Bodies of 10 yr old Jermaine McNeil & 6 yr old Ju'tyra Allen found in Florida canal/Body of Felicia Brown, mom of slain children, found in landfill/Father found dead at suspect Clem Beauchamp's home in 2005/ Beauchamp's trial Sept 2013

Police are trying to identify the bodies of two children found stuffed into luggage and floating in a south Florida canal on Wednesday.
"We're devastated, and someone is missing these children," Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, a Delray Beach police spokeswoman, told reporters Wednesday evening. "Someone knows these children, and we need to know who these kids are."
The remains of two African-American children -- a girl between 6 and 10 years old and a boy believed to be 10 to 12 -- were found about six hours and a half-mile apart in the canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton. The girl's body was found first, after a passerby alerted police to a duffel bag floating about midway across the canal; the boy's body turned up in a suitcase closer in as investigators combed the banks for evidence, Guerriero said.
Police are working on the assumption that the deaths are related and are asking the public to get involved.
"If anyone has not seen their grandchild, their niece, their nephew, please give us a call," Guerriero said.
The bodies showed no obvious signs of trauma, Guerriero told HLN's "Nancy Grace." The bodies had been in the water long enough to have been affected by the immersion but were still intact, she said.
An autopsy is planned, and investigators will return to the canal for a more extensive search on Thursday, she said. Meanwhile, she said investigators are checking missing persons reports in an attempt to identify the children.
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The bodies were found a half-mile apart in the canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton

Divers to search canal where bodies found
Posted: Today at 7:25 am EST

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Divers are set to continue searching a South Florida canal, where the bodies of two children were found stuffed in luggage.

The Delray Beach Police Department's dive team plans to return there Thursday morning, one day after their gruesome discovery. The body of a little girl, believed to be between six and 10 years old, was found in a duffle bag floating in the canal Wednesday morning. Hours later, the body of a boy, believed to be between 10 and 12 years old, was found stuffed in a suitcase a half-mile away.

A homeowner was the first to alert police after noticing something suspicious floating in the canal.

Delray Beach Police said the canal is so large that the bodies could've been dumped from multiple locations. "This is really devastating, it's devastating for them, and for all of us as an agency," said Delray Beach Police Department Sergeant Nicole Guerriero. "It's horrific to think that something happened to these two children and this is the way that they were found. It's something that no one, as a police officer or as a detective, ever wants to see."

Police said the bodies didn't immediately match the descriptions of any known missing children. It is unclear how long the bodies have been floating in the canal.

The bodies have been transported to the medical examiner's office for autopsies.

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KIDS ARE NOT DISPOSEABLE!!!!

It makes me sick to read about all these kids being dumped like trash either by their parent(s) or strangers.

What is this world turning into???

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Suspects last name is Beauchamp.

Investigators believe they have identified the two children whose bodies were found stuffed into luggage and floating in a south Florida canal, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
Delray Beach Police Sgt. Nicole Guerriero told reporters the victims are believed to be a brother and sister, and their deaths appear to be "domestic-related." Detectives were trying to confirm the tentative identifications Thursday afternoon.
"We are following up leads to confirm that we have them ID'd, and that what we believe is true," she said. But she added, "I think they feel pretty good about what they've found."

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"I think they feel pretty good about what they've found."

They feel good about finding two children in luggage in a canal!?
I know what she meant, but that statement didn't seem real appropriate under the circumstances...

