A 10-year-old Michigan boy died after his obese foster mom sat on him for five minutes for “acting up” crushing him under her 340-pound frame.
Jennifer Wilson told police young Dakota Stevens had fled from her home that morning and that he was misbehaving after she retrieved him from a neighbor’s house.
Wilson said the 91-pound boy threw himself on the front lawn outside her home, at which point she sat on him while calling his caseworker as he screamed and eventually stopped moving, according to court documents.
She told cops she thought the boy was faking being hurt until she noticed his eyelids had gone pale when she rolled him over. A court affidavit described the foster mom as appearing “visibly distraught” when police arrived at the scene to find Dakota motionless and without a pulse.
He was airlifted to a nearby hospital, but there was nothing doctors could do. The child was taken off life support two days later — just a month after he had been placed in Wilson’s custody.
Disturbing Ring camera footage unearthed by authorities reportedly shows a 20-second clip of Wilson sitting on his head and neck as she squeezed the life out of his tiny frame — his desperate screams gradually growing quiet.
Once she realized what she had done, Wilson frantically told one of her other children to call 911. She could be heard in the footage yelling the boy’s name repeatedly as she noticed he had stopped breathing.
Wilson faces six years in prison if convicted. She was fostering three other children in her Berrien County home, but a Department of Child Services spokesman confirmed to the outlet that her foster parent license is now suspended and being reviewed for permanent revocation.
See some reactions below:
@PotW3ll97: “Yes, she killed a child. How is that even a question?”
@ItsBeamm: “She should go to prison just for being heavy enough to do that.”
@GaasCmb: “She earned a timeout, folks. She knew she was packing too many pounds to pull that stunt!”
@Swagmetax: “I don’t wanna believe this… Why are we sitting on our kids, number one? And second, if you can’t take care of yourself… why are you allowed to adopt a child?”
@blaze_mb21: “Someone bring in an elephant, please, for an assist.”
@Wetchilidog: “Yes. Poor baby. He’s small for 10, must’ve had a rough life. I’d like to know what the foster care agency or county that licensed this foster parent has to say. They should be sued or criminally charged, or both. Yes, she should definitely get the death penalty or life in prison.”
@Nhelycake: “She should be made to lose all that weight through harsh diet changes, forced to run every morning at 3 AM, eat only salad until she’s lost all that weight, and then jail her for life.”
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