No Justice: 2YO Died Of Traumatic Brain Injury Accompanied By Strangulation & Suffocation

[Sugar Cookie]

Leah Mullinix, 22 the mother of Dante Mullinix, the 2-year-old boy who police said died of traumatic brain injury accompanied by strangulation and suffocation, in mid-September, has been charged with endangering the welfare of children, court documents show.

On September 20, the York County District Attorney’s Office announced criminal homicide and endangering the welfare of children charges against 39-year-old Tyree Bowie in connection with Dante’s death.

Police received a report from York Hospital staff around 10:30 p.m. on September 6 that a man, later identified as Bowie, dropped the unresponsive child off at the hospital.

Dante was transported to Hershey Medical Center, where he died eight days later.

According to the criminal complaint, Bowie allegedly admitted to police on September 7 he was the one person caring for the boy when he stopped breathing, adding that he fed Dante animal crackers and noticed the child was not breathing. That’s when Bowie rushed the boy to the hospital.

The child’s mother, Leah, spoke with FOX43 on September 18. She told FOX43 that she left Dante with a babysitter, Bowie, because she had a migraine and was going to the emergency room. Leah said that at the time she was dropped off, her child was fine, FaceTiming him around 9 p.m. on September 6.

“And then he FaceTimed me again after 10 p.m., flipping out saying, “he’s not breathing, he’s not breathing,’ and then I was just like, ‘call the ambulance, bring him to the hospital or something because my son needs medical attention.’ I told him that multiple times and then he finally brought him in. My son was completely limp, he gave him to a nurse, and then he took off,” Leah told FOX43.

https://fox43.com/2019/01/03/mother...LbI2Bj0dVRXQSbUnYG47-vbCanB41zkOkH1qxA86JO-Vg

 

[Sejanus]

End him.
He is an afront to law abiding society.
Mom was too cute to be involved with a 39 year-old freak Show like him anyway.
I really hope she wasn't fun when is hog I think I just puked in my mouth a little bit with that thought.

 

[Prettypink513]

What a beautiful boy

 

[Olivia]

STUPID CUNT!!!!!! You consider that junkie looking motherfucker suitable to “babysit” your child???!!!!! Over a fucking migraine!!!!!???
What did they do for you at the emergency room exactly?? What exactly did you think they would do? No, no wait.... Let me guess....you went to get a cold compress? No. Ibuprofen? Nah....Both are sold at a local drugstore. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that you left your beautiful child with that walking dead zombie motherfucker to get some drugs that you no doubt intended to share with him because his dick just dat good.
Fuck you bitch.
God. It’s nights like tonight that I hope they read this shit. I’m fuming.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A migraine have we heard that one yet?

 

[Sudonim]

STUPID CUNT!!!!!! You consider that junkie looking motherfucker suitable to “babysit” your child???!!!!! Over a fucking migraine!!!!!???
What did they do for you at the emergency room exactly?? What exactly did you think they would do? No, no wait.... Let me guess....you went to get a cold compress? No. Ibuprofen? Nah....Both are sold at a local drugstore. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that you left your beautiful child with that walking dead zombie motherfucker to get some drugs that you no doubt intended to share with him because his dick just dat good.
Fuck you bitch.
God. It’s nights like tonight that I hope they read this shit. I’m fuming.

Not saying the mom didnt have fault here but I am going to point out that migraines can be much worse than you seem to think they are.

I personally suffer from migraines. Mine aren't all that bad on the scale of things. My sister in law on the other hand has them so bad that when she gets them it puts her into the ER. Every single time. They give her demerol, which isn't something that can be bought over the counter and is something they admit you into the hospital for an over night stay while using. My mother inlaw suffers such bad migraines that they are now testing her for cluster headaches. Her getting a migraine can put her out of work for 3-4 days and involves her sitting in the hospital hooked to oxygen and all kinds of fun pain killers.