Police were questioning a man Thursday in the deaths of two children whose bodies were stuffed into luggage and dumped into a South Florida canal.
Delray Beach Sgt. Nicole Guerriero said police were talking to Clem Beauchamp but that he has not been arrested or charged. Investigators have tentatively identified the children as siblings but have not released their names or if Beauchamp is related to them.
Neighbors say Beauchamp lives with his children from a current and past relationship in the small peach home that was surrounded by traffic barricades and yellow police tape Thursday night.
Investigators said the girl, whose body was found Wednesday in a duffel bag, was between 6 and 10 years old. The boy, whose body was discovered hours later in a suitcase about a half-mile away, was between 10 and 12.
Divers used sonar and a remote-controlled submarine to scour the canal Thursday.
Authorities did not know how long the bodies had been in the water. Autopsy reports were not immediately released.
"We believe that this situation is domestic-related," said Guerriero, who declined to elaborate.
Court records say the 34-year-old Beauchamp was arrested several times over the last 15 years. The most serious was in 1995, for aggravated assault with a firearm, and resulted in an 18-month jail sentence.
It was not immediately known if Beauchamp has a lawyer.
Margaret Gissone, 22, who said she is the sister of Beauchamp's ex-girlfriend, said it's been terrible waiting for police to identify the children, and wondering whether they are her niece and nephew.
The wide canal where the bodies were found flows east to west through this oceanside town southeast of West Palm Beach. The water is bordered by modest homes, tiny wooden docks and small motor boats, and dotted on either side with the lush green of palms and other trees.
Debbie Duarte, who lives along the canal, said the neighborhood is usually quiet. Before now, she said, the most surprising thing to turn up in the waterway was a bag of marijuana.
"For parents not to say their children are missing, either the parents are dead or the parents did it," she said.
Throughout the day, small boats of divers and other police combed the canal for clues. Guerriero said they found nothing.
Under a tree near the banks of the canal, a tiny makeshift memorial took shape, with a teddy bear, a hippo spotted with pink hearts and two bunches of carnations.
Reporters and curious residents converged on the home, which was surrounded by unkempt, spindly bushes and had a car parked on the front lawn. Hurricane shutters covered a side window.
Kenneth Marshall, 43, who sometimes stays with his mother across the street, said he often saw a man at the house playing football with his boys in the street.
"He really paid a lot of attention to his kids," Marshall said.
Marshall said he last saw the children two or three weeks ago.
"We've been asking for the mom for a couple days, and all he's been saying is, 'She's in jail,'" he said.

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Clem Beauchamp walked to the end of his driveway on Tuesday night, passed his mailbox and headed for the church on the corner. As neighbors stood and stared, the troubled father fell to his knees and prayed. It was 11 p.m.

The scene was the first hint to the neighborhood that something wasn't right at the Beauchamp house, where just two weeks earlier four happy kids had tossed a football during a family barbecue.

In the days that followed, someone stuffed the bodies of two small children, a girl between 6 and 10 and a boy between 10 and 12, into plain black bags and dumped them in a canal on the city's south side. They were found bobbing in the water on Wednesday. A search for their killer on Thursday led detectives to Beauchamp's little tan house on Southwest Seventh Avenue.

By Thursday night, detectives had named the 34-year-old felon as a suspect in the slayings but declined to identify the victims, describe a cause of death or say whether they were children in Beauchamp's care. They hadn't arrested him.

Neighbors who ringed a police perimeter at Beauchamp's house on Thursday said they hadn't seen children around since the barbecue. It's been even longer -- weeks or months, depending on whom you asked - since they saw his former girlfriend, Felicia Brown. Police on Thursday still were searching for Brown.

It wasn't clear whether they had located Beauchamp's other girlfriend, and the mother of his children, Michelle Dent.

As investigators pursued leads in the case, his neighbors strained to know more about what was going on inside Beauchamp's home.

Court documents, state records, arrest affidavits and interviews paint a portrait of Beauchamp as perennially at war with his girlfriends - a violent, gun-toting drug-user who nevertheless fought hard for custody of his children and showered them with affection.

He shared the home with one girlfriend or another, but lately he always was surrounded by four kids. Staying with him were Jytra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10, children of his ex-girlfriend Brown, and his own kids, Keayana, 10, and Demetrius, 15. Police on Thursday wouldn't say whether all of the children were accounted for.

"He was very much into his kids. He loved his kids," said Beauchamp's friend and neighbor, Kenneth Marshall. Marshall said Beauchamp seemed like the kind of dad who could "work his kids like a drill sergeant" yet still clown around and play catch with them. He walked them to a bus stop near the corner of Southwest Seventh Avenue and Southwest First Street every school day.

