There are children that have a chance at life, and then there are children like 22-month-old Asi Sekona.
Asi Sekona’s first strike? His mother abandoned him.
Second strike? His father went to jail.
The third strike? Asi Sekona had to live with Joshua Jameson Sagayo.
23-year-old Joshua Sagayo and his wife Seteli Sagayo took Asi into their home, due to the fact that Seteli is a cousin of Asi’s mother and that nobody else would.
Joshua’s wife wasn’t so bad, really, which is pretty much the only reason Asi isn’t dead right now.
Joshua, on the other hand, is not only a felony drug charge parolee, but is - now - also a child abuser.
On the sixth of November, 2007, while Seteli was at work, Joshua Sagayo was at home taking care of Asi as well as his own one-year-old son.
While changing a diaper, Asi, like many toddlers, squirmed out of his grasp and ran through the house. Joshua Sagayo, unlike anybody with any sense, grabbed the boy and slammed him down to the ground.
After establishing his dominance, Joshua was able to re-clothe Asi. Unfortunately, Asi, who was in quite a bit of pain, wouldn’t stop crying.
In what could only be called a Mary Poppins moment, Joshua Sagayo picked Asi up again and slammed the boy back down on the couch while screaming “Shut up!” at the toddler.
Well, that didn’t help. Asi continued to cry.
So what else could Joshua Sagayo do?
A) Put the boy in his room.
B) Distract him with a toy.
C) Grab the front of the boy’s jacket and push down as hard as he could
As you can imagine, Joshua chose C), and as a result of a guy described as “good-sized” pressing down on him, Asi started “acting strangely” and “seized up.”
So a child is going into a seizure. What do you do?
A) Put him in a place where he can’t hurt himself by thrashing around and go call 911.
B) Carry him to your car and drive him to the hospital.
C) Try to pry the kid’s mouth open with a pen, and, when that fails, shove a can opener into his mouth.
Yup, he chose C) again.
Joshua Sagayo waited until his wife called to let her know that there was something wrong with Asi, that the toddler looked like someone had knocked him out.
When Joshua drove everyone over to Seteli’s work to pick her up, it was fairly obvious that there was something wrong with Asi. When Seteli asked her husband what had happened, Joshua told her that he had slapped the boy on the back of the head to stop him from crying and Asi had fallen over, hitting his head on the floor. Joshua also told her that he had picked Asi up and shaken him to try to wake the child.
Being a woman of sense (other than that whole marrying Joshua Sagayo thing), Seteli immediately directed Joshua to drive them to the hospital.
Doctors examined Asi and immediately saw the noticeable bruises and welts which were just about covering the toddler’s upper body and face. Less noticeable were the severe, life-threatening brain injuries that left Asi in critical condition.
The police were called and notified that they had a child abuser to come pick up. When Joshua saw the cops coming down the hall, he held out his hands and told the officers, “Do what you have to do.”
Well, they didn’t do anything but get a warrant to listen in on Joshua’s phone calls, which they did the next day, when he talked to his mother.
In one of the recorded calls, Joshua explained to his mother how he needed to smack the kid all day long because the boy was crying and wouldn’t shut up. He told her how he slammed Asi into a few pieces of furniture and onto the floor. He told her everything that he did to the kid, which will make fantastic evidence during his trial.
Joshua Sagayo has been charged with two felony counts of assault.
He will possibly spend the next 30 years in prison.
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woo hoo you sleeze ball. I don’t understand how someone has that in themself to do that to a child. How do you bring yourself to beat an infant?
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um a can opener? jesus.
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unbelievable, a 22 month old child, what did he expect from the kid? i can’t stand the crying of an infant either, but my aproach would be to try and take away whatever grief is causing the tears, beating the living crap out of the kid is not on that list.
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Poor kid. At least he’s alive, but with luck he’ll get out of this without mental problems, sounds like he got shook up pretty bad.
And that guy, yeah, thirty years is not bad. For a start.
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It really amazes me at how much you don’t know about what happened to Asi.
you are not the one to chose who goes to hell and does not!
If you really care at Asi is doing so much better. He recognizes his family members and is now out of picu. he is taking baths and starting to eat small amounts of food.
what josh did was very bad, make no mistakes about that. The facts he did not tell his mother that he beat Asi all day. It all happened in the matter of minutes. His mother talked to both kids about an hour before it all happened.
