| Location | Reno, Nevada |
| Age | 2 years |
| Cause of Death | Murder |
| Date of Birth | 18/08/2005 |
| Date of Death | 18/12/2007 |
| Visitors | 4,382 since 09/07/2009 |
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This is the news report released after his murder.
A two-year-old boy is dead and authorities say the man who was like a father to the child was the killer.
"This wasn't an accident; it's clearly a child abuse case," says Reno Lt. Robert McDonald.
Police the suspect, 22-year-old Fabien Hunt, was the live-in boyfriend of the victim's mother. Police say he implicated himself in the death.
Police say they responded to the West 7th Street home just after 4:30pm Tuesday. Inside they found Kaviahn Van Buren unconscious.
Other residents in the boarding house called police after they said Hunt told them the baby was unconscious.
Van Buren was transported to Saint Mary's Hospital where he later died a few hours later. "Hospital personel telling us these weren't accidentally sustained injuries. You can see that by looking at the child."
The child's mother was not home when Channel 2 stopped by early Wednesday. Other residents, who didn't want to be on camera, say Hunt was "mentally challenged." Authorities say they wouldn't go that far. "He's a functional adult. He knows right and wrong. He was able to have coherent intelligent conversation with us."
According to people in the boarding house, the couple and the boy had been there for about three months. They said until his death, the boy seemed healthy and happy.
But police question that story. They say other neighbors have heard noises coming from the house in the past that indicated possible abuse.
Hunt is currently being held without bail at the Washoe County Jail in north Reno.
A full autopsy on the boy is expected within the next few weeks.
Coping even after a year and a half has been very difficult but I find that writing helps alot so here are two poems that I have written while I was having a "Kavi Day" as myself and my family calls it.
If the Circumstances Were Different
(A poem written for my beautiful son Kaviahn Maurice Vanburen. May God rest your soul!)
If the circumstances were different, life would be fair
You and I would have found peace,
with a daddy who cared.
My love for you would seem evident,
Instead of it not being there.
Where many believe it was non existent,
This kind of love was rare.
If the circumstances were different, you would still be here
I would still get to embrace you,
and tell you there’s nothing to fear.
Your life before mine,
that’s why I’m here!
so there’s no reason to cry,
wipe away that tear!
If the circumstances were different, our family would be whole
Living each day as if it were our last,
and living it full.
Never a day wasted,
and never a day dull.
You would live on in the world,
to present your perfect, loving soul.
If the circumstances were different, I would know you’re okay,
in heaven with God,
Somewhere far, far away.
But my faith is not strong,
It’s hard for me to say.
I hope someone is out there,
To hear when I pray.
If the circumstances were different, I would feel so alive.
I would not live each day,
hoping to die.
No one understands,
And no one knows why.
But just to see you once more,
Is worth my whole life.
But circumstances are not different, everything is the same.
I wake up each morning,
Hoping it will change.
Your loss is so powerful,
and fills me with shame.
I can only hope today,
that it wasn’t in vain.
Between Me and You
I try to not have self-pitty but please understand, I recall the first day that I held your little hand. The first look you gave me was filled so much with love, like a signed card from heaven for this gift from above.
It’s funny how easy it is to accept that God brought you here but not easy to believe that God kept you near. I don’t understand how he lets this happen, I’m asking you this as my eyes start to dampen.
I know as humans we don’t have control of much, but why did you leave me before I could give you a hug. Get over it, no, I can’t let it go. I don’t want to live life knowing what I know.
I have been through a lot and held my head high, but I can’t do it anymore, sorry I want to die. No one can ever replace you and this is a fact, so why try to move on if I can’t bring you back.
We always fought together and never seemed to lose, so why did you stop fighting? You were only 2. So many things I looked forward to that I will not see and things that I planned that will never be.
When I say things to you, I hope that you can hear cause if you’re talking back to me, it is not clear. Maybe you are trying and I can’t understand but if I jump to conclusions, things won’t go as planned.
It’s hard for me to walk away from an issue I didn’t cause but even harder for me to deal with the pain of your loss. When you were around, you gave so much joy. I was so proud of you, my little baby boy.
I really, really love you and that will never change. I just hope you know this and don’t feel ashamed. You were everything to me and ironically still are, so I guess I will just still love you, only now from afar.
What I would give to turn back time and make things right. I would have protected you with my own life. I wish it was me, and you got to live. I promise you my life for you, I would give.
I keep think about what happened and the pain you endured and the fear that you had without saying a word. I keep saying prayers and they aren’t enough. I can’t take it back, but I will never give up.