During one hearing in a bitter, decade-long battle for custody of Keayana and Demetrius, Beauchamp described for a judge his thoughts on parenting.

"Being a mother means more than just having birthed the kids. Just like being a father means more than just making the kid. You actually got to be there for them. And I'm prepared to do all that," he said. "I'm there to make sure they do their homework. To give them proper guidance that they need to succeed in life."

"I've been nothing but a good father to my kids," he continued, describing the dirt bike and four-wheeler he had bought for them. "Every Christmas I'm there."

But despite his sense of responsibility, Beauchamp also was a man who stormed a fast-food chain with a pistol drawn, smoked pot and carried a robbery kit, according to arrest affidavits dating to 1995. Records show he was arrested five times in Florida on charges ranging from robbery to drug possession. He was convicted in 1996 of aggravated assault with a firearm.

On Thursday, as he was being questioned by Delray Beach police in the slayings, he was formally charged in U.S. District Court with possession of a silenced firearm, according to a complaint filed by an agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In laying out the federal allegations, the ATF agent described finding, in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack.

The women in Beauchamp's life often were at odds, records show. Once, in 2008, Dent lured Brown out of Brown's Boynton Beach house using Beauchamp's daughter as bait. Dent put a knife to Brown's throat and threatened to kill her, according to an affidavit for Dent's arrest.

In recent weeks, Beauchamp split up with Brown, his girlfriend of four or five years, and Dent, whom he had been fighting for custody, moved back into his house, neighbors said. They said Brown disappeared after the breakup, but her kids remained with Beauchamp.

Then the kids, too, went away. During the past few days, Beauchamp had acted strangely, said Marshall and other neighbors. He cut his dreadlocks, he seemed pained, and he visited the church at night to pray on his knees in the grass.

Fearing the worst, Brown's sister, Margaret Gissome on Thursday made the short trip up Atlantic Avenue to the city police station, seeking to confirm the dead children were her niece and nephew.

Clutching photos of the missing children, she offered help but was turned away.

Police told her they were using dental records to identify the children, hinting at the poor condition of the bodies.

Seething, fearful and anxious at the same time, she returned to the neighborhood where detectives still were swarming and resumed her grim wait.

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Police: Body found in landfill believed to be mom of slain children
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 4, 2011 8:24 p.m. EST

Clem Beauchamp, the suspect in the death of two children, was taken into federal custody on unrelated charges.

(CNN) -- About seven months before two children were found stuffed dead inside luggage and floating in a south Florida canal, the body of a woman police believe was their mother was discovered in a landfill, a Delray Beach police spokeswoman said Friday.

Felicia Brown was never reported missing, Sgt. Nicole Guerriero said, but authorities began looking for her after the bodies of two youths believed to be her children were found Wednesday. On Friday, the spokeswoman said that Delray Beach police think that authorities found her body in August in a West Palm Beach landfill.

That city's police spokesman, Chase Scott, said only that authorities there are trying to determine if that body is related to the two dead children, and Guerriero conceded that the medical examiner has yet to definitively identify that body. Still, she said that law enforcement in Delray Beach are confident about her identity.

"Due to several identifying marks, to include tattoos, we believe that the female found in West Palm Beach is indeed Felicia Brown," Guerriero said.

The medical examiner used dental records to conclude that the 10-year-old boy found Wednesday is Brown's son, Jermaine McNeil. A definitive determination was not immediately reached on the girl's identity, but Guerriero said police believe she is 6-year-old Ju'Tyra Allen based on her physical characteristics and "the circumstances surrounding how the children were found."

Brown's sister, Margaret Gissome, told reporters Friday that she hadn't spoken with Felicia since their mother's funeral in 2007 -- saying "she kind of ... disappeared." While the sister said she had believed a cousin may have spoken with her most recently, several people said they last saw Felicia Brown over the summer.

