Florida Mom Films Herself Tossing Handcuffed Son Into Pool to Drown
A 4-year-old boy is killed in Polk County, and we want to warn you, the details of this tragedy are quite disturbing. We cover a lot of tragic cases on this channel, but it seems that a lot of the stories that come out of Florida tend to be especially heinous. Today, we’ll be discussing a woman by the name of Patricia Boyer Saint-Aizair, who immigrated to the United States from Haiti.
Patricia seemed like an average 36-year-old. She was married to a man named Rene and the mother of two sons that she adopted from her home country. Her older son was 16 years old, and after a three-year-long process, she welcomed Brian Boyer into her home in April of 2023, who was four at the time of our story.
Patricia held a job at the ABC Liquors corporate office and aspired to start her own transportation service for students living in the Clermont, Davenport, Haines City, Winter Haven, and Poinciana area. She dubbed the business Victory Kids Services, which was supposed to be a safe and reliable door-to-door transportation service for children ages 3 to 18.
In addition, Patricia aspired to start a daycare that she also dubbed Victory Daycare. There doesn’t appear to be any evidence indicating that either of these businesses made it past the planning stages other than Patricia’s Facebook page, which only consists of two friends. The only other mention of the businesses online ties back to a singular Yelp listing, which gave an address on Majesty Drive in Davenport registered to her husband, Rene.
The family lived in a pleasant suburban neighborhood in Davenport in a light yellow house with a single-car garage and a swimming pool in the backyard. Palm trees dotted the neatly manicured properties. From the outside, one would think that the Saint-Aizairs were a typical, loving family. But sadly, that’s not what tends to happen on this show, especially in Polk County.
May 1st, 2024, should have been like any other normal day for the four-year-old. Brian, who attended Loughman Oaks Elementary School, presumably in their Pre-K program, arrived home from school in a good mood. According to witnesses that interacted with the boy, nothing seemed amiss; he even looked completely normal on the school bus surveillance footage.
According to his 16-year-old brother, who has not been named publicly by the media, Brian spent about 2 hours in a different room when their mother asked him to bring his brother a plate of food. However, something was wrong with Brian. He couldn’t sit up on his own or walk at all.
When the older boy informed Patricia of his state, she accused Brian of faking it and being overdramatic, and demanded that he feed him anyway. This is where things took a turn for the worse. During dinner, Brian was extremely lethargic, began to visibly shake, and threw up three different times. A stark contrast from the little boy with the can-do attitude who exited the school bus just hours earlier.
Soon, he fell unresponsive. The 16-year-old attempted CPR on his brother and demanded that Patricia bring him to the hospital. On the way to the car, Brian continued to shake before falling to the ground, flat on his back. After being admitted to AdventHealth Heart of Florida Hospital in Haines City, it was discovered that Brian was suffering from severe abdominal bleeding.
He was airlifted to Orlando Health for emergency surgery, but sadly, little Brian was beyond help. The following day, the hospital informed the Polk County Sheriff’s Office that Brian Boyer had passed away under suspicious circumstances. But what happened between his arrival from school and dinner? When questioned by police, Patricia claimed that Brian was weak and tired and was exhibiting flu-like symptoms for about a week.
This directly contradicted the testimony of those who spent time with Brian that day at school. She also claimed that she never used physical punishment with either of her sons. This would soon be revealed as an outright lie. Due to the nature of little Brian’s death, investigators quickly descended upon the Majesty Drive address, armed with a search warrant.
After seizing and reviewing the contents of Patricia’s cell phone, they were shocked. Two videos were discovered that solved the mystery of what happened to the little boy who, just one year earlier, escaped the civil unrest in his home country. In one video, Brian is lying on the floor unresponsive while Patricia can be seen repeatedly beating him with an unknown object.
In another video, she is seen throwing Brian into the family pool with his hands tied behind his back. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, it’s very likely that Patricia had no idea that these videos were even on her phone, as she didn’t actively take them herself. Instead, they were captured by her own home surveillance system, which then transmitted the video to the app on her phone.
At the autopsy, it was found that Brian suffered injuries involving scarring on his back, both old and new, as well as a deep laceration of the liver caused by targeted blunt-force trauma. This injury would have caused a rapid decline in Brian’s health, which would have been very noticeable almost immediately. This is why he was so sickly both before and during dinner.
In the press conference that we’ll share with you later, it was thought that his spleen was also injured, but this turned out to be false. Although he had no broken bones, Brian had bruising and hemorrhaging to both his arms and legs. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide by blunt-force trauma caused by ongoing child abuse. When Brian’s 16-year-old brother was questioned by authorities, he initially denied that his mother had been mistreating the little boy.
