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Mother kills 9-year-old son with a hammer
10 Jul 2012 at 11:07hrs | Views
A US woman suspected to be a hooker snapped and bashed her 9-year-old son's head with a hammer the NY Daily News reported.
The 40-year-old woman, ex-con, Tenika Revell called the police just before 11 p.m on Friday and coldly told the operator that she killed her child and had taken pills to try to end her own life too.
Cops rushed to her Brooklyn apartment and found the woman alive. But her son Bernard couldn't be saved.
The accused killer's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbours were stunned by the violence, saying that Revell appeared to adore her son, whom she often called "Little B."
According to the police Bernard was found with bruises and lacerations to his head.
The monster mom, treated at Woodhull Hospital, was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.
The 40-year-old woman, ex-con, Tenika Revell called the police just before 11 p.m on Friday and coldly told the operator that she killed her child and had taken pills to try to end her own life too.
Cops rushed to her Brooklyn apartment and found the woman alive. But her son Bernard couldn't be saved.
According to the police Bernard was found with bruises and lacerations to his head.
The monster mom, treated at Woodhull Hospital, was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.
Source - NYDaily News