"I never knew my sister was missing. I never knew my niece or nephew were missing," Gissome said. "There's a lot of questions that are going on."

Earlier Friday, the investigation took an unexpected turn when Delray Beach police announced that federal law enforcement officers had detained their only suspect in the investigation into the children's deaths -- a man identified by authorities as Clem Beauchamp, Felicia Brown's ex-boyfriend.

He was arrested on a federal firearms charge dating back to 2009, according to CNN affiliate WPBF.

Investigators are continuing to search a house where the suspect had lived. Guerriero said it is not clear if the two children ever lived there, but investigators have found evidence that minors have resided there.

Police earlier said the children's deaths appear to be "domestic-related."

The two children did not show up at school Tuesday, Guerriero said. They were found Wednesday about six hours and a half-mile apart in the canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton, according to police.

The girl's body was found first, after a passerby alerted police to a duffel bag floating about midway across the canal; the boy's body turned up in a suitcase closer in as investigators combed the banks for evidence, according to police.

That same day, Beauchamp came into the Delray Beach police department voluntarily to talk with investigators, and he wound up in federal custody. He has not been charged yet in relation to the children's deaths.

CNN's attempts to contact Beauchamp for comment were not successful.

Three other children who lived in the same home as Brown and Beauchamp are now safe and in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families, according to Guerriero.

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Wow what a sad horrible thing! Why do people have to kill when they cant have the other person anymore? What could these kids have ever done to deserve to be killed and dropped in the water like that? Storys like this never cease to amaze me.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – The boy and girl whose bodies were found stuffed into luggage and thrown into a south Florida canal are believed to be the children of a woman found dead in a trash area last summer, police said Friday.

Investigators said they have positively identified the children's bodies found Wednesday as siblings Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'tyra Allen, 6. Police believe their mother, Felicia Brown, is the woman whose body was found in a West Palm Beach trash area last August.

Police said Brown was identified in part because she had tattoos bearing her children's names.

Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, a spokeswoman for the Delray Beach Police, said the three lived with Clem Beauchamp, who investigators say is their only suspect in the deaths. He has not been charged with their slayings but is being held on an unrelated weapons charge.

Police said they didn't expect any charges in the case for several days, at the earliest. Meantime, the release of the victims' identities Friday horrified friends and relatives, including Brown's sister, 22-year-old Margaret Gissone.

"There were a lot of things I wanted to tell her that I hadn't told her yet," she said.

Friends and neighbors said they had been asking Beauchamp about Brown's whereabouts for months, but he had an explanation.

"He said she was in jail," said Kenneth Marshall, 43, an acquaintance of the family.

Three other children who lived in Beauchamp's home were taken from his girlfriend and put into the custody of the Department of Children and Families, Guerriero said Friday. The girlfriend was questioned in the killings but is not considered a suspect, police said.

After Beauchamp was questioned in the children's deaths by Delray Beach police Thursday night, federal agents arrested him on the weapons charge, which will keep him behind bars as the investigation continues.

Court records show the weapons charge dates to 2009, when officers found a homemade silencer inside a bag with a knit hat and a Halloween mask. On Friday, investigators sifted through his small home and towed away cars.

The silencer was found in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car, documents show.

Beauchamp denied any involvement with the silencer, according to court documents. It's not yet known if he has an attorney.

His neighbors have described a complicated family situation in which multiple children who had different mothers lived with him. In 2008, Beauchamp fought an ex-girlfriend for — and won — the right to have two children live with him; they were among the three taken away this week.

"I'm there to make sure they do their homework, to give them the proper guidance that they would need to succeed in life," he told a judge at a custody hearing. "Being a father means more than just making the kid. You actually got to be there for them. And I'm prepared to do all that."

A person familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter told The Associated Press on Friday that Beauchamp used Brown's name to get food stamps and other government benefits after her death.

That person said Brown put one of her children up for adoption several years ago. When the adoption fell through, the source said, Brown readopted the child and began collecting adoption subsidies. It's unclear whether it was her son or daughter.