However, once he was taken into the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families, he felt a little more at ease and was able to share what had really been going on behind closed doors. According to the teenager, Patricia told him, and I quote, “When they ask you something, say nothing so I don’t get in trouble.” She then threatened to shoot and kill him if he disobeyed her orders. In addition, he shared that while in Haiti, he and his brother were both beaten with what he described as a homemade hitting device as well as a belt.
Patricia Saint-Aizair was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide in the death of her son, 4-year-old Brian Boyer. She also faces charges of aggravated child abuse, as well as tampering with a witness for threatening to kill her teenage son. She’s currently being held without bond with the exception of the aggravated child abuse charge. According to her inmate listing with the Central County Jail, her bond is set at $25,000 for that singular charge, which is quite strange because even if she met that bond, she still wouldn’t be let out for the other charges.
As this case is still developing, we’ll keep an eye out for updates as they become available, if they become available. Additionally, we should mention that Patricia is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. However, the evidence against her found on her cell phone is pretty damning at this stage. Patricia’s husband, Rene, was at work at the time of the fatal incident, and it’s unclear if he will face any charges.
It is unlikely, but he has currently secured a lawyer for him and his wife. When questioned, he shared with the authorities that it was his wife who was the disciplinarian, not him. Finally, a Polk County episode would not be complete without a comment from Sheriff Grady Judd. As we’ve observed in our comment section, Sheriff Judd is quite the controversial figure, with some viewers singing his praises and others calling out some of his more problematic actions and policies.
Now, when it comes to the subject matter that we cover on this show, I do commend Sheriff Judd on his tough stance for those who hurt children. Brian’s death is the third instance just this year where a parent or caregiver has been charged with killing a child in their custody age four or younger, and we haven’t even touched on those cases yet.
I do know that this is at least the fourth Polk County case that we have covered that has occurred within the last few years. Now, before I keep ranting, let’s just see what the Sheriff has to say. He starts off by sharing the history of how Brian came to the United States:
“Thank you very much for being with us today. I am going to tell you a sad story, a very sad story about a four-year-old little boy, and a sad ending to a very sad story. He was born in Haiti to a mother who didn’t want him. And so he was adopted in Haiti by this lady whose sister was in the United States. It took 3 years for the adoption process to go through, and ultimately the four-year-old ended up here in the United States. It’s called the Biden program, and supposedly it’s a sped-up adoption.”
“So the child’s born to a mother who doesn’t want it. We have no idea who that mother is. The sister of our suspect is in the process of getting the child for her sister, who is Patricia Saint-Aizair. Patricia is 36 years of age. She’s already got a 16-year-old son that she has adopted from Haiti. The four-year-old comes here as a three-year-old only a year ago. And what we’ve learned during this investigation just turns our stomach.”
Next, Sheriff Judd discussed some of the horrible details uncovered in this investigation, including the video where he’s tied up and thrown in the pool. We’re not going to include this clip because it’s pretty terrible and little Brian shouldn’t be remembered that way.
“We have a video clip of where that three-year-old baby’s hands were tied behind his back and she threw him in a swimming pool in the backyard. We received on May 1st a call—uh, I’m sorry, May 1st the child went to the hospital. So why did the child go to the hospital? Heart of Florida in Haines City, but they live in Davenport.”
“The little fella got off of the bus. He was happy. Everything seemed to be all right. The 16-year-old noticed he was happy. They were home. Patricia, the 16-year-old, and now the little dead fella who’s four. The 16-year-old notices later on that he’s lethargic, that he’s not responding. Patricia says, ‘He’s faking it. Give him something to eat.’ He can’t eat. He goes unconscious.”
“The 16-year-old has been saying, ‘He needs to go to the hospital. He needs to go to the hospital. He needs to go to the hospital.’ Heart of Florida thinks he has a significant issue, sends him to Orlando Health. Orlando Health tries to work with him and ultimately he dies. He goes to the medical examiner’s office, and that’s when we get involved a couple of days later.”
“We find injuries where this child has been beaten. In addition to the video we found in the investigation of his hands tied behind him and thrown into the pool, we found an injury where his spleen suffered a significant tear. The medical examiner said it could have been nothing else other than an immediate hard strike to the abdomen. And as the autopsy went on, they found different layers of bruises and injuries from past beatings. And he’s dead. He’s dead because she beat him to death.”
“We don’t know obviously how he got out of the pool after he was thrown in there with his hands tied behind his back. We have a video of that. We’re going to show it to you at the end of this news release.”
Next, Patricia’s charges are discussed:
“She’s charged with murder, aggravated child abuse. The investigation is still underway. Her husband was clearly at work at the time this event occurred. She was the disciplinarian. He was a student at Loughman Oaks. And despite his abusive treatment, they said he was a happy child. And this never should have happened. Ladies and gentlemen, it is beyond my wildest imagination how anyone could abuse a beautiful little fella like this child was abused and neglected, but the investigation is still ongoing.”
