But more than 500 pages of DCF records, and the nine-page death review itself, provide quite a bit of evidence:

•  The younger boy — who was the only child capable of speech — referred to his father as a “Monster” who hid under his bed and in his closet. The boy disclosed that his father had “hurt” him and touched “his pee pee.”

•  During a supervised visit between DeJesus and his sons on May 26, 2009, a court-appointed guardian and a therapist both reported seeing the father repeatedly touch the boys between their legs while engaging in “rough” play. The therapist and guardian-ad-litem, who advocates for the children’s best interests, reported what they believed to be an act of sexual molestation to the state’s abuse hotline. The event occurred shortly after DeJesus was granted his first supervised visits with the boys while they were in foster care.

“Dad was grabbing both the children by their crotches during their last visitation,” the report said. “Dad also kept trying to kiss the children violently.”

“According to the foster parent,” the review added, “the children’s behavior also deteriorated immediately after the visits. [The younger boy] also gestured a knife being placed on his throat and having his throat cut by the mother and father.”

Despite the eyewitness account, DCF closed the investigation by saying there were “no indicators” DeJesus had abused his sons.

•  Jeshiah’s psychiatrist reported the boy once disrobed in his waiting room and touched himself inappropriately. And the younger boy had begun touching his genitals, as well, after visits with his father began.

•  Though one licensed mental health counselor wrote a report in 2008 concluding both DeJesus and Beauchamp were “at low risk of sexually offending the children,” a therapist who had been treating the children testified that the boys’ unusual behavior resulted not from their disabilities, but “was due to severe abuse and neglect.” The therapist also warned that “exposing” the brothers to their parents would be “traumatic to them.”

In October 2010, two months before DCF ceased all contact with the then-reunified family, DCF received one last report on DeJesus. It involved activities that occurred in Hillsborough County, and the entire section on the case in the nine-page review was redacted. The allegations may have involved DeJesus’ children from a prior marriage when he was living in New York. DeJesus no longer had rights to those children.

In the detailed review, DCF said both parents had completed a laundry list of tasks that were intended to improve their parenting skills. Beauchamp finished a victim’s intervention program, accepted mental health counseling, and “was compliant with recommendations,” the report said. DeJesus completed an anger-management program, a batterer’s-intervention program, and a substance-abuse evaluation. Both parents also attended parenting classes and accepted random drug screenings.

In addition, a case manager from a private child-welfare agency visited the home regularly to “make certain the children were safe and being cared for by the parents,” the report said. “The case manager met with the family on numerous occasions and no safety concerns were noted…The case manager reported that the parents demonstrated the appropriate parenting techniques during home visits and expressed that they were benefitting from services.”