A THREE-year-old boy was allegedly tortured to death and had every finger snapped after social workers sent him to live with family friends, his loved ones and cops say.
Little Amari Boone also had two broken arms, multiple broken ribs and severe head trauma, according to Metro.
Social workers say Amari was in state custody and was being looked after by two male family friends, the news outlet reported.
Amari's mother said she warned welfare workers that her young son was being mistreated and even gave them photos as evidence.
"They failed miserably," Ariana George told NBC in Dallas-Fort Worth.
"Because I gave them the information they needed and the pictures that I have."
She had lost custody of Amari about a year ago when she became homeless, she told the station.
Amari lived with an aunt for some time, but she could not look after him anymore.
A judge ordered him to live with the friends of his parents, she said.
"We both thought we knew them,” George told NBC.
It is alleged that Amari was beaten to death on Good Friday at a home in Fort Worth, Texas.
He was declared brain dead on Easter Sunday when the life support machine was turned off.
No arrests have been made, but cops are investigating Amari's death as a murder.
“I’m just really trying to seek out justice for my son,” father Rodney Boone told the Star-Telegram.
“I want my son’s voice to be heard because he can’t speak out anymore.
"He was a beautiful, bright child who did not deserve this. I want his voice to be heard.”
Boone told the newspaper that Amari had a swollen face and a black eye during a recent video-chat session – the last time he saw him.
He got a call from a hospital two days later saying that his son had suffered a seizure.
“It was a hard pill to swallow at the moment,” Boone told the Star-Telegram.
“Every time I saw my son, he had a different injury,” Boone told the paper.
“If (the caseworkers) had been visiting him like they said they were, they would have seen something.
"But they told us they never found anything wrong.”
Child Protective Investigations is also investigating Amari's death and trying to find out "who is responsible."
“Amari was in the State’s legal custody and he and his younger brother were living with friends of their family,” a statement said.
“Before the children were allowed to live in that home, background checks and visits to the home were conducted.
"The judge overseeing the children’s CPS case approved the placement.”
Amari's murder comes weeks after a Netflix documentary recalled the life of Gabriel Fernandez, who died in California in 2013 after years of abuse.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez described the failed opportunities to save him.
He was eight years old.
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