Three-year-old Daylen Brown was found unresponsive at a home on the 3500 block of Illinois Avenue in St. Louis on December 8, 2015. Paramedics transported him to Cardinal Glennon Medical Center, where he died that night around 9 p.m. The St. Louis Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide, listing abdominal blunt trauma as the cause and court records later noting a lacerated liver.

More than a year after Daylen’s death, prosecutors filed a single charge. In late April 2017 Christina Bell—identified as Daylen’s foster mother at the time—was charged with child abuse resulting in death; Bell told detectives she had primary care, custody and control of Daylen when he was injured. Reports at the time focused on that charge and did not describe other suspects, arrests, or later courtroom outcomes. It was also reported that prosecutors did not promptly explain why charges took over a year to be filed.

If anyone had contact with Daylen in the days before December 8, 2015, or knows more about the circumstances at that house, please come forward with information.