Beauchamp has a lengthy criminal record and has spent time in jail. Gissone said she had seen him hit her sister on two occasions.

"He got a mean streak to him," she said.

In recent days, those who know Beauchamp said they noticed some changes: He cut off his dreadlocks and could be found, late at night, sunk to his knees in prayer at a neighborhood church.

"He said he was trying to change his life," said Marshall.

The two children's bodies were found in the water Wednesday, about a half-mile and six hours apart. The girl's body was stuffed into a duffel bag, and the boy's was in a suitcase.

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The body of the woman had her children's names tattooed on it and they couldn't find out who she was? It would seem that they didn't try very hard...Looks like there could have been some computer match somewhere with the names, especially if she was getting assistance...

I think a lot of it had to do with family distance and not just geographically. This stood out for me:

Brown's sister, Margaret Gissome, told reporters Friday that she hadn't spoken with Felicia since their mother's funeral in 2007 -- saying "she kind of ... disappeared." While the sister said she had believed a cousin may have spoken with her most recently, several people said they last saw Felicia Brown over the summer.

"I never knew my sister was missing. I never knew my niece or nephew were missing," Gissome said. "There's a lot of questions that are going on."

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Boy, Girl Found In Canal Identified; Mother's Body Found In Landfill
Police: Children, Mother Not Reported Missing

POSTED: 6:10 pm EST March 4, 2011
UPDATED: 2:31 pm EST March 5, 2011


DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- A boy and girl found in a canal in Delray Beach on Wednesday have been identified and police believe they are the children of a woman found dead in a West Palm Beach landfill.

At a newsconference Friday evening, Delray Beach Police Sgt. Nicole Guerriero said the boy was identified by a medical examiner as 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil.

On Saturday, the medical examiner positively identified the 6-year-old girl as Ju'tyra Allen through dental records.

Guerriero also said the body of a woman discovered on Aug. 16 at the Solid Waste Authority processing plant in West Palm Beach was the children's mother, 25-year-old Felicia Brown. Guerriero said the Delray Beach Police Department made the connection and that neither the medical examiner nor West Palm Beach police could confirm the identity of the woman.

The children's bodies were found in bags in the C-15 canal on Wednesday.

"The medical examiner has been able to positively identify the male child as 10-year-old Jermaine McNeal. He was identified through dental records," said Guerriero.

Police said Clem Beauchamp, of Delray Beach, is a suspect in the case, but has not been charged in connection with it.

On Thursday, Beauchamp was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail. He was arrested on a federal firearms charge from 2009.

U.S. District Court documents, signed Thursday, state Beauchamp had a felony conviction for aggravated assault stemming from an arrest for robbery while masked when he was arrested for making a silencer for a gun.

Children, Mother Not Reported Missing

Guerriero said the children did not attend school on Tuesday and they were not reported missing.

This is a facial reconstruction sketch of the woman whose body was found at the Solid Waste Authority processing plant in August.

Brown was not reported missing either, Guerriero said.

"I never knew my sister was missing. I never knew my niece and nephew were missing," said Brown's sister, Margaret Gissome. "Last I heard, they were good."

Other Children Removed From Beauchamp's Home

Guerriero said that another woman and three children were living with Beauchamp as of this week. The woman was identified as Melissa Dent.

Guerriero said the the Florida Department of Children and Families removed the three children from the home and placed them in licensed care.

Dent is not a suspect in the case, Guerriero said.

Grandmother Asked Beachamp If She Could Take Children To Church

Barbara Flint, a woman who claimed to be Brown's grandmother, said she spoke with Beauchamp earlier this week. Flint told reporters that her two great-grandchildren were living with Beauchamp a block away from her own home.

"He was here sitting on my sofa. I'm asking him, 'Clem, where's the children? Clem, tell me (where are) my grandchildren?'" said Flint.

Flint said she asked Beauchamp if she could bring the children to church with her.

