A mother has admitted to brutally killing her five-year-old son after he broke her television set when he was playing Nintendo Wii.
Kim Crawford, 21, told police she beat her son Jamar Johnson 'harder than I have ever hit him' before leaving him to suffer in pain for almost a week at their Bronx apartment before calling for help.
She watched Jamar, who had suffered severe internal injuries, vomit and listened to him complain of terrible pain for five days but refused to take him to hospital for fear of arrest.
She admitted to police that she 'hit Jamar twice in the back and twice in the stomach,' according to the New York Daily News.
Five days later, after complaining of constant pain, she 'held Jamar's hand and it was cold' on Friday night, police said. 'He wasn't moving.'
She told officers she had not reported the horrific injuries because she was 'worried they'd see the bruises and I'd get in trouble.'
'Whether or not she did it on purpose doesn't matter, because my beautiful grandson is gone and he's not coming back.
'It's a tragedy. It's inexcusable.'
Grandmother, Betsy Johnson
Jamar died at Montefiore Medical Center late on Friday of an infection from a lacerated pancreas and intestine.
Miss Crawford has since been charged with murder and manslaughter and is currently being held without bond.
She has previous arrests for drugs and assault and a history of domestic incidents with Jamal's father, according to police.
Authorities were called nine times since 2006 for domestic incidents involving the couple and Miss Crawford had an open warrant for violating probation when she was arrested.
'I can't believe this,' Jamar's father told the Daily News.
His grandmother, Betsy Johnson, added: 'Whether or not she did it on purpose doesn't matter, because my beautiful grandson is gone and he's not coming back.
'It's a tragedy. It's inexcusable.'
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