In the US state of Indiana, a woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for strangulating her 10-year-old child to death. The woman, identified as Jennifer Lee Wilson (48), who weighs more than 154 kg, sat on Dakota Levi Stevens last April because he was “acting”. In October he pleaded guilty to manslaughter by negligence after admitting to sitting on the young child for five minutes.
Senior Judge Michael Bergerson ordered Ms Wilson to serve the maximum sentence of six years in a state correctional facility. according to The Times of Northwest IndianaThe final year of the sentence is suspended, meaning Ms. Wilson can spend the final year of her sentence on probation.
According to court documents, Ms Wilson reported to police that Stevens had thrown himself to the ground at her home and that she had “laid on his midsection and called his caseworker”. She further said that she lay on top of him for about five minutes, after which she stopped moving. Specifically, she thought he was lying.
“Wilson stated that when he tried to stop her from leaving, he did not know whether he tackled Dakota or whether they fell to the ground, although his intention was to catch her,” the court filing said.
When officers arrived at Ms. Wilson’s home in the town of Valparaiso, Porter County, they found Stevens not breathing and had no pulse. They also found bruises on Stevens’ lower neck and chest.
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Due to severe trauma, Stevens was taken to South Bend Hospital. However, two days later, he was declared dead and doctors ruled it a homicide due to mechanical asphyxiation.
The autopsy revealed that Stevens was 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighed only 40 kilograms, while Wilson was 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 154 kilograms.
A neighbor told police that 30 minutes before the incident, Stevens ran over to her house and asked if she could adopt him. According to the documents, she was allegedly struck in the face and her foster parents prevented her from calling her case worker.