It was verified that she was in fact in the hospital receiving treatment for a migraine when this happened. He also is reported as being a friend, not her dick. Apparently her and her son were living in a shelter, when she started to suffer the migraine she called him for a ride to the hospital and he watched the kid while she was there. She's being charged because she placed her child in his care. Plain and simple.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

If the mom had any knowledge that he did drugs or did not have the patience to watch the child than she deserves to be charged.

I have been to the emergency room several times with my father, deceased brother, myself and my children and most of those times I have seen people being treated with their children there. I myself would be included in that statement.

Whether the mom made a poor judgement call or was negligent a child has been killed and this man deserves to pay for what he did.

I am sure the charges against the mother will be dropped if no new evidence shows she had any involvement in the child's death.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Very interesting article on little Dante and his mother Leah

Some lowlights of the article

Dante was mostly non verbal and could say only a few words including “ew” and “yeah.

He had problems chewing and swallowing food and was lagging in walking.

Dante’s father, Joe Sanchez, is serving 13 1/2 to 32 years in prison for aggravated indecent assault of a 10-year-old girl who disclosed that Sanchez had been sexually molesting her for more than one year. He had threatened to hurt her if she ever told anyone.

He also has two children with Leah's sister.

The mother is very oblivious to her role in her son's tragic life and death.

on Aug. 31, 2018. He’d been suffering from swelling and ulcers on his penis.

Leah told hospital staff members that her son had the condition for four days — but it could’ve been longer. They gave her two prescriptions. But she did not fill them, police said, and instead went back to the shelter.

Dante was screaming and crying in pain.

So ACCESS-York (shelter) staff members filed a report with state authorities. The York County Office of Children, Youth and Families came out the next day and forced her to fill the prescriptions.

Employees at the shelter, police said, had to show her how to use the medication. They even administered it themselves to Dante.

During this time Leah's sister was attempting to gain custody of Dante but Leah failed to how to court.

‘This poor kid was doomed from the beginning:' The tragic life and death of Dante Mullinix

The boy died of traumatic brain injury, with strangulation and chest compression, after nearly being homeless the final months of his life.

www.ydr.com

 

[Satanica]

Blood boiling details.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Dante

 

[GoneWest]

Aunt of abused 2-year-old puts up billboard blaming child services for his death

York police last year charged Sarah Mullinix with sharing Children Youth and Families documents on her Facebook page, but a judge dismissed the case. Now she's speaking out again.

www.pennlive.com

Tons of articles posted regarding this case.
I need to read back again how to post portions of articles bc I don’t remember even slightly, so just go on link to read. It’s very interesting and looks, surprise surprise, like CPS really fucked the pooch on this one.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Sugar Cookie]

After years of litigation and delays, and a day and a half of jury selection, the trial of Tyree Bowie over the alleged murder of 2-year-old Dante Mullinix began Tuesday afternoon.

Bowie, 41, is accused of the "brutal" beating of Mullinix on Sept. 6, 2018, after his mother, Leah Mullinix, 26, left him with the defendant for an hour and 40 minutes one afternoon while she went to the hospital for a migraine.

He is facing charges of murder of the first and third degree and child endangerment.

Bowie was seen on camera bringing in the limp body of Dante Mullinix to the emergency room on the September evening, meeting with Leah, who had already been at the hospital.

The boy had a myriad of injuries on his body, including head, spine and chest compression injuries, strangulation and fingernail marks, brain and throat swelling, genital problems and a bite mark on his arm.

Both sides agreed that much of Bowie and Dante Mullinix's day was captured on security cameras around the county, from the Walmart where Bowie cashed a check to the Burger King drive through where Bowie got Dante and Leah Mullinix lunch.

Barker, when first addressing the jury, suggested the multitude of external and internal injuries found on Dante Mullinix point to a vicious assault.

Barker argued that the footage shows Dante Mullinix did not have many of the major injuries in the footage compared to when emergency services received the child that evening.

