Records: State was told about child's abuse before his death

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 3:08 pm, Monday, March 5, 2018

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The state received at least eight reports that a 3-year-old Wichita boy was being abused and neglected in the 13 months before his body was found encased in concrete, according to records from the Kansas Department of Children and Families.

The records, obtained by The Wichita Eagle , detail reports that Evan Brewer's mother was often high on methamphetamine and didn't protect him from her abusive boyfriend, who allegedly bragged about choking her and her son. One report said the boy was having accidents because he was afraid to walk past the adults' bedroom to go to the bathroom.

Police who went to the home several times were denied entrance, and social workers and police failed to contact Evan's mother to check on him, The Eagle reported. A May 14 report with detailed allegations of abuse was not forwarded to a social worker investigating the case, according to the DCF.

Despite the reports, the state determined that no action was needed and Evan was never removed from his home. The landlord at their rental home found his body encased in concrete in a laundry room after the boy's mother, Miranda Miller, and her boyfriend, Stephen Bodine, moved out. Miller and Bodine are charged with murder.

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Evan Brewer

[democrank]

1. EIGHT abuse and neglect reports in thirteen months.

That poor little boy.

[Docreed2003]

2. Ugh...heartbreaking

It wasn’t enough to mistreat this beautiful child, so they left his body encased in concrete after moving out of the apartment? So sad and heartbreaking that no intervention was taken prior to his death.

[ToxMarz]

3. Being it is Kansas, no doubt all the departments and personnel handling these matters are

egregiously underfunded or unfunded. No excuse for any adult who could have helped to not have intervened, but I bet there is more to this than just indifference and ineptitude.

[mountain grammy]

4. Our protection agencies are failing. Some worse than others.

[Honeycombe8]

5. I can't read this.

I can't read articles about abuse or murdered children or animals. I just can't. But thanks for alerting us to the fact that this horrible thing happened. I wish I could get these two people alone, and hire a motorcycle hellraiser to work 'em over.

[riversedge]

7. I wish that Congress would pour BILLIONS into treatment and preventative services for the

drug problem we have in our country.. I can dream.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Drugs didn't do this. Lots of people do drugs to varying degrees....

very few of them murder or abuse children. If a person does such a thing, that's in them, anyway.

[riversedge]

6. "Even is the grandson of....former Mayor Carl Brewer, a Democratic candidate for gov..this year"

Last edited Mon Mar 5, 2018, 07:19 PM - Edit history (1)

I am editing this post to make a correction *****

Seem the biological father, Carlo Brewer- is **not the accused murdered and is the Dem Candidates Father.





...........The records, obtained by The Wichita Eagle , detail reports that Evan Brewer's mother was often high on methamphetamine and didn't protect him from her abusive boyfriend, who allegedly bragged about choking her and her son. One report said the boy was having accidents because he was afraid to walk past the adults' bedroom to go to the bathroom.



Despite the reports, the state determined that no action was needed and Evan was never removed from his home. The landlord at their rental home found his body encased in concrete in a laundry room after the boy's mother, Miranda Miller, and her boyfriend, Stephen Bodine, moved out. Miller and Bodine are charged with murder.
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One caller told the agency that Evan's biological father didn't know the child was his until Evan was 2. He then tried to get visitation rights and custody but Miller kept failing to appear in court, according to the agency records. Evan is the grandson of former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, a Democratic candidate for governor this year.

The agency released the heavily redacted records to the newspaper and Evan's family on Friday. DCF Secretary Gina Meier-Hummel and a state attorney met Friday with Evan's father, Carlo Brewer, said Shayla Johnston, an attorney and the spokeswoman for the Brewer family.


Johnston said state officials acknowledged that the agency mishandled the case and that the allegations of severe abuse were not forwarded to an investigator.

In a written statement Friday, Meier-Hummel said she shares "the family's outrage and heartbreak for the tragic loss of Evan. Changes to strengthen the system have already begun, and I vow these will continue."....................................

[riversedge]

8. "Protesters gathered outside the rental home of Miranda Miller and Stephen Bodine" Bodine was the

Live in boy friend--the accused murderer.. I was confused.


The smell told the landlord that 3-year-old Evan Brewer had died

By Tim Potter [e-mail]


September 11, 2017 08:59 PM

Updated September 11, 2017 09:23 PM

When landlord Dwayne Haukap noticed the smell coming from the concrete block at the rented house, it told him without a doubt that 3-year-old Evan Brewer had died.

The landlord knew he was smelling the child’s body, and “he was very distraught,” Haukap’s attorney recalled Monday.

Haukap connected the smell to something that Evan’s father, Carlo Brewer, had already told him – that Carlo Brewer suspected the boyfriend of the child’s mother of harming his son, said Haukap’s attorney, John Barrett.


Carlo Brewer had gone to court and obtained sole custody after arguing that Evan had been missing and that a woman signed an affidavit saying that Stephen Bodine – the live-in boyfriend – told her he had nearly beaten the boy to death.
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The distraught landlord called 911 first, then his attorney, Barrett said.

It was on that Saturday, Sept. 2 that Evan’s death became an indisputable fact waiting to be confirmed by DNA analysis.

The grisly discovery came after Carlo Brewer and his supporters had protested outside the south Wichita rental home on multiple nights in August, asking where the child was and demanding that he be turned over to his father.

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Family protests outside the home of Evan Brewer

Protesters gathered outside the rental home of Miranda Miller and Stephen Bodine in August, demanding that they give her son, 3-year-old Evan Brewer, to his father, Carlo Brewer. The 3-year-old was found dead inside the house last weekend. (Video [e-mail]

Evan is a grandson of Carl Brewer, the Wichita mayor from 2007 to 2015 and now a Democratic candidate for governor.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article172732166.html#storylink=cpy