Bonus Minisode #13: Tazmir Ransom
Suffer the Little Children
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4.6 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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On April 15, 2020, less than a week after his seventh birthday, Tazmir Ransom died at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. This minisode may be short, but Tazmir deserves his story told.
This is the tragic story of Tazmir Ransom.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language and is not |
| 0:04.8 | suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:33.7 | Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children, the true crime podcast, giving voices back to the victims of child abuse and shining a harsh spotlight on the parents, guardians and caretakers who silence them. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm your host, Lane, and this is Patreon Exclusive minisode number 13, Tasmir Ransom. Today's minisode will be a short one, but this little boy deserves to have his story told. |
| 0:47.3 | I've been following his story since 2020, and I only found out how the legal case concluded by digging |
| 0:52.8 | through court records myself, |
| 0:59.4 | because after the initial articles about Tasmear's murder, not a single news station or website ever followed up on it. Tasmere Ransom celebrated his seventh birthday on April 9th, |
| 1:05.5 | 2020, which was only a couple weeks after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:16.7 | At around 6.50 p.m. on Easter Sunday of 2020, which fell on April 12th of that year, |
| 1:20.9 | medics responded to a report of a child having troubled breathing at his mother's home in the 2000 block of Clarence Street in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood. |
| 1:25.7 | Tasmir was rushed to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, |
| 1:28.6 | where he was found to be suffering from multiple severe injuries. The following day, |
| 1:33.5 | Tasmir's mother, then 26-year-old Natasha Charnash Franks, was arrested by Officer Laura Hammond |
| 1:39.2 | and taken into custody, charged with attempted murder. Tragically, on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, Tasmir, |
| 1:47.3 | who was born on April 9, 2013, succumbed to his injuries. ABC6 reported that Tasmere was beaten to death. |
| 1:56.2 | Prior to a vigil held on the evening of Tasmir's death, his paternal aunt, Tanjala Pinckney, told a reporter, |
| 2:02.8 | It's just heartbreaking. He just turned seven. There was no reason for her to take his life. |
| 2:07.9 | She wasn't supposed to have him. She could have just gave him back to us. |
| 2:12.3 | Tanjala, the sister of Tasmear's father, Jalil Ransom, told the reporter she knew the vigil |
| 2:17.3 | was against social distancing recommendations, but the grief over Tasmear's father, Jalil ransom, told the reporter she knew the vigil was against |
| 2:17.9 | social distancing recommendations, but the grief over Tasmir's sudden and unexpected loss |
| 2:22.7 | was too much for any of his family members to bear alone. According to Tanjala, |
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