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   Detroit — Mitchelle Blair subjected her children to years of intense   
   abuse before killing two of them and forcing her daughter to entomb   
   her younger sister in a deep freezer atop her dead brother,   
   according to police and court documents.   
      
   A Detroit police investigator's report and a petition filed Thursday   
   in Wayne County Juvenile Court provide a horrifying glimpse into the   
   ordeal Blair's four children endured inside apartment No. 804, a   
   low-rent townhouse in the Martin Luther King apartment complex on   
   the city's near east side.   
      
   The documents detail Blair's alleged beatings of her children with   
   hot irons, wood planks and extension cords. She also reportedly   
   starved her daughter before strangling her to death, nine months   
   after allegedly scalding and killing her son.   
      
   The picture painted through interviews with Blair and the surviving   
   children belies the image she projected on her Facebook page, where   
   she wrote "Loyal to my babies," and posted a picture with the   
   message "there is no greater blessing than being called Mom."   
      
   For the past year, the two surviving children, ages 8 and 17, lived   
   in the small apartment near their slain siblings, 9-year-old Stephen   
   Berry and 13-year-old Stoni Blair, whose frozen bodies were found   
   Tuesday in a chest freezer near the apartment's front door, the   
   children told police and social workers.   
      
   The records also show state Child Protective Services workers twice   
   investigated Blair for abusing her children, and that the abuse was   
   substantiated, although she was allowed to retain custody. When   
   doctors examined the two surviving children this week, they found   
   them covered with welts and scars from repeated beatings, according   
   to court records.   
      
   After Blair allegedly killed her children, she continued to receive   
   welfare benefits, according to the petition, obtained through the   
   state Attorney General's Office, which was based on what the two   
   surviving children told counselors. The petition seeks to terminate   
   the fathers' parental rights and give the state custody of the   
   children.   
      
   Blair, 35, was arrested Tuesday near her apartment on Detroit's east   
   side after bailiffs who arrived to evict her discovered the bodies   
   inside the freezer.   
      
   Blair was arraigned Thursday in 36th District Court on four counts   
   of first-degree child abuse, a 15-year felony; and one count of   
   committing child abuse first-degree in the presence of another   
   child, a felony punishable by up to life in prison. Bond was set at   
   $1 million. She's being held in the Wayne County jail.   
      
   During police questioning, Blair told investigators she became   
   enraged in August 2012 after finding out Stephen was allegedly   
   sexually assaulting a relative, so she "placed him in a boiling hot   
   tub of water until his feet blistered." The report doesn't say how   
   he died, but that it happened on or about Aug. 30.   
      
   Blair told police she then "wrapped him in his favorite blanket and   
   placed (him) in the freezer," the report said.   
      
   Nine months later in May 2013, Blair told police she found out Stoni   
   was allegedly sexually assaulting the same relative so "over the   
   course of the next week, (Blair) assaulted (Stoni), starved her,   
   serving her only a bowl of oatmeal a day and water," the report   
   said.   
      
   "Finally, they got into a physical confrontation when (Blair)   
   strangled (Stoni) with a black shirt and suffocated her with a black   
   garbage bag," according to the report.   
      
   The children did not mention sexual abuse to counselors, according   
   to the juvenile court petition. It says Stephen died Aug. 30, 2012,   
   and Stoni died May 25, 2013.   
      
   "Mitchelle Blair tortured Stephen for approximately two weeks prior   
   to his death by tying a belt around his neck, throwing hot water on   
   him while in the shower, and putting a plastic bag over his head,"   
   the court petition said, adding that when Blair found Stephen   
   unresponsive, "she wrapped his body in the bed linen and placed him   
   in the deep freezer."   
      
   The petition deviated a bit from the story Blair told Detroit police   
   investigators about why she killed Stoni. According to the petition,   
   "Stoni informed her mother that she did not like (her two surviving   
   siblings). Mitchelle Blair became enraged and strangled Stoni with a   
   black T-shirt and suffocated her with a plastic bag.   
      
   "Mitchelle Blair then made (the oldest daughter) put Stoni in the   
   deep freezer following her death."   
      
   The surviving brother told counselors he knew his siblings' bodies   
   were in the freezer, the petition said.   
      
      
   Scars from mistreatment   
      
   The girl told counselors her mother burned her back with a curling   
   iron. She had a visible cut above her left eye which she said was   
   the result of her mother hitting her with a plank of wood, and that   
   her front tooth was chipped when her mother hit her in the mouth   
   with a curling iron.   
      
   "Her mother refused to provide her with medical treatment," the   
   petition said.   
      
      
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