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.
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.
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