VI News Staff 1 year ago

Boy, 10, crushed to death when 340-pound foster mom sits on him because he was ‘acting up’

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 viewed by Express US.

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.


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