Mother pleads guilty: Family says toddler severely beaten then placed in bed where he died
“All I could do was cry,” said the child's father. “I basically felt like I failed him as a father because I wasn’t there to protect him.”
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“All I could do was cry,” said the child's father. “I basically felt like I failed him as a father because I wasn’t there to protect him.”
Three years ago, a jury convicted Michael Willis, 51, on a slew of drug-related charges, but it hopelessly hanged when weighing whether Willis was responsible for the second-degree murder of 41-year-old Branden Pelot, who overdosed Jan. 22, 2018 on fentanyl-laced heroin sold by Willis.
The coroner determined the child's cause of death to be a homicide from "multiple blunt force injuries"
NEW ORLEANS - On April 29, police responded to reports of physical abuse that left a toddler unresponsive and later dead from his injuries—on May 3, his mother was arrested for homicide.
The New Orleans Police Department has arrested a woman in connection with the death of a toddler.