder plot. I never murdered anybody. Thank
you," he told Dimitrouleas. He stood at the defense table, shackled and
handcuffed, with his head bowed as the judge handed down the prison sentence.

Now that his federal case has been resolved, Palm Beach County
prosecutors can move forward with their case involving three counts of
first-degree premeditated murder filed in state court in late September.

Beauchamp could face the death penalty if convicted of the homicides of
Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, who were living with
Beauchamp in his Delray Beach home since the disappearance last summer of their mother, Felicia Brown, 25.

Brown's decomposing body was found in August 2010 at a trash-processing
facility in West Palm Beach. She had been Beauchamp's on-and-off
girlfriend, and her body went unidentified until the deaths of her
children. Brown had their names tattooed on her leg, leading to her identification.

Beauchamp killed Brown by "unspecified means,"
according to the murder charges filed last month, while Jermaine was
killed by blunt force trauma and Ju'Tyra was asphyxiated.

So far, Palm Beach County
prosecutors have revealed none of the evidence they have gathered
against Beauchamp, and the grand jury indictment provided no specifics
other than listing the three homicide charges.

In court documents filed earlier this year, federal prosecutors said that they
could prove Beauchamp murdered Brown, even though that murder was not
part of their firearms case. They said she likely was eliminated because
she was a key witness against him on the gun charge.

They also alleged Beauchamp admitted to Brown's murder to another jail inmate,
and that a forensic analysis of his seized computers showed someone in
his home had searched the Internet for information about life insurance for children.

The firearms charge against Beauchamp arose through pure chance,
when Brown's car was repossessed from his Delray Beach
home in October 2009. A tow-yard employee searching the car found a
black bag in the trunk, containing a .22-caliber revolver, a homemade
silencer, 12 rounds of ammunition, a black knit cap and a cigar tube
containing fake pieces of crack cocaine.

When Brown went to collect her car, she told one of the employees that the items found in
the trunk belonged to her boyfriend, according to the federal charges against Beauchamp.

Beauchamp pleaded guilty to the gun charge
after the judge ruled that prosecutors still would be able to present
evidence against Beauchamp from Brown, in the form of a secretly
recorded conversation made by her ex-husband, Peter Brown. In that
recording, Felicia Brown said she bought the gun for Beauchamp, and that
he had fashioned the silencer.

Federal prosecutors called Peter Brown to testify at Beauchamp's sentencing,
to show that Beauchamp was involved in the plot to murder Dent.
That allowed the judge to increase Beauchamp's prison sentence by about six years.

Peter Brown said his ex-wife told him about the plan for Beauchamp to kill
Dent. He said Dent and Beauchamp were fighting over child custody and support issues.

"They got the gun so he could take care of his baby mama, get rid of his baby mama," Peter Brown testified.

Beauchamp's public defender, Robert Berube, tried to undermine Peter
Brown's credibility, but the judge said he found him believable. Berube
said he would appeal the sentence.

In the meantime, it is likely Beauchamp will be transferred to the Palm Beach County Jail to await trial on the murder charges.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/fl-beauchamp-gun-sentencing-20111011,0,4399056.story

February trial date set for Delray man accused of killing mom, 2 kids

By Daphne Duret and Cynthia Roldan, The Palm Beach Post
9:19 p.m. EST, December 14, 2011

A judge has set a tentative early trial date for a Delray Beach man charged with the murders of his former girlfriend and her children.

Clem Beauchamp is being held in a federal facility in Virginia where he is appealing a 10-year prison term for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Prosecutors submitted paperwork to federal authorities to get Beauchamp back in state custody for Wednesday's hearing, but attorneys told Circuit Judge Richard Oftedal that Beauchamp declined a legal provision that would have gotten him back in state custody sooner.

Oftedal rescheduled the status check for Jan. 18, but because Beauchamp has not yet waived his right to a speedy trial, the judge also set the case for trial in the week of Feb. 27.

Beauchamp is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Felicia Brown, of West Palm Beach, and her children, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/delray-beach/pb-clem-beauchamp-trial-date-20111214,0,6053159.story

Clem Beauchamp in custody at Palm Beach County Jail, could face trial as early as Feb. 27

Posted: 8:07 AM
Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

• By: Maxim Alter



Clem Beauchamp, the Delray Beach man charged in the slayings of his former girlfriend and her two children, is in custody at Palm Beach County Jail Wednesday and could face trial as early as Feb. 27, according to court documents.

Beauchamp was booked into the jail at 6:46 p.m. Tuesday after previously being held in a federal facility in Virginia where he was appealing a 10-year prison term he received for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.

Beauchamp was indicted in September on three first-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of Felicia Brown, of West Palm Beach, and her two children, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6.

The children were found stuffed in suitcases in a Delray Beach canal in March. Brown was found at a landfill last year.


