Sentenced: Wichita Mom Gets 20 Years In Toddler's Death

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Two parents have been charged in connection to the October 2023 death of a one-year-old child.

Brijin McCullough, 31, and Wilma Presley, 36, were both charged with first-degree murder and aggravated endangerment of a child on Monday. McCullough has also been charged with two additional counts of aggravated endangerment of a child.

On October 31, 2023, emergency crews responded to the Walmart where a woman reported her one-year-old son was unresponsive. EMS took the child to a Wichita hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

Parents charged with murder in connection to death of a Wichita toddler

Brijin McCullough, 31, and Wilma Presley, 36, were both charged with first-degree murder and aggravated endangerment of a child in connection to the October 2023 death of a one-year-old child.

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District Judge Jeffrey Goering sentenced 36-year-old Wilma Presley to 240 months in prison with 36 months post release.

Presley pled guilty to distributing a controlled substance causing death and aggravated endangering a child along with drug crimes on July 12.

Presley and 32-year-old Brijin McCullough were both charged with first-degree murder and aggravated endangerment of a child earlier this year.

McCullough was convicted in July of second-degree murder and three counts of child endangerment.

Wichita mom gets 20 years in toddler's death

District Judge Jeffrey Goering sentenced 36-year-old Wilma Presley to 240 months in prison with 36 months post release.

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Days after a Wichita mother was sent to prison over her infant son’s fentanyl poisoning last Halloween, the baby’s father has also been sentenced. Prosecutors say he was in a car with the baby, dealing drugs, when the boy was fatally exposed.

Brijin M. McCullough will spend 36 1/2 years in prison on a bevy of charges in four cases, all involving drugs to some degree. He was sentenced for second-degree reckless murder and other charges on Friday, two days after Sedgwick County District Judge Jeffrey Goering ordered 1-year-old Kaiden McCullough’s mom, Wilma Faye Presley, to serve 20 years. The two cases she was sentenced on Wednesday also both involved drugs.

Prosecutors say McCullough, 32, had a history of dealing and possessing drugs that continued even after his son died, including making several phone calls from jail after his arrest where he arranged with Presley, 36, to continue his drug business. Both were charged in separate cases for that conspiracy.

Kaiden turned 1 just two weeks before he died last Halloween after being exposed to fentanyl. His family noticed he was lifeless and his lips had turned blue around 10 p.m. during a Walmart shopping trip for more candy after the baby’s siblings went trick-or-treating. The baby was taken by ambulance from the store, 501 E. Pawnee, to a Wichita hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His autopsy report says he died from lethal levels of fentanyl.

His parents arrived at the store in separate vehicles that night and told authorities they thought the baby was just sleeping. Before going to the store, Kaiden rode in his father’s car. Presley told police she saw McCullough “conducting a drug transaction” at a QuikTrip sometime before the Walmart trip.

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MCCULLOUGH, BRIJIN M


Earliest Possible Release Date (1) Jun 26, 2056


Current Status Incarcerated


Admission Date Oct 23, 2024

Sedgwick	23CR300346	Nov 15, 2022	Sep 13, 2024	N/A	Poss of opiates,opium, narc drugs or desig stim	1	Drug-grid Severity Level 5	Active	KS
Sedgwick	24CR440	Oct 31, 2023	Sep 13, 2024	N/A	Murder in the 2nd Degree (Reckless)	1	Non Drug-Grid Severity Level 2	Active	KS
Sedgwick	24CR440	Oct 31, 2023	Sep 13, 2024	N/A	Endangering Child LT18	1	Class A Misdemeanor	Active	KS
Sedgwick	24CR440	Oct 31, 2023	Sep 13, 2024	N/A	Endangering Child LT18	1	Class A Misdemeanor	Active	KS
Sedgwick	24CR440	Oct 31, 2023	Sep 13, 2024	N/A	Endangering Child LT18	1	Class A Misdemeanor	Active	KS

PRESLEY, WILMA FAYE


Earliest Possible Release Date (1) Apr 27, 2041


Current Status Incarcerated


Admission Date Oct 08, 2024

Sedgwick	24CR441	Oct 31, 2023	Sep 11, 2024	N/A	Dist. controlled sub. resulting in death	1	Non Drug-Grid Severity Level 1	Active	KS
Sedgwick	24CR441	Oct 31, 2023	Sep 11, 2024	N/A	Agg endangering a child; LT18 reckless	1	Non Drug-Grid Severity Level 9	Active	KS

 

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