An Indiana woman is accused of causing her foster son’s death by sitting on him for several minutes. Jennifer Lee Wilson, a 340-pound woman, allegedly suffocated 10-year-old Dakota Levi Stevens by sitting on him as punishment for “acting up” after he tried to escape her home. Investigators obtained doorbell camera footage of the incident showing Wilson on the boy for at least five minutes. Wilson was charged with reckless homicide after Stevens died at the hospital. Law&Crime’s Elizabeth Millner breaks down the shocking case.
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Evil woman
That lady needed weight training as well before being able to foster. She probably cant take care of herself how is she gonna take care of a child
Indiana and the care they show isn't there the foster system in Indiana is a joke
If a child is begging for someone else to take of them because they're being abused then believe the child and do something about it.
This beast decided to sit on him knowing well that he wouldn't survive being under her whale body. This is crazy. She deserves life in prison for this.
It is just outrageous that his family tried to get custody and failed. This could have all been prevented.
She shouldn't have had a foster child in the first place. She can't even take care of herself.
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Outlaw being a beached whale before this happens again
She was fostering to earn income to buy food. Its that simple.
Only six years in prison because women are a protected class and she killed a male, which arent considered human.
This guy must be a defense attorney.
I have no words 😢
Look at her. She couldn’t even take care of herself
Jaba the hut
She should have not been a foster mother. She clearly is out of shape. In no condition to take care of any child
For someone who takes in foster children she should have more empathy and understanding the emotions of children undergoing .any issues. She honestly pure evil. I hope she rots in jail for the rest of her life. That child was still so young and had so much to live for.
I know the biological family through aquaintances. It's been horrific to see, my heart breaks for them. What a failure of the system. JUSTICE FOR DAKOTA!!!
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Such a cutie pie ❤😢
What is her husband's name?
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Even if you’re not morbidly obese, why in your right mind would you sit on a child? She wanted to hurt him bad. There’s no remorse in her eyes, either.
That poor baby was looking for help. That he had to go to a neighbor's house because his foster parents wouldn't allow him to call his case manager, likely because of the abuse he was experiencing in the first place, only for no action by the neighbors to be taken, is heartwrenching.
Over and over and over again, and like so many other stories of child abuse, every adult that should have protected him had failed him.
American CPS do not give a st*t about children they place in care. They only care about stealing children from their parents
First degree murder with a deadly weapon. Her size
She cared more about McDonald’s dinners than her cute little adorable foster child… who she probably ate his happy meals too 😭
How disgusting! That poor poor baby.😢 Hope she rots in prison.
wtf?! what did that "parent" think would happen to a tiny child when you lay a 400-lb cow on top of him?! and that dcs office and the judges involved are all accountable – it was a disgustingly terrible ability to interpret the factors involved or their lazy or intentional criminal decisions that led to this kid being placed with a monster
She aint making it 6 years as a child killer in a womans prison
SHE COULDN'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF HERSELF 😢
Other family tried to get custody, the state murdered this child!
If she sat on me, a fully grown woman, it would kill me too. What was she thinking, poor child.
Only 6 YEARS IN PRISON SHE KILLED A CHILD A 10 YEAR OLD BOY 😯
As a foster parent, the money issue is tricky and there is no “clean” or easy way to address it. I’m single and live in a teacher’s salary…it’s doable but I don’t think I’d be able to stretch my salary alone to accommodate my foster kids. I think to suggest that fostering be completely uncompensated is unrealistic. Most people wouldn’t be able to make it work. That said, my personal way of handling it, since I take in older kids, is full transparency with the kids.
I break down the budget into what I bring in vs what they “bring in” via the foster care stipend.
Then it’s broken down into certain percentages for needs, wants, and savings. I have a rough ratio calculated, and pull money from both income sources in proportion to cover needs and wants bills. The rest of the foster stipend is split into a savings account and checking account that I open for my placements to use. So my current placement has direct access to the leftover “wants” money percentage of the stipend and then the rest goes into his savings account. I also don’t request respite care for vacations, unless he wants to skip. So when I traveled across the country all last month, he was by my side the entire time.
This type of tragedy happens all the time with elephant seals.
Whole new meaning to morbid obesity
Shouldn't be allowed to have any twinkies in jail as part of her sentence!
The government system has failed again! Disgusting woman!
Stop excusing her you fool
I want to know what else she was doing to this poor baby. Children don’t just run away and beg another to be adopted just for fun. This woman killed him like it was nothing. 6 years is a slap on the wrist.
Humpback whale
I’m sorry, if you are incapable of making healthy choices for yourself as an adult, you should be barred from fostering children….
Only 6yrs!? Wow 🤬
She is pure EVIL!!! I hope she never gets out of prison, or better yet…gets the death penalty!!! 🤬😡
Rest in peace little man, fly high…
6 years is not justice. This woman deserves to rot in jail the rest of her life. She should get a much longer sentence because of her position of power and because how vulnerable her victim was and she was charged with keeping him safe.
She get hits with involuntary manslaughter and Derek Chauvin gets convicted for murder lol k
What she thought if herself
Oh my goodness…this lady sat on a child and ended his life!! So many people failed this child. My condolences to the family. Rest in Peace, Precious child.🕯
She should never be able to live in a house again, never around children again.