"I asked him (to) let me take them to church. They'd go to church with me, not knowing that was the last time I would see them alive," said Flint.

Beauchamp A 'Good Father,' Neighbor Says

Neighbor Kenneth Marshall said he has known Beauchamp for years.

"He was a good father, I mean a very good father. I mean he threw the ball at his kids and did everything he had to do," Marshall said.

Marshall said his neighbor didn't seem like himself the last time he saw him.

"The last days that we saw him, he was very distraught. He was going to the church and praying. He cut his hair," Marshall said.


There are four videos, a picture and a map on the above website.

The home in Delray: Felicia Brown and her children lived here on Southwest Seventh Avenue with Clem Beauchamp until she disappeared last summer. Her children stayed with him, and another girlfriend and her children moved in.


Felicia Brown in 2006. She is the mother of Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, and Jermaine McNeil, 10, both of whom are believed to be the children pulled from a Delray canal on Wednesday, March 2, 2011.


Left calf tattoos show several names on a woman found dead in August 2010 at the Solid Waste Authority plant at 6501 N. Jog Road.


Ju'Tyra Allen, believed to be the 6-year-old girl pulled from a Delray canal on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Her brother, Jermaine McNeil, 10, is believed to be the second child pulled from the canal Wednesday.

Felicia Brown's children were attacked before they even were born, tiny victims of punches and kicks while still in their mother's womb.

When they took their first breaths, they became part of a family long familiar with danger, strife and violence, according to court documents, police records and interviews.

Their young mother, Felicia Brown, drifted from one bad relationship to another. She and her children eventually settled in Delray Beach with a felon, Clem Beauchamp, despite his lingering attachment to a woman who was viciously at odds with his new girlfriend.

What happened next is shaping up to be a twisted murder mystery. Explaining why the 10-year-old boy, 6-year-old girl and their mother were killed has become the central occupation of homicide detectives - and of the scrappy, tightknit neighborhood that had thought it would watch the kids grow up.

Instead, police said, Jermaine and Ju'Tyra were bundled and, like their mother, discarded as so much garbage. For the family, it was the last in a long string of indignities.

Trouble begins early

Brown grew up poor. As teenagers, when she and her sisters wanted to do their laundry, they poured detergent into a bucket of water and wrung their clothes by hand.

By the time she was 14, she had learned to fear the police. She already was spending time with criminals, records show, and during her short life she would appear in police reports as both victim and perpetrator.

Her family fought constantly, sometimes violently, and her mother's suburban West Palm Beach home became a familiar destination for Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies.

Brown had her share of fights with her mother, brother and sisters, but she also played referee to the family. She was quick to call authorities when her siblings or mother seemed in danger.

By 2002, Brown was 17 and pregnant. One day she was arguing with her younger brother over a toothbrush when the 16-year-old punched her in the face so hard it split her lip. Months later, she delivered a girl named Jasmine, Brown's second child. Two years earlier, she had given birth to a boy. She named him Jermaine McNeil.

Brown eventually gave up Jasmine to the state for adoption. By 2004, she was involved with Curtis Allen, a man with a lengthy criminal record. She got pregnant again.

In July, she was asleep in her mother's house when Allen, angry over an argument, pried open her locked door, jumped on top of her, ripped at her hair and slapped her face, according to a report. She was calm when she met deputies in her driveway, wearing a torn green nightgown. She cradled her belly and complained of pain.

Deputies arrested Allen on a charge of battering a pregnant woman. Before prosecutors could pursue the case, Brown asked them to drop it, saying she wasn't really pregnant.

Ju'Tyra Allen was born four months later.

Fighting to keep children

As a young mother, Brown got in trouble often. She was arrested 16 times between 1997 and 2006, state records show, on charges ranging from shoplifting to cocaine possession to armed robbery. She never was convicted of a crime in Palm Beach County, but she lost custody of Ju'Tyra soon after the girl was born, said Allen's mother, Judy. She said the state Department of Children and Families also briefly took away Jermaine.