Did you know that all of Josh’s family collectively took care of Asi? They bought him
everything he now owns and fell in love with him when no one else wanted him. Josh’s mom offered to fly him to hawaii to be with his grandmother and they never responded. They tried to find people in Cali and of course no one had the time of day.
It’s a good thing that God is the author of our lives. He knows Josh better than you and could ever know and he will deal with him. At least josh turned himself and did’nt run unlike the 22 yr old who molested and killed his 6 month old daughter.
did you know that at alaska providence in the past few months have seen 39 cases of child abuse resulting in half of them dying? It’s sickening to think that this is happening in that state, but one has to wonder why is it that only Josh’s name is plastered all over the news? maybe because he is a minority?
ps the drug charges were from josh carrying a rx of pain killers. He does’nt use drugs or drink or smoke. you really dont know him.
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MJ2020 reply on May 23rd, 2008:
bottom line - this asshole beat the shit out of a perfectly innocent baby and nearly killed him. SCREW him SCREW YOU for defending him and SCREW you for trying to throw in the race card - F-ing idoit.
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RELATIVES ... reply on May 25th, 2008:
RESPONCE TO MUTHA FUCKIN “KK” THE SAGAYO … BITCH FIRST OF ALL YOU OR YOUR SAGAYO FAMILY DIDNT CALL US, EMAIL US, TXT US, POST A MUTHA FUCKIN BULLETIN ON MYSPACE TO LET ANYONE KNOW THAT JOSH WAS A BITCH ASS LOSER ABUSER - - - I CAN SAY THO THAT THE ONLY OTHER DAMN PERSON IN “CALIFORNIA” WAS STEL’S SISTER PUA MALAKI, WHO ONLY TOLD PEOPLE THAT ASI WAS WITH STELI LIKE 2WKS B4 THE SHIT EVEN HAPPEN…
SOOOOOOOOO BEFORE ANYONE SAYS THAT ANYONE IN CALI DIDNT WANT HIM TAKE THAT SHIT AND SHOVE IT FAR UP YOUR ASS -
&& TO KNOW PERSONALLY THAT JOSH DOES DRINK - HE DOES. HE MAY HAVE QUIT BUT HE DRINKS. AND THE DRUG CHARGES? WANNA AIR OUT SOME LAUNDRY??? “HE WAS DEALING THEM! NOONE SAID HE WAS USING THEM, HE WAS A DOPE MAN - AINT NO SHAME IN HIS GAME BUT HE AINT THE ALL MIGHTY SAINT YOU WANNA SAY HE IS “KK” … SO IM CALLING YOUR BULLSHIT
EVERYONES.EX.WIFE … DOESNT THAT MEAN YOUR A SLUT? HOW MANY EXHUSBANDS DOES SHE HAVE? AND WOW SHE WANNA SAY THAT WE TURNED A BLIND EYE - NOONE KNEW THE DAMN SITUATION THAT TULOTO [ASI'S BIRTH MOTHER] PUT HERSELF AND HER SON IN; DAMN CRACK HEAD.
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KK, I’m not sure what the point of your post is. I feel even worse for Asi that a perfectly innocent child was so unwanted by everyone who had any real claim to him and ended up in the home of an abuser. I am so glad he is doing better but does that make me feel any less anger toward a man who would beat him to the point of having seizures? NO. I am glad his abuser’s family cares about him and has shown the boy some kindness but unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to prevent this from happening to someone completely innoncent and helpless. It’s too bad that the “collective care” the baby received from this family wasn’t good enough to prevent him from suffering a brain injury. It’s nice that he can recognize people and is starting to eat, and I will pray to God tonight that he suffers no permanent damage from this abuse but the brain is a tricky thing and this child is at risk for life long impairment thanks to one guy who would rather beat a baby until he’s quiet rather than SIMPLY PUTTING HIM IN HIS ROOM FOR A FEW MINUTES AND CALMING DOWN! No one ever killed a kid by putting him in a safe place while taking a few minutes of personal time to unwind. However, plenty of kids have been injured and killed by parents and caretakers who somehow think the best way to deal with crying is to slam a kid’s head against a wall.
