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The abused 7-year-old girl killed in her Bronx home over the summer will finally be laid to rest — now that her squabbling parents have settled their court battle over her remains, according to court papers filed Wednesday.

Julius Batties, the father of little Julissia Batties, won the right to claim the remains of his “princess” from the city morgue, where she has been kept since her tragic death inside her mom’s apartment in NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses on Aug. 10.

Mom Navasia Jones, 35, had filed a petition in Bronx Supreme Court in September asking a judge to grant her control over funeral arrangements, saying she wanted to cremate her daughter so she “will always have something to remember [her] by.”

Julissia died while in the custody of her mother Navasia Jones in August. Gregory P. Mango

But the distraught dad, 37, said that he wanted Julissia buried, telling The Post last month that he would “never agree” to have her cremated.

In court papers, Batties also argued that it was unseemly for Jones to be granted control over their daughter’s final resting place — given that the girl was in her care when she died.

“Even if she did not inflict the final blow she did not protect her when she could have,” Batties wrote in an affidavit filed earlier this month and obtained by The Post.

His attorney also claimed in a filing that Jones “is one of two suspects directly or indirectly responsible for her being killed.”

Nether Batties’ or Jones’ attorneys returned multiple requests for comment. No criminal charges have been filed against Jones — or anyone else in the case which remains under investigation.

Julissia’s body had evidence of trauma all over when she was discovered inside the apartment, and the death has been ruled a homicide from “blunt force abdominal trauma.”

Both the girl’s mother and her 17-year-old half-brother were questioned by detectives, law-enforcement sources said.

There was a known history of violence in the child’s home, and an alleged admission from the half-brother that he punched Julissia eight times in the face the day she died — though it was later determined those blows were not what ultimately killed her, sources have said.


  Batties wants to have his daughter buried while her mother wanted to cremate her remains. Gabriella Bass Batties wants to have his daughter buried while her mother wanted to cremate her remains. Gabriella Bass

Batties wrote in his affidavit that “it is my understanding that at some point there will be an arrest, and that will help at least provide me some closure as to who is responsible for her death.”

The agreement that he and Julissia’s mom came to, which was signed by a judge late last week, allows him to bury his daughter, while giving Jones a separate viewing time at a funeral home in Brooklyn.

Prior to her tragic death and the ensuing fight over her remains, Julissia had been the subject of a heated custody battle, with her paternal grandmother Yolanda Davis fighting in vain for years for the right to care for her.


  Julissia’s grandmother Yolanda Davis holding a photo of the little girl in the dress the family plans to bury her in. Gabriella Bass Julissia’s grandmother Yolanda Davis holding a photo of the little girl in the dress the family plans to bury her in. Gabriella Bass

“We need to bury my granddaughter,” Davis told The Post on Wednesday. “I don’t want her in the morgue any longer.”

Davis said her granddaughter should be laid to rest within the next two weeks, and that she was making prayer cards for the funeral. She wants to bury Julissia in a white dress the girl had picked out to attend a wedding.

“Let her little soul rest in peace now,” she said.

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