The monster Bronx mom who beat her 7-year-old daughter to death threw a tantrum in court on Monday — refusing to listen to the tragic girl’s grieving dad and grandmother.
It was the second time Navasia Jones had an outburst derailed her sentencing to an agreed-to 15 years in prison for little Julissia Batties’ brutal 2021 death.
“I really don’t wish to hear what they have to say,” Jones, 35, screamed at Julius Batties, her ex-partner and the girl’s heartbroken dad.
“What you say doesn’t matter to me.”
Last month, Jones wouldn’t even walk into the courtroom to face the music when Bronx prosecutors first tried to complete the sentencing part of her plea deal.
Jones pleaded guilty to a count of manslaughter for beating her daughter to death in their Bronx apartment — allowing her son, charged with molesting his kid sister, to walk free.
“I took responsibility for the sake of my son being released,” Jones shouted as she was being dragged from the courtroom on Monday.
It came after her initial refusal to hear Julissia’s father and grandmother deliver victim-impact statements to the court sparked a shouting match with Julius Batties.
“I don’t care what you got to say,” he shouted back at her, prompting Jones to snap “You have proof I murdered your daughter, my daughter?”
Then, she got into it with the judge.
“I don’t want to hear them,” she told Bronx Supreme Court Justice Joseph McCormack. “I’m not interested.”
The judge told Jones he was nonetheless allowing Julius Batties and his mother, Yolanda Davis, to speak.
“OK, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen to them,” the confessed killer replied, before she was ultimately hauled away by court officers.
The judge rescheduled the hearing for June 23. And he said he was considering whether to scrap the agreed-upon prison term — and instead sentence Jones to up to 25 years behind bars, the maximum for the charge of first-degree manslaughter.
Julissia’s half-brother, Paul Fine Jr., was also charged in her death, telling cops that he punched his sister eight times in the face — but he was cut loose in March when his mom copped to the killing.
The tragic case — in which little Julissia’s battered body was found on Aug. 10, 2021 — shocked the Big Apple and sparked allegations that the city’s Administration of Children’s Services had failed the girl.
ACS had investigated the mom and taken Julissia away from her at birth — but returned the girl to Jones’ custody less than two months before her death, despite a known history of violence and abuse in the home.
In a heartbreaking audio recording obtained by The Post, the youngster could be heard hysterically sobbing and begging to remain with her grandmother during a weekend visit.
“I feel like she didn’t deserved to be killed,” Davis, Julissia’s grandmother, wrote in her statement read in court Monday by Bronx Assistant District Attorney Alexandria Militano — saying Jones should’ve left the girl in her care.
“I just really feel like you deserve more than 15 years,” her statement said. “You deserve life after killing a precious child that was innocent that wasn’t asked to be bought into this world.”
Still, Jones showed no remorse, snapping “I don’t feel no sympathy for you all” at the family, while accusing her ex of abuse.
“Don’t sit here in the court and put on a front like that. You know how it went down,” she seethed.
Her lawyer, Edward Sapone, admitted outside court that the rant could come back to hurt Jones.
“Miss Jones was asked to give a statement, and during her statement she said things that the court was not happy with,” Sapone said, noting there’s a chance his client could face a larger sentence due to the outbursts.
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