Next, the second video clip where Brian was beaten with an unknown object was discussed. We’re not going to share this one either for obvious reasons.
“We don’t believe we know all that this child suffered. We have another video clip where he’s face down on the floor and she’s beating him in the back and he’s not even resisting it. It’s just like it’s a normal occurrence.”
Sheriff Judd discusses Brian’s older brother and the part he played in this case:
“The 16-year-old is in protective custody at this time. He is obviously no longer at the home.”
Finally, Sheriff Judd fielded questions from some of the reporters at the press conference.
Reporter: “Have there been any other DCF calls or anything to the house?” Sheriff Judd: “That’s still under investigation. I don’t know if there were other DCF calls there or not, but our homicide team is simply the very best. These cases are difficult to work. Our victim’s deceased. We’ve got to work on timelines and time frames of injuries and types of injuries, and this was a very complicated case for them to work, and they’re still gathering details and evidence.”
Reporter: “How about with the school, Sheriff? Um, when your investigators spoke with school officials, had they seen any warning signs? Is that on their radar at all?” Sheriff Judd: “I don’t know if we’ve had a chance to circle around with the school officials yet to see if they’ve seen or heard anything because we have been intensely investigating the instant event. That will be part of the investigative protocol. But as you know, we release information as soon as it’s reasonable so that you know what we know. And some of that investigation happens in the later stages of the investigation.”
Reporter: “These videos, were they on the suspect’s phone?” Sheriff Judd: “They were on the suspect’s phone. And the 16-year-old, at this point in time, he looks fine. He was coached to lie to us when we first talked to him. After we got Patricia in jail and away from him, he then told us, ‘Hey, I was told to lie to you.’ So, that will be part of the subsequent investigation, but there’s no obvious instant injuries, but certainly, that will be part of the follow-up investigation.”
Reporter: “Do you think that Patricia could be facing more charges than the ones that are listed here?” Sheriff Judd: “Well, we’ve loaded her up with all of the charges that we know about right now, but certainly, depending on what the rest of the investigation tells us, you can be sure that my detectives will file every criminal charge possible depending on where the rest of the investigation leads us.”
Reporter: “So, was her husband never around?” Sheriff Judd: “Apparently not. You know, once again, those are the layers of the onion. We’re not completely through yet, but at least when this injury that caused the death occurred, based upon the severity of the injury and how bad that the child would have regressed from the injury, he was clearly not there. Now, follow-up investigation will help determine what he knew, when he knew it, if he knew it. But if you can believe this, they’ve lawyered up. So when you lawyer up because we’re investigating injuries to your child and you won’t cooperate with us, that’s a clue.”
Reporter: “Sheriff, did she express remorse or explain her behavior to you?” Sheriff Judd: “Oh, no. She didn’t.”
Reporter: “Um, Sheriff, is there any more you can tell us about her personal or professional life or something on social media that could indicate she may work in childcare?” Sheriff Judd: “No, she worked for ABC Liquors in the corporate office, I’m told, over in Orlando. She lived in Davenport.”
Reporter: “Do you know how long she lived in the states?” Sheriff Judd: “I don’t know. But it’s shocking. It’s absolutely shocking. But I can assure you of this: that if you hear something or see something or believe something or think something about a child being neglected or abused, if you call us, I can assure you that we’ll completely and thoroughly investigate it with DCF because our number one goal in this organization is to protect the children.”
“And that’s why we go after child predators. That’s why we go after pornographers. That’s why we go after child abusers. And we certainly go after child murderers.”
We would like to share the statement issued by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on their social media in the wake of Brian’s senseless death. It reads:
“Our hearts are broken at the suffering little Brian endured. Please keep his grieving family members, his schoolmates, and the staff at Loughman Elementary, and especially his older brother in your prayers.”
“You know, the positive, if you search for a positive, is that he’s in the arms of God right now. And he’s no longer being beaten. He’s no longer being punched. He’s no longer being tied up and thrown in the swimming pool. That now he’s, as our Christian belief, that he’s living the life there where he’s surrounded by love and things are great like he should have been surrounded by love and things should have been great here on earth for him.”
“So every day when you see these little guys and gals that are on their way to school, understand that there’s a small, small, small percentage of them that are being neglected and abused. And we need to know about that immediately. And when you go home tonight, hug your children a little tighter. Give them an extra kiss when you put them to bed. And thank God that you have those children and they are miracles and that you have the opportunity to show them the right way, to raise them the right way, to teach them the right way. And then understand that we need to say prayers for these children that we have yet discovered. It would have been great if we could have found this child and rescued him before he was beaten to death.”