And though you might make the argument that the abuse happened in a matter of minutes and was thoughtless and not well-planned evil, the fact that when the child started seizing the first response wasn’t to call 911 and get him the help he needed really shows what the abuser’s mindset was. Josh deserves the maximum allowable punishment but unfortunately, our system doesn’t value children even as much as it values property in many cases.
Child abuse sickens me more than anything else in the universe.
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Get your damn stories straight before you accuse our family of not wanting to be there for little Asi!! It will be a long a** time before I can even think of forgiving him…If I dont Oh well…I am human!!My brother Asi, my parents, our entire family…were sickend by that fool…I put him in the same place as that sick 22 year old fool!! “When no one else wanted him”…who the hell are you…actually i dont even care!! Get your damn facts straight before you call shots!! I love lil Asi…his same blood runs through my veins…thank you Jester, Anon, Dualdenz, Lizzy and Brittany…but we all didnt know…lil Asi also has his parternal family here in Arizona, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Utah.
“A minority”…please he (if even that) is a CHILD ABUSER!! -VaiFSekona
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After reading about crazy, mean men named Joshua all morning, I think we need to ban naming little boys Joshua for a while. Maybe the name itself is tainted or cursed. Couldn’t hurt…….
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Okay…
I just read a bunch of the comments from members of Asi’s family. I’m confused? If so many people in Asi’s family WANTED the little boy, how did he wind up in the home of an abusive drunkard??? You CANNOT tell me that NO ONE in that entire family knew what a bastard drunk idiot Joshua is!!! The little boy should not have been there in the first place! I have FOUGHT for the kids in my neighborhood to get them out of abusive situations - and I DO NOT live with them! I merely see & hear the abusive behavior from across the street and call the cops. I’ve also gone over and physically stopped jerks who were about to beat their kids. SOMEONE KNEW! That little boy did not deserve to be there! If so many people in his family really wanted him, they should have gone and GOTTEN HIM! I’m calling BULLSHIT on you!
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Amen to everyonesxwife!!!! It’s funny how everyone in lil Asi family could turn a blind eye to what was going on because it was inconvenient for them to love him and protect him when he needed it but after he was beaten they all want to look like the big ol saint. In my eye’s they are NO better then Joshua. They all helped to facilitate what happened to that little boy and they should be held just as responsible - ESPECIALLY THE MOTHER! Everyone.
The only justice here really would be that lil Asi can grow up one day and meet Joshua. At that point Asi can beat that retard in the head enough to cause him to have seizers and go brain dead - wait …. that’s implying he has a brain.
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WOW!!!! AT THE FACT THAT “WE” [ A FEW OF US SITTING HERE ] RAN ACROSS THIS PAGE … THIS IS CRAZY CASE UMMM A FEW OF US DIDNT KNOW THE EXACT STORY BUT THANKS TO THE INTERNET WE POPPED UP ON IT… YEAH TECHNICALLY WE CAN JUDGE HIM BUT YEAH “ETERNITY IN HELL” WOULD PROBABLY BE @ THE TOP OF THE LIST…
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IF IT WASNT FOR HIS DAMN SO CALLED “MOTHER” THAT ***ABANDONED*** HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE; NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPEN. MIND YOU SHE HAS 8 KIDS AND NONE OF THEM ARE WITH HER… UNLESS BABY ASI IS WITH HER NOW WHICH WOULD REALLY BE A SHAME.
HMMMM BUT HOW CAN U STAND BY A MAN THAT BEAT YOUR NEPHEW/SON PRETTY MUCH! & YOU HAVE 2 KIDS WITH HIM NOW THAT WONT KNOW HIM … WHAT A DAMN SHAME.
