Posted on 04/14/2025 7:01:27 PM PDT by simpson96
A woman was sentenced to five years in prison and one year of probation by the Porter Superior Court in Indiana, after she pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, after admitting that she pinned her adopted son, Dakota Levi Stevens, to the floor for about seven minutes, causing him serious internal injuries that eventually led to his death
The events occurred in April 2024 in the state of Indiana, when police officers responded to an emergency call about the death of the 10-year-old boy who died from serious injuries caused by his mother's punishment, who is morbidly obese.
The woman, identified as 48-year-old Jennifer Lee Wilson, who weighs 339.5 pounds, told police she punished the boy by sitting on him for running away to a neighbor's house and her reprimand was excessive.
According to the police, Dakota ran away to a neighbor's house to ask for help, as he claimed that his parents beat him and would not let him talk to his social worker, and even asked her to adopt him.
Lee Wilson then went to pick him up and took him back home and punished him by throwing him to the floor and sat on him with the intention of teaching him a lesson and would later call his social worker.
Minutes later, he asked him if he was ready to get up, but received no response, so he wondered if he was faking an injury. When he turned him over, he realized that he was unresponsive and had pale eyelids, so he immediately called the emergency services.
The events occurred in April 2024 in the state of Indiana, when police officers responded to an emergency call about the death of the 10-year-old boy who died from serious injuries caused by his mother's punishment, who is morbidly obese
Dakota died at South Bend Hospital two days later and when an autopsy was performed, forensic experts discovered that he suffered severe damage to organs and soft tissues, liver and lung hemorrhage, among other injuries. The St. Joseph County coroner's office determined that the cause of death was mechanical asphyxia caused by his mother.
One of my son’s friends “escaped” to my home. My son witnessed the whooping and was distressed to the point of tears. He never saw anyone get beat that way, especially not a parent pounding away on a child. “Mom, Mom! Please help him!” The desperation in my son’s voice was genuine.
I kept them there and called the police.
The parents arrived. They questioned why I believed their child over them. I advised that I believed my child, a first-hand witness, over anyone. It might cause me trouble, but I was putting the child first. I ran the risk of getting charged for keeping the child from the parent; given the circumstances, I was willing to take that risk.
I was not going to release him to the parents until the police were involved.
I got more of the story on both sides after they left. The boy was a troubled kid and the parents were lashing out in frustration. Not a healthy situation for either party.
He was removed and put into foster care.
Discipline, when properly done, is tempered and corrective. Having some obese slob crushing a child is just cruel torture. My heart breaks for this boy. If he had come to my home begging for help, I would have kept him safe until police arrived.
Not every kid is lying. Some are truly in need of help.
“Minutes later, he asked him if he was ready to get up, but received no response, so he wondered if he was faking an injury. When he turned him over, he realized that he was unresponsive and had pale eyelids, so he immediately called the emergency services.”
RIP poor little boy. There’s so much evil in the world!
Five years?? Hell, with any “good time served”, that’s just gonna be a glorified weight loss camp for her!
,,, into the slammer and she can go free when she can squeeze through the bars.
Now this case of I Can’t Breathe is the real thing.
Horrible.
She’s too stupid to ever be allowed around children again.
This would be abuse if she weighed 90 pounds.
You DO. NOT. sit on a child for any reason.
You’re an adult and need to act like one. And chances are, the kids would be better behaved if you did.
Isn’t this boy also autistic? I thought that was what I read somewhere. Now I’m really focused on the pronouns. What is that all about? If that person is trans, they need to blast this whole thing wide open and remove children who are in the “care” of mentally disturbed adults.
You're right - and the world is safer because the evil ones know people like you exist and will stand up to them.
THE “OFFICIALS” WHO ALLOWED THIS “ADOPTION” NEED TO BE EXAMINED.
Well, yeah, I'd say crushing a child to death might earn the adjective "excessive".
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