Parents arrested months after 1-year-old was thrown from vehicle, killed
The family of seven were making their way their way across the state on Alligator Alley when a surveillance video at a toll plaza captured what is likely the last image of the youngest in the group alive.
Dressed in a green and blue T-shirt and a diaper, 1-year-old Marvens Dorizar was sitting on his mother’s lap. Beside him, his father, driving the 2006 Nissan Frontier. In the rear of the old truck were Marvens’ siblings and another adult. None of the children, whose ages were 10, 7, 4 and 1, was restrained in any sort of child seat, though a child seat was captured on surveillance tape among a suitcase and cooler in the back bed of the truck.
The surveillance footage is now being used to help investigators bolster their criminal cases against Marven’s parents, whom investigators claim are responsible for the death and injuries of their children.
Less than an hour after the footage was taken in the toll plaza, in the fast lanes of Interstate 75, just before the U.S. 27 interchange near Mile Marker 28, the truck’s worn left tire blew and Marc Dorizar, 34, lost control of the truck.
The truck veered right. It rotated clockwise and overturned, barreling through a wire fence and coming to stop on its roof in the Everglades. Marvens was thrown from the truck.
And for the next two hours first responders, including the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue Dive Team, frantically searched for him. Two hours later he was found in a canal. A medical examiner said the infant drowned.
Marven’s siblings were taken to a Broward County hospital. His mother and the other adult passenger, a 56-year-old woman in the back seat, was also injured. None of the adults was wearing seatbelts.
Now, nearly a year after the Sept. 3 crash, the children’s parents have been arrested on 16 charges of child abuse and child neglect. Dorizar, the child’s father, has also been arrested on aggravated manslaughter of a child charge.
On Tuesday, Dorizar and the infant’s mother Charline Coriolan, who live west of Tampa, were booked in the Hillsborough County Jail after being arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol on a warrant out of Broward County.
A probable cause affidavit for their arrests says Dorizar drove the truck knowing that the left tire was unsafe. Both are being held responsible for not having the children in child restraints.