A 10-year-old Indiana boy was horrifically crushed to death after his 340-pound foster mother sat on him for several minutes and ‘thought he was faking’ as he gasped for breath.
Jennifer Lee Wilson, 48, from Indiana, was charged with reckless homicide in death of her foster child Dakota Stevens.
On April 25, police rushed to the home in Valparaiso, Indiana, responding to an emergency call about a child who wasn’t breathing.
Officers discovered the boy had no pulse and noticed a disturbing bruise on his lower neck and chest.
Dakota was rushed to the hospital, but despite desperate attempts to resuscitate him, he later died.
It was then revealed that Wilson – who is just 4’11’ tall, but weighs 340 pounds – told investigators that Dakota had run away from home earlier that day, according to documents obtained by Express US.
She claimed she found him at a neighbor’s house and brought him back, but he was still ‘acting bad’ and had thrown himself on the ground.
Wilson confessed to sitting on the small boy – who was just 4’10’ and weighed only 90 pounds – for approximately five minutes.
Jennifer Lee Wilson, 48, from Indiana, was charged with reckless homicide in death of her foster child Dakota Stevens
Dakota Stevens, a 10-year-old Indiana boy, was horrifically crushed to death after his 340-pound foster mother sat on him for several minutes and ‘thought he was faking’ as he gasped for breath
Ring surveillance footage revealed the moment Wilson was laying on the boy’s neck and head area while he screamed.
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His screams continued loudly in the video, until they began to slowly fade.
When Dakota eventually stopped moving, Wilson chillingly admitted she believed he was ‘faking’ – until she noticed his pale looking eyelids.
She can be heard yelling ‘Dakota!’ before she tells another child to dial 911.
‘Are you faking?’ she asked the boy who she crushed to death with her body weight.
‘I was laying on him and he was acting bad,’ Wilson said in the video.
Two days later, on April 27, South Bend Memorial Hospital confirmed Dakota had died.
The boy suffered catastrophic injuries including organ and soft tissue damage, liver and lung hemorrhaging.
When Dakota eventually stopped moving, Wilson chillingly admitted she believed he was ‘faking’ – until she notices his pale looking eyelids
Ring surveillance footage revealed the moment Wilson was laying on the boy’s neck and head area while he screamed. His screams continued loudly on the video, until they began to slowly fade
According to an autopsy, the cause of death was mechanical asphyxia and the manner of death was determined to be homicide.
A neighbor told the authorities that Dakota ran to her house that day to ask her to adopt him after he said his ‘parents’ hit him in the face, Fox News reported.
Wilson was sentenced in January to six years in prison, with one year suspended to be served on probation, according to NBC5.
She lived with three adopted children in her home.
After the horrific incident, the Department of Child Services confirmed her foster parent license is suspended and under review.
