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he mother of a 4-year-old who died of blunt force trauma in March 2018 is scheduled to go on trial in connection with the death later this month.

Khadijah Wright, 26, is charged with injury to a child by omission resulting in the death of D’Money Lewis.

D’Money’s father, Benearl Lewis, is currently serving a life sentence in Texas for beating the boy to death. Wright is accused of violating a Child Protective Services care plan which provided that she would not leave her children alone with Lewis or allow him to spend the night in her home when the children were there.

Wright allegedly lied to investigators about how D’Money suffered catastrophic brain injuries and damage to his internal organs. Wright and Benearl Lewis allegedly told investigators the boy fell from a chest freezer in the family’s Texarkana, Texas, home, an account which experts testified was unlikely at Benearl Lewis’ trial last year.
Wright appeared Wednesday with Dallas attorney Jasmine Crockett for a final pretrial hearing before 5th District Judge Bill Miller. Jury selection is scheduled for June 25 at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston, Texas.

First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp said the state’s only outstanding concern relates to reports from defense experts who have evaluated Wright. In April, the court granted a defense motion for a state-funded evaluation of Wright. Crisp said the state has still not received the report and intends to have its own expert evaluate Wright next week.
Benearl Jermane Lewis, 24, was not supposed to be alone with his son, D'Money Lewis, or D'Money's 6-year-old brother, according to a probable-cause affidavit used to create the following account. D'Money's brother has the same mother, but a different father, and is not being identified because of his age.

"Our investigation has revealed D'Money and his 6-year-old brother were in the care, custody and control of Benearl Jermane Lewis while the mother was at work, which violates a CPS (Child Protective Services) safety plan that was already in effect from a prior incident, and there were no other persons in the home during the time period D'Money's injuries were sustained,

D'Money was taken to Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana via ambulance while in cardiac arrest. Aultman's report states he observed a large area of bruising on the boy's back and "strap" marks on D'Money's legs and back. Staff at Wadley told Aultman the boy was suffering from bleeding in the brain and bruising to his back and chest "as if he had been kicked."

After initial treatment at Wadley, D'Money was taken to Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. Medical staff there told investigators that the boy's injuries were inconsistent with the account allegedly provided by his parents and more likely the result of abuse.

Lewis and the boy's mother, Khadijah Wright, allegedly told investigators that D'Money had "jumped or fallen from a deep freezer and that his eyes rolled back in his head," the affidavit states. Lewis allegedly claimed that after determining the child wasn't breathing, he and Wright decided to take the boy to the hospital in their car.

Following D'Money's death March 8, his body was taken to Dallas for an autopsy. Among the damage documented to the child's body was a "space occupying subdural hematoma" that had caused the youngster's brain to "herniate down into his spine," the affidavit states.
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I met Anfernee the other day. I can only think that sounds like Anthony.

As for these assholes, both of them, mom and dad, burn them both, she knew what those babies were in for when she left them and he did his part in killing little D'Money.
 
D'Victim.

Benearl
Khadijah
Ghidora
Gonorrhea

These effing names have got to cease!

There needs to be a law passed that when people are going to have a child and their own first names bare no resemblance to any known first name on the planet, it should be taken immediately as it shoots out of the meat tunnel. I want a specialist there with a catcher's mitt and the doors held open, as they book it out of there with the kid. It is the only way any of these children are going to have a decent chance at life and for that matter even living!
 
I always wonder what the Medical professionals, that attended the birth of a child, think when Mom & Dad bust out these "names".
I also wonder what the medical professionals thought when the asshole busted her face:
"Wright was recovering from child birth at UAMS in Little Rock when Lewis came to visit her Jan. 2, 2014. Lewis allegedly hit Wright in the mouth with his left fist."
 
Reminds me of when my girl/boy twins were born. I was in a coma due to complications and the hospital asked my brother to name them. My brother has cognitive disabilities so I was worried when to hear their names once I had recovered. I was relieved when he said he named the girl Denise, at least that’s normal I thought. Then he said the
boys name-D’Nephew.
 
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A mother who failed to protect her child from an abusive father received a 99-year prison sentence from a Bowie County jury.

Khadijah Wright, 26, was found guilty of injury to a child by omission in the March 6, 2018, death of her 4-year-old son, D’Money Lewis. D’Money’s father, Benearl Lewis, is serving a life term for murder he received from a Bowie County jury last fall.

During testimony Wednesday and Thursday, the jury learned that Wright and Benearl Lewis had violated a Child Protective Services safety plan which forbid Benearl Lewis from being alone with the children or spending the night in the home where they slept. Witnesses testified that Wright routinely lied to child welfare workers and hid Benearl Lewis from view when they made visits to her home.

In all, witnesses said agencies in three states opened 19 abuse/neglect investigations into Wright and Benearl Lewis beginning in August 2013 when D’Money was just four months old. At that time, he was hospitalized with a subdural hematoma, or bleeding brain due to head injury. While investigators in Texarkana, Ark., suspected Benearl Lewis was to blame, they couldn’t prove it because two others had access to him during the window during which he was injured.

D’Money was brain dead, multiple organs showed signs of traumatic injury and his body was covered in bruises and linear marks such as one might expect from strikes with a belt. Wright and Benearl Lewis claimed the child fell from a 34-inch freezer.

During closing remarks First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp theorized that after returning home, Wright helped Benearl Lewis develop an explanation for D’Money’s failing health. Instead of calling for paramedics, the couple stood the dying child on the freezer and let him fall, giving their false account some truth.

“She got back to her house and she knew that baby wasn’t right. She sat there and she waited for the last breath to leave his body and he turned cold. what kind of human being can watch a baby turn cold,” Crisp asked in her closing remarks.

Crisp and Assistant District Attorney Lauren Richards argued that Wright knew the system and worked it. Instead of protecting her four children, Wright, they argued, protected Benearl Lewis.

Both prosecutors pointed to testimony from witnesses that Wright showed up to D’Money’s pre-burial viewing wearing a pair of plastic flip flops that are used immediately after a pedicure. Crisp described the foot rub, lotion, and massage chair Wright might have enjoyed shortly before walking into the room where D’Money rested lifeless in a coffin.

The prosecutors also reminded the jury that during an interview March 8, 2018, with Wake Village Police Chief Todd Aultman, Wright vowed she would never see Benearl Lewis again as she blamed him for the death of her son. On March 10, 2018, Wright was in the passenger seat as Benearl Lewis drove from the house on Redwater Road in Wake Village where D’Money suffered fatal injuries.

After Benearl Lewis was placed in cuffs and seated in the rear of a patrol car, Wright got permission to give him a kiss.

The jury rejected testimony from a psychiatrist called by Wright’s lawyer, Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, that Wright was an abused woman suffering from the effects of past trauma. A state expert, Psychologist Christine Reed of Dallas, testified that Wright was faking her symptoms and attempting to manipulate her findings.

Richards described Wright’s protestations of being an abused woman as “a show,” and wondered to the jury why anyone who has been physically abused would fail to protect their children from deadly abuse and then attempt to use such as a defense when charged in one of their deaths.

Wright will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years of her sentence.

“We can’t bring D’Money back,” Crisp said. “But we can give him some justice.”
 
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