"The question is what happened? How do we go from active little boy captured on video to an hour and 40 minutes later being almost dead," Barker said during his opening argument. "What happened is the defendant."

Barker accused Bowie of changing his story of Dante's injuries, hesitating in bringing the boy to the hospital, and he claimed there was a positive DNA match for him in Dante Mullinix's bite injury.

Holt said the injuries and blame fall on the mother, saying Bowie had seen Leah Mullinix was responsible for the many of the injuries on the boy.

According to Holt, the chest compression injuries could be from misapplied CPR to the child when Bowie thought he was choking on a cookie in the car. Holt said Bowie brought Dante Mullinix on the steering wheel, applied CPR which caused the boy to blow mushy cookie from his sinuses onto Bowie.

Ultimately, Holt suggested the boy died from a brain bleed, which caused him to pass out in the back seat of Bowie's car.

"No good deed goes unpunished. That’s something that we all learn in our lives," Holt said to the jury. "My client, Mr. Bowie, was on the wrong end of one of those good deeds. ... Dante Mullinix was doomed before my client ever got involved with him."

Video footage shows Bowie running Dante Mullinix to the York Hospital emergency room where a nurse rushes him back into the department. Dante Mullinix was flown to Hershey Medical Center and died a few days after.

Leah Mullinix had known Bowie for less than a month when she left Dante with Bowie after spending most of the day with him and having a migraine set on that afternoon.

She is currently facing a felony count of child endangerment for allegedly not providing proper medical care after Dante had developed genital problems and she failed to fulfill prescriptions, despite medical and shelter staff providing what she needed.

'No good deed goes unpunished': murder trial of Tyree Bowie begins after numerous delays

The 1st day in the trial of Tyree Bowie, accused of killing 2-year-old Dante Mullinix in 2018 after his mother left him with Bowie one afternoon.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

“I’m sitting here crying I never went thru something like that baby I’m scared.”

Tyree Bowie texted this to Leah Mullinix soon after bringing her 2-year-old son Dante to York Hospital, according to new evidence admitted on the fourth day of his trial on Friday.

Among the notes in that investigation included texts exchanged by Bowie and Leah Mullinix on the evening of Sept. 6 to 7.

The conversation begins around 9 p.m. Bowie tells Leah Mullinix Dante had fallen out of the car but was OK.

“… I already have cys up my ass lil **** needs to learn how to listen,” Leah Mullinix replied in the thread.

According to testimony, about an hour later and after a video call with her, Bowie texts Leah Mullinix that they are headed to the hospital and all he did was give Dante some cookies. After dropping Dante Mullinix at the hospital, Bowie returned to the residence he was staying at in Northern York County, where he texted Leah for updates.

“Yo I’m a sit out here for a bit I got to cover my head yo I never went thru s--- like this before wtf happened he was fine then nothing wtf happened,” Bowie texted Leah Mullinix around 11 p.m.

'Baby I'm scared': new text message evidence in homicide trial for Mullinix toddler

The fourth day of the murder trial of Tyree Bowie for the death of toddler Dante Mullinix highlighted text messages.

www.yahoo.com

 

[HijabiGirl]

The lawyer fails to mention why the asshole BIT the child? That's not ever a form of CPR.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

“… I already have cys up my ass lil **** needs to learn how to listen,” Leah Mullinix replied in the thread.

So she was already a piece of shit. The initial way this played out she was portrayed as an overwhelmed single mother who just met a bad guy.

Hopefully after the full story comes out both of these people will be locked away in prison for a long time.

Dante's killer is not the father of this baby.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I hate this woman and wish her nothing but a miserable life until she takes her last breathe.

The mother of a toddler killed in 2018 denied causing her son any harm, blamed the man accused, and introduced multiple new boyfriends who were connected to the Latin Kings gang into the story.

