mom faces homicide and youngster abuse costs for the death of her 2-month-old son, court docket paperwork stated.
North Las Vegas police arrested Tattiyona Wilson, 27, final week. Court paperwork stated the kid died at University Medical Center on Sept. 27, 2020. Paramedics eliminated a “foreign object” from the kid’s mouth, however he was in the end pronounced deceased.
There was no seen signal of harm on the time, police wrote in their report, however an post-mortem later decided the kid had three cranium fractures.
Each fracture had a separate affect web site, the post-mortem discovered, in accordance with court docket paperwork. One fracture was believed to have occurred 72 hours earlier than the boy’s death.
During an preliminary interview, Wilson instructed police she struggled with post-partum melancholy and “had no idea what could have caused [the baby] to die,” police wrote in the report. She additionally instructed police one among her different youngsters could have harm the 2-month-old, police stated.
Per week later, Wilson failed a polygraph take a look at. Police stated she then modified her story and stated one among her youngsters could have dropped the child.
“Wilson advised that she had never been through an incident like this before,” police wrote. “She changed her story because it ‘was a lot.’ Wilson started to cry.”
Child Protectives Services had two earlier instances for the household, one among which was discovered unsubstantiated, police stated. The second was for Wilson testing constructive for marijuana when the kid was born, police stated.
Wilson faces one depend of open homicide and three counts of kid abuse of neglect with substantial bodily hurt. She was being held Monday with out bail.
