A little boy was crushed to death after his foster mother sat on him. The foster mother, Jennifer Lee Wilson, weighed 340 pounds when she allegedly sat on a 10-year-old boy to prevent him from running away.
The boy, Dakota Stevens, who lived in Indiana, USA, was reportedly misbehaving when Wilson sat on him for several minutes.
Wilson, who is 4 feet and 11 inches tall and 390 pounds, was arrested and charged with reckless homicide. Police responded to a call regarding a little boy who was not breathing at a house in Valparaiso, Indiana, the New York Post reported. Dakota, who is 4 feet and 10 inches tall and 91 pounds, reportedly did not have a pulse. Police found the boy with bruises on his lower neck and chest. Despite the efforts of the first responders to resuscitate the 10-year-old boy, he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
According to the report, Wilson told detectives that the little boy had run away from home, and she found him at a neighbour’s house. After the 48-year-old brought him back, he was still “acting bad.” She said that he claimed he would leave again when he threw himself on the ground on her front lawn.
Wilson reportedly tried to stop the boy from leaving again by sitting on him. The authorities shared that they possess disturbing footage of Wilson sitting on the boy’s head and neck, which was captured by the ring camera. Wilson claimed she sat on his midsection for around five minutes. Wilson also said that she thought the boy was faking when she realised he had stopped moving beneath her.
According to a report, she asked if he was faking and then got off him, which was when she saw his eyelids were pale. She performed CPR on the 10-year-old before calling the police. Dakota sustained multiple injuries, including organ and soft tissue damage, as well as liver and lung haemorrhaging.
He succumbed to his injuries and died at the South Bend Memorial Hospital, which was a month after he was placed in Wilson’s care. Wilson was fostering three other children, and her foster parent license was suspended and may be permanently revoked.
When the police spoke to the neighbour, officers were told that the boy wanted the neighbour to adopt them after his foster parents hit him in the face. The neighbour told the police that she did not see any wounds on the boy.