Leah Mullinix, mother of 2-year-old Dante Mullinix, testified on the eighth day of proceedings in the trial of Tyree Bowie, who is accused of killing the child the evening of Sept. 6, 2018.

The unresponsive toddler was taken to York Hospital after Leah left him with Bowie, after she said she had a migraine and went to York Hospital, for a span of less than two hours.

The toddler was covered in bruises, had a brain bleed and had to be intubated. He was flown to the Hershey Medical Center where he died on Sept. 15, less than a week before his third birthday.

Medical experts have disagreed during the trial over what killed Dante. The causes cited in testimony have ranged from a traumatic brain injury to suffocation and strangulation to brain damage by choking.

Bowie, represented by attorney Farley Holt, has insisted on his innocence, saying the toddler choked on a cookie while in his care. He said Bowie attempted to revive Dante with some form of CPR before getting him to York Hospital.

The prosecution, led by Assistant District Attorney Tim Barker and Senior Deputy Prosecutor Rachel Sherman, allege Bowie attacked the toddler, strangling him and slamming him into the ground, causing the "numerous" bruises.

During Friday's proceedings, the prosecution brought to the stand Leah, who is currently facing her own legal case of a felony count of child endangerment.

In 2018 Dante had balanitis, an infection of the penis, which eventually was discovered to be type two herpes. Leah is charged with not getting the medication he needed for the issue and for leaving the toddler alone in the care of Bowie.

Before Leah's testimony, the prosecution called two forensic experts from the Pennsylvania Police Department, serologist Jennifer Marchland and trace evidence expert Jessica Mulhollem.

Marchland identified the types of substances found on Bowie and Dante's clothing. She most notably concluded that Bowie's saliva could be on what looks like a bite mark found on the upper right arm of Dante.

Mulhollem was sent to test for materials like cookie residue in the car. She found areas that looked like cookie residue around the driver side of the car where Bowie claims Dante shot the cookie remains out of his nose.

Mulhollem also said she did not find any traces of makeup, which Holt and Bowie are alleging was used by Leah to cover the bruises on Dante.

During questioning by the prosecution, Leah described their relationship as "boyfriend/girlfriend" for the couple of weeks she knew him.

She recounted meeting Bowie through Facebook after he had reached out when she said she made it public she was homeless with Dante. She said he had bought them food and diapers and helped get them into an abuse shelter.

Bowie was her main source of transportation, as her car had broken down. She said Bowie had picked up the medication but had claimed his car had broken down before he got it to her.

Barker walked Leah through Sept. 6, recounting every detail of what she did that day. He catalogued all the bruises on the toddler's face and body that were discovered at York Hospital where she denied ever seeing them before leaving him with Bowie that evening.

Leah acknowledged some of the bruises on Dante's head, which had been marked in previous photographs and body charts medical professionals made of the child on Sept. 2 and 6.

Barker also pulled up evidence of Leah Mullinix's claim Dante would bang his head against walls and objects when frustrated, as the child was nonverbal and only knew a few words. He then pulled up a video of a frustrated Dante banging his head against a chair in a hospital office he was in with Leah.

She said the grievous injuries that resulted in Dante's death were Bowie's fault, saying they all related to her leaving the child in his care.

Leah also claimed to have not received any leniency for her upcoming case by testifying in Bowie's trial and said the subject never came up.

"At the end of the day, I can't assume what will happen," Leah said. "I'm just gonna deal with whatever I get."

Latin Kings connection alleged​

Holt dug into Leah's history, asking about her previous living arrangement with her sister, Sarah, in New Oxford.

Leah agreed she was under scrutiny from CYS because of allegations from Sarah's children that she hit Dante. Leah then packed up and moved to York County in June 2018 without telling anyone.

When Leah and Dante arrived in York County, she connected with a woman she only identified as "Alysha," who got her connected with Hector Rivera, better known as "Holiday," a member of the Latin Kings, according to Leah and Holt.

