Mother Confesses Abandoning 3 Youngsters with Lifeless Brother to Stay with Man Who Killed Him: Authorities

Gloria Williams, 38, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of harm to a toddler in connection to the demise of her son, who was 8 years previous on the time of his demise, per Houston NBC affiliate KPRC.

Police first bought concerned when the oldest brother Jordan, known as 911 on October 24, 2021 to report back to police that his brother had been lifeless of their condominium for over a 12 months, and their mom not lived there. The youthful brother, Kendrick, was 8 years previous on the time of his demise, per police.

The three remaining brothers, aged 15, 10, and seven, have been reportedly residing alongside the physique of their brother all that point after their mom had moved out to go stay together with her boyfriend in one other condominium.

As they’d beforehand advised investigators, the boys testified that it was their mom’s boyfriend, Brian Coulter, who had crushed their brother to demise, kicking and hitting him till he’d stopped transferring. The youngest brother mentioned he was watching as his brother stopped blinking and his eyes turned black.

In response to CrimeOnline, the boys reported that Coulter had kicked and punched their brother within the again, face, legs, arms, and testicles till he died. In court docket for Coulter’s trial, one of many brothers claimed Kendrick was crushed to demise as a result of he was being egocentric by consuming all of the water within the room, per Houston Fox affiliate KRIV.

He was then reportedly lined with a blanket and left within the bed room, per authorities. Responding officers Kendrick’s physique in a state of decomposition so extreme it was skeletonized with bugs crawling throughout it. In response to the prison criticism, his date of demise was listed as November 20, 2020.

As reported by KRIV, Williams reportedly lived within the dwelling with the physique of her lifeless son from November 2020 to March 2021, earlier than she moved in together with her boyfriend, abandoning her different youngsters. They’d go on to stay there till Jordan’s 911 name in October 2021.

Even after Kendrick’s demise, Williams continued to obtain cash for him. She acquired a complete of $2,000 a month for 3 disabled youngsters, of which Kendrick was one. It was with this authorities help prosecutors revealed she was in a position to afford two separate residences.

As for the condominium, when police arrived, they discovered it had no furnishings, filthy carpeting, and was infested with roaches. The boys advised police the couple would present up each few weeks to drop off meals, however that Coulter would additionally bodily assault them at these instances.

25 minutes away from their horrific residing circumstances, police reported that Williams and Coulter have been residing in an condominium totally furnished and stocked with groceries, in accordance with KRIV.

The Harris County Examiner’s Workplace decided Kendrick’s explanation for demise as “homicidal violence” after proof of many accidents in keeping with blunt-force trauma.

Coulter has already been sentenced to life in jail for the homicide of Kendrick Lee. Williams has been accused of failing to intervene within the abuse of her youngsters, in addition to failing to offer meals and medical care to Kendrick earlier than his demise.

In an interview with KHOU from jail in October 2021, Gloria denied understanding that her son was lifeless within the condominium. This contradicts what investigators say she advised them; they are saying she admitted she knew her boyfriend had crushed him to demise in November 2020, and that she did not elevate the alarm as a result of he advised her to not.

She is accused of altering, destroying and concealing the physique to eliminate proof. Police additionally acknowledged that she had initially admitted to understanding Coulter had killed her son, and that he’d advised her to not inform police and she or he complied for concern Baby Protecting Providers would take her youngsters away and she or he would go to jail.

When requested why she deserted the youngsters, she insisted: “I checked on them each two weeks.” She did not elaborate as to why she did not discover her son’s decomposing physique throughout her bi-weekly visits.

KHOU additionally spoke with the youngsters’s paternal grandmother, Melody Robinson, who mentioned that a good older youngster, a 17-year-old woman on the time, had requested to maneuver in together with her shortly earlier than Kendrick’s demise due to Coulter’s conduct.

“She simply bought drained seeing him abuse her siblings and when she stepped in to attempt to shield them, [her mother] put her out,” Robinson advised the information station.

Gloria Williams’ sentencing is scheduled for November 11.