Per reports, the mom, later identified as 37-year-old Joan, reportedly beat her 5-year-old son, Andrew, with a shower head for a sickening reason – because the boy soiIed himself. An autopsy revealed that the boy had been repeatedly struck in the head and that he had also inhaled his own blood before dying of blunt force trauma.
The mother pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and admitted to beating her son to death, burying his body, then falsely reporting him as missing.
During the sentencing, prosecutors said that the boy was captured on tape telling his mother 9 chilling words just two weeks before she killed him. Read the full story here ▶