SO MANY ABUSED ANGELS
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HOW CAN ANYONE HURT A CHILD SO VERY SMALL
SOME WILL SURVIVE THEY WILL HAVE TERRIBLE MEMORIES THEY RE-CALL
ALTHOUGH THE ABUSE NEVER SEEMS TO END FOR SOME
UNTIL THE ANGELS HEAR YOUR CRIES THEY WILL COME
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THEY WILL TAKE EACH CHILD TO THE GARDEN OF LOVE
TO REST WITH THE LORD IN HEAVEN ABOVE
THERE THEY ARE FREE FROM ANYMORE PAIN
ALTHOUGH THIS WILL HAPPEN ONCE AGAIN
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FOR EACH CHILD THAT AS SUFFERED ABUSE IN EVERY WAY
I WILL ALWAYS THINK OF YOU EACH AND EVERYDAY
WITH A BROKEN HEART I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU ALL
I THANK THE LORD ABOVE FOR HE HEARD YOU ALL CALL
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HE TOOK AWAY ALL YOUR SORROW AND ALL YOUR PAIN
SO YOU COULD ALL BE FREE ONCE AGAIN
FROM THE EVIL ONES THAT DID THIS TO YOU
I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THEY ALL SUFFER TOO
copyright& copy Rosalind Roberts 2010
plz help stop child abuse today!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Birthday Remembrance
Thinking of you on your birthday
But that is nothing new
For no day dawns and no day ends
Without a thought of you.
We cannot send a birthday card,
Your hand we cannot touch,
But God will take our greetings
To the one we love so much.
................♫ Happy Birthday ♫
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♫ ♫ Happy Birthday To You ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ Happy Birthday To You ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ Happy Birthday Dear Angel ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ Happy Birthday To You ♫ ♫
Little Angels
When God calls little children
to dwell with Him above.
We mortals sometimes question
the wisdom of His love.
for no heartache compares with
the death of one small child,
who does so much to make our world
seem wonderful and mild.
Perhaps God tires of calling
the aged to His fold.
So He picks a rosebud
before it can grow old.
God knows how much we need them
and so He takes but few,
to make the land of Heaven
more beautiful to view.
Believing this is difficult
still somehow me must try.
The saddest word mankind know
will always be "Goodbye".
So when a child departs
we who are left behind,
must realize God loves children,
Angels are hard to find.
~Author Unknown
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✞
The Easter bunnies coming
Hopping all around
He is so quite
He does not make a sound
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He’s carrying lots of Easter treats
To heaven up above
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Easter eggs decorated bright
He hides them
Amongst the clouds and stars
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All the angels are having fun
Flying around excitedly
Filling up their baskets
With yummy eggs to eat
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These Easter eggs are given
With lots and lots of love
To our special angels
In heaven up above
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Copyright� Leza 3/4/2010
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☆ Goodnight precious angel ☆
☆ Sweet Dreams ☆
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☆ Our beautiful angel
In the sky ☆
☆ Let us know you
Are close by ☆
☆ As we lay down to sleep
Come to us in our dreams ☆
☆ Let us see you smiling face
Let us feel your warm embrace ☆
☆ Let us feel your tender love
Surrounding us from above ☆
Copyright© Leza 21/2/2010
~~ Sleep Softly Little Angel ~~
Your eyes now see the beauty
Of the paradise above
Your soul is now surrounded
By Gods unconditional love
So be happy little angel
With all your angel friends
It's beautiful in heaven
And on Gods love you can depend
Sleep softly little angel
You'll never more know pain
because in heaven little angel
You'll never be hurt again
Copyright� Ingrid Aspey 29/8/09
★ Sweet Dreams Precious Angel ★
*♥ Night time falls
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***♥ And all is still
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*****♥ We look up into the dark night sky
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**************♥ Searching out the one we love
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************♥ Ah, oh there you are
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************♥ You caught our eye
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**************♥ The biggest, brightest shining star
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*****♥ You twinkle there just for us
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***♥ Showering us with all your love
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*♥ And saying to us “Goodnight”
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Eternal Light
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Heaven
If we could visit heaven,ღ♥ღ
Even for a day,ღ♥ღ
Maybe for a moment,ღ♥ღ
The pain would go away,ღ♥ღ
I'd put my arms around you,ღ♥ღ
And whisper words so true,ღ♥ღ
That living life without you,ღ♥ღ
Is the hardest thing to do.ღ♥ღ
No matter how we spend our days,ღ♥ღ
No matter what we do,ღ♥ღ
No morning dawns or evening falls,ღ♥ღ
When we don't think of you xx.ღ♥ღ
If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
xxx xxx
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