According to her testimony, Leah and Holiday were romantically involved "on and off" from when she moved to York County until the end of August. She said she and Dante were living on South Street at Holiday's mother's home until they were "kicked out."

According to testimony, after losing their housing, through Latin King connections, Leah and Dante were connected with another member named "Ghost," who set up a sleeping arrangement at his mother's house where Dante would be inside while Leah would stay the night in her immobile car that had a flat tire.

After a time, she said, the two moved out of the home and were set up in hotel rooms for two nights by different men. Then Bowie connected with Mullinix and set them up at the apartment where he was staying.

When Bowie was leaving his apartment to stay with a friend in North York, he gave the two $90 for a hotel as he could not take them with him, she said.

Leah said she did not go to a hotel that evening as her wallet had been stolen in the summer and she needed identification to get a hotel room. Instead she bought food.

Bowie then got the Mullinixes set up at an abuse shelter, citing a previously abusive relationship Leah had been in, making the call and putting her on the phone.

From there, during the first night at the shelter, York CYS got involved as Dante was screaming and crying all night in the shelter. Leah said it was because of the infection on his penis. Child services scheduled an appointment to have Dante examined, which led to the full body images taken that have been used in the trial to document a lack of visible bruises leading up to Sept. 6 and Dante's hospitalization.

Holt then introduced Leah's day planner, in which she had budgets written out for different needs and pamphlets about anger management from Adam County CYS.

Leah also testified she had returned to Ghost's mother's apartment, where she left the boy for an afternoon. She could not recall where she went that day.

Leah denied seeing Holiday that week, but said a large clump of hair missing on Dante's head was from his razor. She said after she and Holiday split at the end of August he had left a bucket of hair-cutting materials in her car as he worked as a barber and cosmetologist.

Leah could not answer why Dante would be in her then-disabled car during the first week of August where he could access Holiday's hair-cutting materials.

'He's just acting like a little b----'​

Additionally, Holt brought up evidence that in Facebook messages to her sister after Dante had been admitted to the hospital, Leah said providing Bowie had not injured him "if that bruise came from anyone it would be Holiday."

“I don’t even remember what started that conversation,” Leah said in response.

Leah said Holiday had caused bruising to the boy in the past, saying when she was in a relationship with him he would take Dante out with his Latin Kings friends and their kids.

Holt also asked Leah about foul language she would use about her son, citing messages where she referred to him with vulgar language. She agreed she may have said things like the messages Holt pulled up.

He asked about Bowie's account that on Sept. 6 he had noted to Leah that Dante's eyes were rolling into the back of his head, but she said "he's just acting like a little b---- because of the infection."

Leah claimed to not remember any of that.

Tyree Bowie trial: Mother of Dante Mullinix testifies, claiming no fault in his death

The eighth day of the trial of Tyree Bowie for the alleged 2018 murder of 2-year-old Dante Mullinix brought the toddler's mother Leah to testify.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Jurors in York County Court deliberated for about two hours Friday before acquitting 43-year-old Tyree Bowie of first- and third-degree murder as well as child endangerment in the September 2018 death of 2-year-old Dante Mullinix.

Bowie had been caring for Mullinix while the boy's mother was in the hospital. Authorities said he brought the unresponsive boy to the same hospital that day and then fled, telling authorities the next day that he had fed the boy some animal crackers and later noticed he wasn't breathing, Mullinix died eight days later.

An autopsy determined that the child died from traumatic brain injury, accompanied by strangulation and suffocation. His death was ruled a homicide.

Bowie, released from York County prison after the verdict, visited the child's grave Monday in Mount Rose Cemetery in Spring Garden Township with more than a dozen friends and supporters.

"It's just, like, emotions are just too through the roof right now," Bowie said as he stood at the little boy's marker. "... It's a lot. I miss him, being around him, the hugs, the kisses. It's a lot."