Still, Brown was proud of her children; she had their names tattooed on her left calf, beside a picture of a winding rose.

Judy Allen said she raised Ju'Tyra for about three years before social services workers returned the girl to Brown.

Eventually, records indicate, Brown settled down. By 2008, she had been seeing Beauchamp for about three years, a relationship marked by violent run-ins with Michelle Dent, Beauchamp's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his two small children.

Brown pushed Beauchamp to go to court for custody of his two children, who were living with Dent. Dent responded that March by attacking Brown with a knife, police said.

During a court hearing that August, Beauchamp described Dent as a greedy, drug-addled and negligent mother who slept days and spent nights drinking in clubs. When it was her turn to talk, Brown told the court that Dent left the children alone, hungry, and in dirty clothes and a filthy house.

Felicia Brown’s troubled life

Before she became involved with Clem Beauchamp, Felicia Brown’s life was marked by violence and conflict.

Oct. 22, 1999: When she was 14, Belle Glade police officers found Brown cruising the city streets as a passenger in a stolen car. She wasn’t charged.

Nov. 5, 2004: DCF investigators were called to Brown’s suburban West Palm Beach apartment because marijuana had been found within reach of Jermaine. Ju’Tyra was born a month later.

June 25, 2005: In a car west of West Palm Beach, Brown’s boyfriend smacked her in the face, tore her shirt and yelled that he would make her walk home naked, police said. Crying, she tumbled from the car facedown into the dirt. He dragged her across the ground. Deputies arrested the boyfriend on domestic battery charges.

July 2005: Brown had three kids and was short on cash. After staying with cousins in Lake Worth, she waited till they left the house, smashed a window, climbed in and stole a laptop, camcorder, PlayStation 2 and $1,500 cash, police said. A grand theft charge was dropped.

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Wow. Thank you, BJ, for the above article. It was like reading a book. I was completely engrossed in it.

What a sad, sad existence for Felicia Brown. This is what happens when a child is born without a loving, consistant roll model. This case makes me very SAD!

The murders of a mother and two children were not the first deaths that led Delray Beach Police to the Southwest Seventh Avenue home of Clem Beauchamp, suspected in the deaths of Ju'Tyra Allen and Jermaine McNeil.

Police also visited that address on Sept. 3, 2005, when Beauchamp's father was found dead in a bathtub full of water.

In fact, there were more than 30 police visits to Beauchamp's home since Jan. 1, 2007, according to records released by the Delray Beach Police Department on Wednesday.

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Clem Beauchamp, the boyfriend of the childrens' mother, has been considered a person of interest in the death investigation, but now DCF says Beauchamp's girlfriend is a person of interest too.
The DCF report names Michelle Dent as that person of interest, who is suspected in the deaths of not only Allen and McNeil but also their mother, Felicia Brown, whose body was found in a landfill last August.

The children were living with Dent and Beauchamp until the time of their disappearance. Delray Beach police Will not confirm whether they too consider Dent a person of interest, but stress they are not ruling anyone out.

Beauchamp is being held on unrelated federal gun charges. Police are looking into the possibility he killed Brown because she was supposed to be a witness in that case. As for Beauchamp's own kids with Dent, they remain in DCF custody.

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By the time he was 5 years old, Jermaine McNeil had already been the subject of 10 reports to the state’s child-abuse hotline.
They began when he was two months old. Jermaine’s grandmother was accused of kicking his 14-year-old mother and beating her with a belt. The baby was seen in a “diaper which was soaked through,’’ and appeared malnourished, according to state records.
His mom, a report said, fed him watered-down milk.
Said one caller to the hotline in 2000: “The house is horrific.’’
The reports continued for five years, unfolding in a steady stream of depressing details. Investigators were told Jermaine was living in a roach-infested home with broken windows, exposed pipes and wires and no sink or running water. The child was dirty and reeked of body odor.
The details are contained in pages of state records detailing the lives of Jermaine and his sister that were released Tuesday after requests from The Miami Herald and other media outlets.
Their journey with the state ended in 2008, when both were returned to their birth mother, Felicia Brown, who had to adopt Jermaine because her parental rights had been terminated.

