DETROIT, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The father of a blind 3- year-old Detroit boy whose body was found stuffed in a basement freezer after he was killed by his mother is suing 13 Children’s Protective Services workers in Michigan, alleging they acted with gross negligence by failing to remove the toddler from an abusive home.

In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, March 31st, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, Juwan Allen, Chayce Allen’s father and a personal representative of the boy’s estate, says the state workers visited the boy’s mother’s home several times before his 2022 death and ignored “horrific abuse and neglect.”

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Chayce’s body was found on June 24, 2022 inside a broken freezer in the basement of his mother’s Detroit home where she had stashed him for months.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services employees who are named defendants had multiple face-to-face interactions with Chayce before his death, according to the lawsuit. In his three years of life, the little boy suffered from bruised ribs, nonaccidental blunt force trauma causing permanent blindness, black eyes, third-degree burns, and constant vomiting from blows to the chest area, according to the filing.