** AND ONE MORE THING, TO CLEAR THE AIR, NOOOOOOO ONE IN THE FAMILY KNEW WHAT THE FUCK TULOTO MALAKI WAS DOING UP IN MUTHA FUCKIN ALASKA! SHE MOVED UP THERE TO GET AWAY??? PLEASE SHE RAN AWAY THEN ABANDONED BABY!!! NOOOOOO ONE IN CALI, HAWAII OR SAMOA KNEW WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON AND IF, IIIIIIIIIIIIFFFF SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD ANYONE IN THE FAMILY OUTTA STATE HE WOULD HAVE HAD A HOME TO COME TO… & MOVING ON TO JOSH DUMBFUCKIN ASS, ITS GOOD WHAT EVER HAPPENS TO HIM CAUSE THAT SHIT WAS SO UNCALLED FOR, JUST THANK GOD THAT KILI, STEL & SIM ARE SAFE AWAY FROM HIM. SHE MAY STILL LOVE HIM AND MISS HIM, BUT STILL — SHE’LL GET OVER IT.
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Wow… I never thought this topic would reach out like this. But it was a very tragic situation that never should have happened. I’ve known Joshua Sagayo since I was 4 years old. His father Phillip is my Godfather, so that makes Josh my Godbrother. There’s no excuse for what he did to that child, but I’m sure as much as I know him he regrets it with all his heart. Josh aint a monster, he just did something monstrous. Go to hell? If y’all are true believers of God then that aint your judgement to place. I know 100% Josh is asking for God’s forgiveness, and it’s also being granted. I know Asi didn’t deserve that, and his mom was on some bullshit. Josh got his judgement and let’s leave it at that. He’s going to have to live with what he’s done for the rest of his life. To me that’s the biggest punishment anyone can bare. Plus he’s going to be kept away from his own children. I have a Son and I would know how that feels. That’s a terrible feeling he’s going to feel his whole sentence. That is time he’s never gonna get back and he for sure knows that. All in all I consider Josh my blood. I may not have kept a close relationship with him. But that’s how I feel about it. Asi’s family might not forgive Josh now, but hopefully in the future they can. To Asi and his family my prayers go out. I hope that boy is going to be alright. There’s no reason to bicker about what has happened, but to what is going to happen with Asi and what Asi’s immediate family is willing to do to help Asi grow up to be the best he can be.
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So Mike. What if this baby-smasher wasn’t your “godbrother”? What if you didn’t consider him “your blood”?
Really - let’s imagine that Asi was your nephew. Or better yet, your own son. Can you do that? Now, try to take “Joshua” out of the image, and put someone you don’t even know there. OK good. Now - imagine that your son is in the ICU, with bodily injuries and brain damage caused by this nameless, faceless guy smashing your child around a few times. Think of that. Seeing your baby lying all beaten, bruised and battered, with tubes coming out of him, and beeping machines all around. He looks so tiny and helpless, doesnt he? And hurt. He looks very hurt. And now, the doctors are telling you that your son may not make it. That the beating he suffered by this guy could possibly cause him to die, or be permanently brain damaged.
Now, honestly - do you feel warm and fuzzy towards the nameless faceless man who did this to your kid? Can you really feel that the guy who hurt YOUR kid, got his judgement, and lets leave it at that? Will you not be frustrated that this guy will be out of jail, walking the streets in maybe 6-8 years if he gets time off for good behavior? Do you really think that him being kept away from his own children is going to soften the fact that YOUR child may never be ok again?
If you say yes, then you are a fucking liar. Because, you have already shown that you are one of those people who will override all common sense, out of some stupid sense of loyalty to someone you know or happen to be related to. And if that was YOUR kid that was hurt, all bets would be off. You would be looking for blood.
Don’t even try to deny it. It is as plain as your loyalty to that piece of shit child abuser.
Have a nice day.