Brown had completed intensive parenting classes, a domestic violence program and drug treatment, and was in therapy, a report by the state Department of Children & Families said. “She was managing successfully,’’ a report said.
The family reunion was short lived.
On March 1, the bodies of Jermaine, 10, and his younger sister, Ju’tyra, 6, were found stuffed in luggage and floating in the C-15 canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton. The body of their mother, who had disappeared months earlier, was identified days later as the “Jane Doe’’ who had been found in a landfill more than six months before.

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What cute children. What a shame for these kids the life they had to live and then murdered when it looked like they were doing fine with their mother.

I don't know if Michelle Dent helped kill Felicia Brown, but I don't doubt that she killed or helped kill the children...She probably couldn't stand them living there, reminding her of the "other woman"...So sad for those children...What a life..

This is so very sad! The little girl is adorable, and her brother seems like a typical 10 year old. Like Hippie Chick said above... children are NOT garbage! Neither are women. Whoever did this to them (most likely CB & possibly MD), needs to be held accountable & given the maximum sentence!!

The prime suspect in the deaths of two children found in a Delray Beach canal two weeks ago told a federal magistrate Friday morning he still has not been able to hire an attorney to defend himself against firearms charges.

Clem Beauchamp, 34, has been held since March 3 — the day after the bodies of the children were discovered — on an allegation he possessed an illegal handgun silencer in a case dating to 2009. The charge was brought after he spent several hours with Delray Beach police detectives.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Linnea Johnson last week ordered that Beauchamp be held without bail, after prosecutors said he was a suspect in the deaths of the two children who lived in his Delray Beach home — Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6 — and their mother, Felicia Brown, 25, who dated Beauchamp.

Brown may have been killed because she was a potential witness against Beauchamp in the gun case, federal prosecutors said. Brown and Beauchamp had a relationship beginning at least in 2007, according to her relatives.

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Posted by admin on Apr 17, 2013 in Delray Beach | Comments Off
The triple first-degree murder box opposite Clem Beauchamp is so formidable that it will take a few some-more months to navigate by a obstruction of reports and justification from a dual detached law coercion agencies who rubbed a cases, attorneys told a decider Tuesday.

During a standing conference before Circuit Judge Richard Oftedal, Assistant State Attorney Terri Skiles and Beauchamp’s invulnerability profession Michael Maher pronounced they doubted possibly one of them would be means to give a decider an refurbish on where a box is until a finish of summer. Beauchamp was arrested in Sep 2011 for a murders, 8 months apart, of his 25-year-old partner Felicia Brown and her dual children, 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil, and 6-year-old Ju’Tyra Allen.

Brown had been reported blank given Sep 2010. And nonetheless her decomposing physique was found in a landfill in Aug 2010, no one identified her until after a children’s bodies were found in Mar 2011 pressed in luggage in a Palm Beach County canal.

Beauchamp, of Delray Beach, faces a probable genocide judgment if convicted in a killings.

At Tuesday morning’s hearing, Skiles told Oftedal that it would take months to work by a interviews, reports and justification investigators from several agencies — including Delray Beach Police, West Palm Beach Police and a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

“It’s unusually voluminous,” Skiles told a judge.

Prosecutors have, however, already done open some-more than 1,000 pages of inquisitive reports in a case, including an talk with Beauchamp’s son where a child describes assisting his father dispose of complicated suitcases shortly before a children’s bodies were detected pressed into luggage.

According to a documents, Beauchamp told detectives acid for a blank children that Brown’s new boyfriend, a male named Mike, had taken control of a children.

Beauchamp was condemned to 10 years in sovereign jail in Oct 2011 for an separate gun charge

Oftedal, on Tuesday, set a subsequent standing conference in Beauchamp’s box for Sept. 17.
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Thanks for updating this horrible sad case!