Mother pressured kids to stay with brother’s rotting physique for greater than a 12 months | EUROtoday

The newest headlines from our reporters throughout the US despatched straight to your inbox every weekday

Your briefing on the most recent headlines from throughout the US

Your briefing on the most recent headlines from throughout the US

A lady pressured her kids to stay with the rotting physique of their useless eight-year-old brother for greater than a 12 months in a dirty, roach-infested condo.

A choose on Tuesday sentenced Gloria Williams, 38, to 50 years in jail.

Her sentence got here after she had pleaded responsible in October to 2 counts of harm to a toddler for abuse that concerned eight-year-old Kendrick Lee, who was crushed to loss of life by her boyfriend, and one other baby, the newspaper reported.

Police who found the boy’s physique in October 2021, stated it was essentially the most disturbing scene they’d labored of their careers and that it “seemed too horrific to be real.”

Lee’s three deserted brothers had been dwelling alone for months and have been skinny, malnourished and hungry when authorities discovered them in an unfurnished Harris County condo that was infested with flies and roaches and had dirty carpet.

Authorities stated the youngsters had waited for Williams to name authorities to report that their brother had been crushed to loss of life by her boyfriend, Brian Coulter. Investigators say the mom by no means made that decision and the oldest surviving sibling, then a 15-year-old, lastly overcame his worry and known as authorities. The two different siblings have been 7 and 10 years previous once they have been discovered by authorities.

open picture in gallery

Williams was sentenced following a virtually two-day courtroom listening to that targeted on the extent of her position in Lee’s loss of life. Her protection attorneys blamed Coulter for a lot of the abuse. Coulter was sentenced in April to life in jail with out parole for Lee’s loss of life. The sheriff’s workplace had beforehand stated Coulter had persistently hit the youthful kids and had fatally crushed Lee someday round Thanksgiving in 2020.

Just a few months after the deadly beating, Williams and Coulter moved out and went to stay at one other condo about 25 minutes away, leaving the three surviving siblings to fend for themselves as their brother’s physique slowly decomposed, authorities stated.

Williams relinquished parental rights over her kids after her arrest. The two youthful siblings have since been adopted, whereas the eldest is with a foster household, the newspaper went on to report.