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   Joseph David Heard used one hand to hold the 2-year-old’s hands over his   
   head. He used the other to repeatedly punch the little boy in the gut and   
   the head, according to the child’s mother.   
      
   When little Hayden Lee Bataille cried out in pain, Heard, 41, got angrier,   
   and the beating only escalated, Hayden’s mother and Heard’s wife, Hailey   
   Lynn Bataille Heard, said in testimony this week in Harrison County   
   Circuit Court in Biloxi.   
      
   Joseph David Heard was already angry that morning, two days after   
   Christmas 2021 because the toddler with curly blond hair had soiled his   
   diapers overnight.   
      
   When Heard felt like the child took too long to get a juice box out of the   
   refrigerator after his bath, the torture began.   
      
   Hayden’s cries ended only after his mother said she later walked into the   
   living room of their one-bedroom apartment, where the boy’s stepfather was   
   still beating the child. She testified that she put her hand over her   
   child’s mouth and nose, hoping he would stop crying and the beating would   
   end.   
      
   Hayden turned blue and slipped from consciousness. He died of suffocation.   
      
   The testimony from the child’s mother, Biloxi police, doctors, and more   
   came out this week in the capital murder trial of Joseph David Heard in   
   his stepson’s death. If convicted of capital murder, he could face a   
   maximum sentence of life in prison without parole or death.   
      
   Hailey Heard has already pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of first-   
   degree murder in a plea deal with prosecutors that included a demand that   
   she testify against her husband at his trial. Hailey is serving a life   
   sentence.   
      
   On Thursday, Heard testified in his defense and repeatedly denied ever   
   abusing the child. He also said he didn’t see the bruises on Hayden that   
   covered his body the day of his death.   
      
   But in body camera footage from Biloxi police at the couple’s home that   
   morning, Heard acknowledges the bruising and talks about how Hayden liked   
   to “play rough.”   
      
   He even asks Hailey if she plans to go to work while first responders are   
   still there.   
      
   Heard did admit seeing bruising on Hayden in the past but said he’d ask   
   the child’s mother what happened. In response, he said, Hailey Heard told   
   him Hayden had fallen off a couch or a bed.   
      
   Attorney claims mom killed child   
   An autopsy showed the toddler had bruises — both old and new — all over   
   his face, his head, his abdomen, his back and his legs, plus old and new   
   broken bones, and more.   
      
   Joseph David Heard’s attorney, Donald Rafferty, maintains that Hailey   
   Heard caused the toddler’s death when she put her hand over his mouth,   
   suffocating him.   
      
   Assistant District Attorneys George Huffman and Mara Joffe are prosecuting   
   the death penalty case this week before Judge Larry Bourgeois.   
      
   In opening arguments, Joffe told the jury that Hailey Heard had been the   
   victim of repeated domestic violence by Heard and how her son’s torture   
   and abuse at the hands of his stepfather was a repeat occurrence during   
   the couple’s one-year relationship.   
      
   “This is a case about control,” Joffe said. “It’s about this defendant,   
   Joseph David Heard, controlling his wife Hailey Heard and his 2-year-old   
   stepson Hayden through violence, through abuse, and through torture.”   
      
   The torture and abuse that Hailey Heard and her son suffered, Joffe said,   
   “was not isolated but was prolonged.”   
      
   “They had to do things his way or face punishment,” she said.   
      
   A 911 call, child abuse and toddler covered in bruises   
   When a 911 call came in that morning about an unresponsive child,   
   authorities said the cause was first reported as a possible drowning.   
      
   But when Biloxi police, firefighters, and paramedics with American Medical   
   Response responded to the call on St. Mary Boulevard, they found the child   
   fully clothed and lying on the living floor. The child was not wet, Biloxi   
   police said.   
      
   When AMR paramedic Mark Dillard arrived, he said that Hayden wasn’t moving   
   , then twice gasped for air and stopped breathing.   
      
   Dillard said that he noticed extensive bruising on the toddler but kept   
   doing what he could to revive the child.   
      
   A firefighter carried Hayden to the waiting ambulance, and AMR rushed the   
   child down the street to Merit Health hospital in Biloxi.   
      
   ‘Most horrific scene’   
   The emergency room physician, Dr. Leanne Lee, said she attempted   
   additional life-saving measures on Hayden before pronouncing him dead   
   around 7 a.m. on Dec. 27, 2021.   
      
   “It was one of the most horrific scenes I’ve witnessed as an ER doctor,”   
   Lee said. “I had never seen a kid that had sustained so much trauma.”   
      
   Lee described the extensive bruising on Hayden’s body, along with broken   
   bones in different stages of healing, a burn mark and more.   
      
   The state medical examiner, Dr. Staci Turner, said an autopsy showed the   
   child died due to suffocation but had also sustained other significant   
   injuries, including swelling in his head.   
      
   At the trial, Biloxi police read aloud pages of text messages between   
   Heard and his wife. In them, he often sounded off about how Hayden had   
   done something wrong and how he planned to exact his punishment on the   
   child.   
      
   On some occasions, Hailey Heard said, Joseph David Heard punished the   
   child by making him stand up and move his arms up and down repeatedly for   
   hours at a time.   
      
   At other times, she said, Joseph David Heard made Hayden sit on his potty   
   chair for hours because the child had soiled his diaper.   
      
   When Hayden got in trouble at other times, Joseph David Heard told his   
   wife he was going to hit her son’s hand, which had a second-degree burn,   
   with a rubber spatula.   
      
   The exchanges included repeated threats from Joseph David Heard to divorce   
   his wife. She begged him to stay, although she was the one who worked and   
   paid the bills.   
      
   Check back with SunHerald.com for updates.   
      
   https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article288378770.html   
      
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