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Mike Cee reply on August 28th, 2008:
If it was some stranger OF COURSE I’d be lookin’ for Blood. But if it was a family member that did it to my kid I’m telling you right now I would not know how to react. It would hurt me more that he would do harm to my kid. I would truthfully want to know what possessed him to do such a thing to FAMILY. There’s no excuse for it I said that already, but there was obviously something wrong with him that day. Fact is Joshua isn’t a stranger and it wasn’t a random kid. Josh isn’t a person that goes out hurting kids on the regular like “piece of shit” child-abusers do. He lost his common sense somehow and made the hugest mistake he could ever make. He’s not some soulless person. Who knows what was going through his mind at the time. I have no idea, and I want to find out because he is FAMILY to me. Not some random stranger that my kid came across on the streets. If my child did get hurt on the streets, I’m half the blame for that because I am the one who is responsible for his safety NO ONE ELSE unless I delegated it to someone and I would blame the person who was in care of my child and the attacker. And I would still blame MYSELF because I exercised bad judgment on the person I delegated it to. And yes it doesn’t soften the fact the kid may never be okay. But neither does hatin’ him. So what’s the point? Yeah my loyalty is as plain as black and white. And that’s something a lot of people lack in this world. And you putting that scenario in my head doesn’t change a GOD DAMN THING. Because he’s not FACELESS, and he’s not a STRANGER. And my common sense is fine and in tact. This site was about “PEOPLE YOU’LL SEE IN HELL”. Who the fuck are you people to decide that? Y’all don’t have that power is my argument. 6-8 Years is what the JUDGE gave him, he has that power. Obviously the judge thought that’s what he deserved. Whatever you think he deserves is your opinion which is really irrelevant. Josh didn’t run, Josh turned himself in because he knew what he did. He plead GUILTY, so he’s not some piece of shit. He’s a man who lost it and took whatever punishment was coming to him. In conclusion y’all don’t decide who goes to hell, and y’all don’t decide how long someone deserves to be in prison. I thank God for that.
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Amy reply on August 28th, 2008:
What this site does is tell people WHAT HAPPENED, so it will no be forgotten, so that the people beyond the courts will know, so that something good ( mean, hard jail time for Josh ) might come of something bad.
We, the patrons of this site dont really give a flying fuck if Josh is your godfather, brother, father, mother, son…we dont care if you think he is a real nice, stand up guy. The shitbag did a terrible thing to a small, defensless child who was only acting as children do.
I wish i could decide how long bad people like Josh here spend in jail. Because that would be zero days. Instead they would be dead.
We dont care what was going through his mind, we only care about the victims.
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Mike Cee reply on August 28th, 2008:
And I don’t give a flying fuck that you don’t give a flying fuck.
Amy reply on August 29th, 2008:
Yeah Mike, you only care about the animal who half beat a kid to death.
Wow you are some peice of shit.
Max The Cat reply on August 28th, 2008:
Hey, fuck you Mike Cee. I’ve raised two kids, & when they were babies, had them cry all hours of the night and day when I was in the shittiest moods imaginable, and I never beat either one of them half to death. In fact, I never put hand one on my babies. Your friend Josh didn’t just make a mistake, he’s an evil little almost-baby killer and you’re a complete jackass for defending him. What was it you said?
“If it was some stranger OF COURSE I’d be lookin’ for Blood. But if it was a family member that did it to my kid I’m telling you right now I would not know how to react.”
You fucking hypocrite, I’ll tell you how you’d react, you want to cut his fucking heart out, and if you say anything else than that you’re a God damn liar too.
Putz!
Max
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Mazzi reply on August 29th, 2008:
Your very first line says it all : “If it was some stranger OF COURSE I’d be lookin’ for Blood”
So Mike, why in the world are you suprised that no one wants to hear you defend your piece of shit “Godbrother”?
He is a stranger to all of us, and we want BLOOD. Well actually only Max and Turtle and a few others want blood. The rest of us would be happy for him to go with a quick zap in the chair.
But you are a class A, 100% hypocrite. And I think you are too stupid to understand that.
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Mazzi reply on August 29th, 2008:
Oh yeah, and one more thing. Think about this, Mike Cee…
That hypothetical guy that beat the shit out of your son? He is someone’s brother, cousin, friend, sone, maybe even Daddy.
So how would you feel when one of his friends or relatives tells you what a REALLY GREAT GUY he was, when he wasn’t making that little mistake of smashing your kid nearly to death?
I think you would probably blow a blood vessel. Most normal people would.
One thing about PYSIH - most of us don’t actually know the victims, but we will stand behind them, and give them a voice and demand justice for them. And we would do the same, even if the victim was your son. Because, unlike some people, our allegiance never changes. We stand for the victim.
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eternal reply on September 1st, 2008:
mike cee- you referenced the name of this site. you already knew what you’d find here so if you take offense at the fact that we recognize that baby beaters like your godbro are going to hell (or the fact that we want them to) then go the fuck away. perhaps to visit that scumbag in jail. as a matter of fact, why don’t you go bail him out so he cam babysit your kid? stupid ass dipshit fucktard.
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