PHOENIX — A notice of claim has been filed against Arizona's Department of Child Safety after the death of 11-year-old Chaskah Davis. Chaskah died in January 2022. His grandmother, Stephanie Fasthorse-Davis, and her boyfriend, Thomas Desharnais, were arrested and charged with his murder.

Chaskah's then 9-year-old brother was also subjected to years of horrific abuse, records show, and this new notice of claim is filed on his behalf. It says Chaskah and his brother were victims of torture and relentless cruelty, alleging DCS had done a search, they would have realized that Fasthorse-Davis and Desharnais did not have legal custody of the two children.

The claim states the two children were tortured with knives, forced to wear a canine shock collar, burned, and mutilated. Worst of all, i

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