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Toronto Police responded to a medical call to a residence in the Dawes Road and Chapman Avenue area on December 3rd, at 12:38 p.m.

On arrival police located 3-year-old Yverson Junior Quintanni Belotte who was pronounced deceased at the scene.

It has been reported that on Saturday, December 2, 2023, the victim was left in the care of the accused, Shardanae Cousins-Emily, 22, who is not related to the child. The Boy attended the Yonge Street and Bloor Avenue area with Cousins-Emily. The victim and Cousins-Emily entered an organization and proceeded into the washroom, where the child was assaulted. The victim and accused left the organization and returned to her residence in the Dawes Road and Chapman Avenue area.

Cousins-Emily contacted the police on December 3rd.

Shardanae Cousins-Emily, 22, of Toronto has been arrested and charged with: Second Degree Murder.
She appeared in court at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 7, 2023, at 10 a.m., in room 105.

Update October 24th 2026: Shardanae Cousins-Emily, 24, has been sentenced to life in prison for the second-degree murder of three-year-old Yverson Belotte Junior, known as Quintanni or Quinn. During sentencing, Justice Kelly Byrne became so emotional while describing the child’s death that she briefly left the courtroom.

Quinn was in Cousins-Emily’s care when she brutally beat him to death in a washroom at a Toronto Children’s Aid Society facility on December 2, 2023. She later took him home and called 911 the following day.

The judge ordered that Cousins-Emily must serve at least 18 years before becoming eligible for parole, citing the extreme cruelty of the killing and her failure to take responsibility.

Quinn’s father, Yverson Belotte, welcome