Mo starved to death the 4-year-old with special needs: police

A 39-year-old mother in Michigan can spend the rest of her life behind bars to do her role with her 4-year-old son, who, according to the authorities, was starving last year and weighed only 10 pounds at the time of his death.

Jessica Marie Burke was taken into custody last week and is currently facing a number of child abuse of the first degree in the agonizing death of the young Noah Burke, which was checked by Law & Crime Show. According to the Law of the state of Michigan, an indictment of the first degree for child abuse is a maximum sentence for life in prison.

On October 18, 2024 at 4:10 a.m. of the Bay City Police Department, a residence in the 900 Block of the McKinley Avenue reacted in response to a call to a woman as Burke identified-the dispatcher told that, according to a report by MLIVE, she was unavoidable and not breathable.

The medical emergency staff reacted to the address and the boy was later declared dead that day.

A subsequent autopsy reported that Noah's type of death was a murder and that the cause of death as a “severe extreme lack of calories and complications of it was an extreme rejection and the failure of the prosperity.

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A copy of Flint Michigan ABC Affiliate WJRT's criminal complaint claims that Burke “knowingly or deliberately caused serious physical damage” by “hunger and malnutrition”, which led to his death.

Bay County, Michael P. Kanuszewski, said that the victim had special needs and only weighed £ 10 when he was declared dead, about a quarter of what a healthy child at this age should weigh.

Other Court documents from WJRT said that Noah was born with esophagus spheres, which is a “heavy under developed swallow” that left it without “ability to suck, root or move the mouth”.

Kanuszewski told the station that the case was essentially a loss for everyone involved.

“She was full,” said the prosecutor about Burke. “He was not a easy child to take care of himself, but how can someone allow it. Therefore it is so tragic. Nobody wins in such a case, regardless of the result.”

Burke appeared in court last week when a judge set a bond of $ 250,000. It is currently to be released in court on May 29.