Mother Sentenced After Abandoning 3 Children to Stay Alone with Lifeless Brother’s Stays: Prosecutors

Gloria Williams, 38, was sentenced to 50 years behind bars on Tuesday after pleading responsible to 2 counts of harm to a toddler in October. Williams was accused of abandoning three of her youngsters to dwell with the corpse of their brother, as she moved in to a brand new house with the person who has since been convicted of beating the boy to demise.

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 The youthful brother, Kendrick, was 8 years outdated on the time of his demise, per police.

The three remaining brothers, aged 15, 10, and seven, had been dwelling alongside the physique of their brother all that point.

In her sentencing listening to, Williams reportedly expressed “deep remorse” for her actions. She additionally allegedly wrote in an affidavit she felt the youngsters had been higher off distant from her boyfriend, whereas her protection recommended her inaction was attributable to concern.

As they’d beforehand informed 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 shifting. The youngest brother stated he was watching as his brother stopped blinking and his eyes turned black.

Based on 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 ingesting all of the water within the room, per Houston Fox affiliate KRIV.

He was then reportedly coated 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. Based on the legal grievance, his date of demise was listed as November 20, 2020.

As reported by KRIV, Williams reportedly lived within the house 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 dwell 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 flats.

As for the house, when police arrived, they discovered it had no furnishings, filthy carpeting, and was infested with roaches. The boys informed 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 dwelling circumstances, police reported that Williams and Coulter had been dwelling in an house absolutely furnished and stocked with groceries, in line with KRIV.

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

Coulter was sentenced to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole for the homicide of Kendrick Lee again in April.

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 realizing that her son was lifeless within the house. This contradicts what investigators say she informed them; they are saying she admitted she knew her boyfriend had crushed him to demise in November 2020, and that she did not increase the alarm as a result of he informed her to not.

She is accused of altering, destroying and concealing the physique to eliminate proof. Police additionally said that she had initially admitted to realizing Coulter had killed her son, and that he’d informed her to not inform police and she or he complied for concern Youngster 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 stated that an excellent older youngster, a 17-year-old lady on the time, had requested to maneuver in together with her shortly earlier than Kendrick’s demise due to Coulter’s habits.

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

In case you are experiencing or witness youngster abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Youngster Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Youngster or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. Should you consider a toddler is in speedy hazard, name 911.