PCSO: Mother beat 4-year-old child multiple times, leading to his death

Investigators said on May 2, an autopsy was performed, and it showed old scarring and new scarring from blunt force trauma injuries. The child also had a cut in his liver that would have caused his health to decline rapidly, the autopsy found. "The medical examiner said it couldn't 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," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Polk County Sheriff's Office began further investigating and obtained a search warrant for Patricia Sanitizaire's phone. Polk County investigators found a video from October 2023 showing Saintizaire hitting the victim multiple times. Investigators also found another video clip that shows her throwing the child into a pool with his arms tied behind his back.