Jabraylon Quintez Bables

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remembering Jabraylon

Jabraylon Quintez Bables was just a toddler. He had only celebrated his first birthday a few months before the injuries that would ultimately take his life. At that age, Jabraylon should have been exploring everything around him, learning new words, playing and discovering the world with the complete trust that the adults surrounding him would keep him safe. Instead, much of what remains publicly documented about Jabraylon concerns the horrific injuries he suffered and the weeks doctors spent trying to save him. But Jabraylon was a little boy before he became the victim in a criminal case. He was a son. He was a nephew whose family would later speak publicly about what happened to him. He was a little boy whose life had barely begun. His name was Jabraylon Quintez Bables, and his short life mattered.

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Jabraylon's Story

In November 2010, Jabraylon was in the care of his mother's boyfriend, Carlnelus Delaney Simmons, at a home in Dallas, Texas. Something horrific happened inside that home. Jabraylon suffered third-degree scald burns across his legs, feet, hand and buttocks. Investigators determined that the pattern of those burns did not match the explanation Simmons initially gave police. Simmons claimed that the injuries were accidental. He told authorities that he had been handling hot or boiling water when Jabraylon ran into him, causing the water to spill onto the toddler. Police did not believe that account. Investigators concluded that Jabraylon's injuries were consistent with the little boy having been deliberately dipped into a pot of boiling water. Jabraylon survived the initial burning. But his suffering did not end that day. He spent the following 36 days fighting for his life. The burns caused catastrophic damage to his tiny body.

During his hospitalization, Jabraylon underwent extensive medical treatment. Your original Abuse Angels memorial records that surgeons ultimately had to remove approximately 60 percent of his intestines, his body became severely swollen, his kidneys failed, and he developed infections associated with the massive loss of skin. Despite doctors' efforts, Jabraylon could not recover. On December 11, 2010, more than a month after he was burned, Jabraylon Quintez Bables died.

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Justice for Jabraylon

Carlnelus Delaney Simmons was arrested after Jabraylon was burned. He was initially held on a first-degree felony charge of injury to a child. Police also filed drug charges after cocaine and PCP were reportedly discovered in the home.  Simmons already had a serious criminal history. He had previously been convicted of killing a man during a 1994 bar fight and had received a 15-year prison sentence. Your original memorial also records a later arrest involving the sale of PCP.  Yet years later, Simmons was free and had access to a toddler. That toddler was Jabraylon. After Jabraylon's death, the medical examiner ruled that his death was a homicide and the criminal case against Simmons continued. Simmons was ultimately sentenced to: 99 years in prison.

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Person convicted: Carlnelus Delaney Simmons

Relationship to Jabraylon: Mother's boyfriend

Sentence: 99 years in prison

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Forever Remembered

Jabraylon lived for only 17 months. For 36 days at the end of that short life, his tiny body fought injuries that no child should ever have suffered. His legs were burned. His feet were burned. His hand and buttocks were burned. His injuries were so extensive that his body eventually could no longer overcome the complications and infections that followed.  Those details should not be softened. They demonstrate the severity of what was done to Jabraylon and why his death was ultimately ruled a homicide. But those 36 days were not Jabraylon's entire life. Before there were hospitals, investigators and criminal charges, there was a little boy. His name was Jabraylon Quintez Bables. He had a family. He had celebrated his first birthday. He should have had a second. He should have had first days of school, childhood friends, favorite foods, favorite toys and years for the people who loved him to discover the person he was becoming. Instead, Jabraylon's life ended before he was even two years old. Abuse Angels remembers Jabraylon Quintez Bables, tells the truth about what happened to him, and preserves the name of the little boy whose life deserved to continue.