A Tennessee woman has allegedly confessed to torturing and killing her boyfriend’s 3-year-old kid, telling cops she put a cigarette in the boy’s ear and scorched his genitals with a lighter before beating him to death.
“I get to the house, she’s standing outside,” said Keith Horton, victim Kevin Horton’s father, in an interview with local Fox affiliate WHBQ about his girlfriend, Dominica Mosby, 29, of Memphis, who is accused with first-degree murder.
“I go in there to see my son, he’s ice cold, he’s purple,” Horton said. “He had been dead.”
Mosby allegedly confessed to killing Kevin on Friday, telling police that she tortured him with a lit cigarette and lighter before stomping on his stomach with the heel of her boot and hitting him with closed and open hands in his torso and chest — all because he refused to lie down, according to charging documents obtained by local CBS affiliate WREG.
Mosby claims Kevin was not feeling well and vomiting after being dropped off by his aunt, who denies the youngster was sick when she left him with Mosby on Friday morning.
“He was never sick,” his aunt, Jasmine Reece, told WHBQ. “That was merely a tale she told to get her story together and convince others that he was sick when he left my house. He didn’t get sick the entire time.”
Reece’s GoFundMe page claims Kevin was in “perfect health” when she dropped him up with Mosby. “She never called anyone not even his father to let anyone know that something was wrong with him until it was too late,” according to her description.
Mosby allegedly told police that she awoke about 3 a.m. Saturday to find Kevin lifeless. She phoned the police, and the boy was pronounced dead on the site. He had a lacerated liver, internal bleeding, burns on his ear and genitals, and considerable bruising, according to the medical examiner’s findings.
Mosby was arrested and charged with both murder and serious child abuse. She was being held without bond and was due to be arraigned on Tuesday.