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Documents: Clem Beauchamp used son to help dump children's bodies in Delray Beach canal


PBSO Clem Beauchamp



courtesy Ju'Tyra Allen



Enlarge Photo A family photo of Jermaine McNeil.



PBSO Felicia Brown in 2006.


Children found dead in Delray canal »


By Michael LaForgia and Daphne Duret

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 9:14 a.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012

Posted: 9:42 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, 2012


WEST PALM BEACH — The bags were dark and heavy as the boy and his father
hauled them from the family's blue Oldsmobile Cutlass. Together, they
grunted and strained - "a good workout," his father had called it -
until the pair had muscled the bags up and into the canal.

Demetrius Beauchamp, then 15, never questioned the strange chore he did with his
father, Clem Beauchamp, the boy said later in a statement to
investigators. Nor did he suspect it was connected to the disappearance
of his stepbrother and stepsister in February 2011.

Days later, the bodies of Demetrius' playmates, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra
Allen, 6, bobbed to the surface of the C-15 canal between Delray Beach
and Boca Raton, shrouded in oversized luggage and loaded down with
35-pound barbell weights.

Soon after, police announced that the
children's mother had been identified as the nameless woman whose body
was discovered at a county garbage dump months earlier.

The teen's chilling account was part of more than 1,000 pages of documents
made public today in the state's first-degree murder case against Clem
Beauchamp, a case in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Among the new details:

-
The children's mother, Felicia Brown, likely was murdered by
asphyxiation, though the poor condition of her body made it impossible
to say for sure, the medical examiner's office concluded.

Jermaine, who died by blunt force trauma, had his jaw broken in at least two
places and a tooth cracked. Ju'Tyra had likely had duct tape wrapped
tightly around her mouth when her body was tossed into the water.

-
A key part of the prosecution's case against Beauchamp hinges on
statements made by a felon, Arthur Lee Harmon II, 33, who shared a jail
cell with Beauchamp in March 2011 and who was facing prosecution for
federal gun charges. Prosecutors later asked a judge for leniency during
Harmon's sentencing hearing, citing his cooperation.

- Beauchamp insisted to detectives that a man named Mike, Felicia Brown's new
boyfriend, had taken custody of the children, although investigators
quickly poked holes in the story.

The investigation that led to
Beauchamp's arrest began March 2, 2011, when the bodies of two small
children were found wrapped in luggage and discarded in the south county
canal. A day later, Beauchamp went to Delray Beach police and told them
that the murdered kids might belong to Brown, his ex-fiancee. He was
taken into custody that night on an unrelated federal gun charge, giving
detectives more time to build a case against him.

Beauchamp shared a jail cell with Harmon, who previously had been convicted of
crimes ranging from grand theft auto to aggravated assault with a
weapon. He now was facing federal gun charges.

Harmon told investigators Beauchamp confessed to the killings, saying Brown
"deserved to die, but the kids, you know I don't know why I did that to the kids."

Harmon said Beauchamp told him he "squeezed the baby" - Ju'Tyra - in his arms until she died.

Harmon would plead guilty in his federal gun case, and the prosecutor - the
same assistant state attorney who handled Beauchamp's gun charge -
recommended Harmon receive a reduced sentence in exchange for his
cooperation. He got two years in prison.

Convicted in his federal gun case, Beauchamp was sentenced to 15 years last year. He's now appealing.

The documents also raised questions about Michelle Dent, who was living
with Beauchamp when the children were murdered. Investigators learned
that a woman matching her description applied for and received a tax
refund of more than $7,000 in Brown's name.

The Florida Department of Children and Families said Dent had posed as Brown in
August 2010 and requested that Brown's state subsidy checks be sent to a
different address. Since then, five of Brown's checks totaling $2,000 were cashed.

Dent failed key parts of a lie detector test,
according to an examiner, including when asked whether she killed
Felicia Brown, coached her kids for police interviews and knew who had
murdered Brown, Jermaine and Ju'Tyra.

Police have said Dent never
was a suspect in the killings, although a DCF investigator called her a
person of interest in a 2011 hearing. Dent hasn't been charged with a
crime.

The documents also described strange behavior by Beauchamp
after the children disappeared. A friend of Beauchamp and Dent said she
was with the couple when news first spread that children's bodies had
been found. She said Beauchamp vomited and rolled on the ground, acting
hysterical.

On March 3, the day Beauchamp was arrested, he and
Dent went to Jermaine and Ju'Tyra's school to answer questions about the
children's absence. A school official asked Beauchamp where the
children were. She told police he didn't respond immediately. She said
he stared blankly, looking at no one in particular, and mumbled
something she recalled more than a month later:

"They're with her mother," Beauchamp said.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/documents-clem-beauchamp-used-son-to-help-dump-2325551.html

This man is a waste of oxygen.

I wonder if the poor murdered woman knew what a monster he was.