Pennsylvania man acquitted of murder, endangering in 2018 death of 2 year-old boy

A Pennsylvania man has been acquitted in the death of a friend's toddler son more than four years ago.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Two and a half weeks after a York County jury acquitted her former boyfriend in the murder of her 2-year-old son, Leah Mullinix pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to a charge of child endangerment in Dante Mullinix’s death.

Mullinix, 26, entered what’s called an open plea to the single charge, a third-degree felony, and faces a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison.

Mullinix did not describe her actions in court, instead answering questions from York County Common Pleas Court Judge Amber Kraft with simple “yes” or “no” answers. When asked whether, between Aug. 28, 2018, and Sept. 6, 2018, the date her son died, she “knowingly endangered (her son’s) welfare and violated” her duty to care for him, she answered yes.

After entering the plea, she left the courtroom, and the courthouse, accompanied by sheriff’s deputies, for her own protection. Members of her family, including her sister who has crusaded for justice for Dante, and her former boyfriend, Tyree Bowie, were present in court when she entered her plea.

Mullinix’s sister, Sarah Mullinix, Dante’s aunt who was trying to get custody of her nephew at the time of his death, said, “At least she’s owning up to it, well, part of it.”

Bowie’s attorney, Farley Holt, suggested that the abuse that led to Dante’s death had been inflicted by Mullinix and that the case was “about Leah,” that she should have been charged with more serious offenses, including assault and attempted homicide.

Holt also alleged that testimony during Bowie’s trial indicated that another one of her former boyfriends, Hector “Holiday” Rivera, should have faced charges in the case, that Mullinix told Bowie about Rivera’s abuse of the boy, which included giving the child herpes. Rivera, an alleged member of the Latin Kings gang, has not been charged in the case and is believed to have gone to Florida after Dante’s death, Sarah Mullinix said.

“She’s still blaming others,” Holt said. “This poor kid still isn’t going to get justice.”

Mother pleads guilty to child endangerment in death of Dante Mullinix

Two and a half weeks after her former boyfriend was acquitted on murder charges, Leah Mullinix pleads guilty to child endangerment in her son's death.

www.yahoo.com

 

[HEREIBE22]

It's not right! She should be charged with murder!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Mullinix, 26, entered what’s called an open plea to the single charge, a third-degree felony, and faces a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison.

She deserves much longer. I hope everyday of her sentence is miserable.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Tyree Bowie, who was also in court during the hearing, said he was never offered a plea during the time he spent in the county prison awaiting trial. "It's not fair that I lost four years of my life for something I didn't do, and she gets to take a plea. It's not right," Bowie said.

MSN

The prosecution was probably concerned she would be acquitted too.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Dante Mullinix's mother will serve five years probation after pleading guilty to an accusation that she failed to seek medical treatment for her 2-year-old son and had left him in the care of a boyfriend the night he died.

York County Judge Amber Kraft handed down the sentence Monday after Leah Mullinix, 26, had entered an open guilty plea to felony endangering the welfare of a child in January.

Dante died on Sept. 6, 2018, and police had charged her boyfriend, Tyree Bowie, in his death. Bowie had been accused of beating Dante the night Leah Mullinix left her son in his care. Bowie maintained his innocence, and after spending four years in jail awaiting trial, he was acquitted of the charges last December after a month-long trial.

After entering her guilty plea on Jan. 18, Leah Mullinix underwent a psychiatric examination and a substance abuse evaluation.

As a condition of her probation, she is forbidden from having unsupervised contact with minors and must comply with any requirements placed on her by the county's Children, Youth and Family agency.

Dante Mullinix's mother sentenced to probation on charge related to his death

Leah Mullinix had been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Satanica]

No justice.

 

[Future_Milf]

Life sentence just for giving the poor kid that trash name. I'm glad her ex cellmate posted. Disgusting about the STD.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I did not think I could hate this bio-unit anymore than I already did