Sentenced: Boyfriend shoved 2MO's face into bassinet until the infant stopped crying

[Sugar Cookie]

A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the death of an infant.

Dakota King, 19, is facing a murder charge in the 2-month-old child’s death.

Police were called to the IU Health Bloomington Hospital Emergency Department for an infant in very poor health. By the time the officers arrived, the child had already died.

Hospital officials told police there were inconsistencies in the statements made by family members. Injuries were visible on the child’s face.

Investigators learned the mother’s boyfriend, King, had yelled at and squeezed the baby due to crying. King allegedly previously placed the infant face-down in a bassinet and used his hand to shove the infant’s face into bedding in an attempt to stop the crying.

Police served a search warrant for a home on West Kirkwood Avenue and found a reddish-brown stain in the bassinet that appeared to be blood.

King reportedly admitted to officers that he “had gotten angry earlier in the day when the child spit up milk on his clothing.”

Bloomington police say King said he pushed the infant’s head into the pillow of the bassinet until the child stopped crying. He left the child there until the mother returned home from work later in the day and found the child wasn’t breathing.

Bloomington man arrested for murder of 2-month-old child

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the death of an infant. Dakota King, 19, is facing a murder charge in the 2-month-old child’s death.…

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[Sevens My Charm]

Editor's note: Bloomington police initially identified King as the child's father, but later issued a correction to say that he is the mother's boyfriend and not the biological father. Our story has been updated.

Of course.. why did I even have to look?!

 

[Inferus]

I would love to cave in his head so that part is permanent.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

The baby is two months old and the boyfriend of the mother. She is at work while he is home babysitting.

The math on this sucks.

 

[Bobbo]

Hopefully the fellas in prison will do the same.

 

[Moonlightsea]

Speechless. Beyond terrible.

 

[Sejanus]

Same song.
Different dancers.

 

[ghosttruck]

Pro tip... You have to smoother the kids longer for that really long nap

 

[Satanica]

Smothering longer works, too.

 

[EyEgOrE]

Say what you will about these baby killers, but they really know how to stop the crying.

I'd like to smother douche face with a concrete block.

 

[TX Leather Face]

Bury this piece of shit alive with a coffin full of spiders and non venomous snakes.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Apparently the kids crime was "spitting milk" on this duche:

https://nypost.com/2019/08/01/indiana-man-dakota-king-says-he-killed-girlfriends-baby-for-spitting-milk-on-him/

 

[Satanica]

Probably didn't burp the baby. He's 100% loser.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Satanica

He was there for the desperate pussy, the playstation and the free food not to burp no damn baby.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Babs]

Poor little baby. What kind of a monster kills a 2 mo. old baby for spitting up, as if it did it on purpose? He's a murderous DOLT.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The boy’s family later told investigators that King had yelled at the child and squeezed him to get the infant to stop crying. King then put him face-down in a bassinet and used his hand to shove the baby’s face into the bedding, investigators learned.

King later admitted to police that he became enraged earlier in the day when the boy spat milk on his clothing. He told investigators that he left the boy in the bassinet until his mother returned home from work and found that he wasn’t breathing, police said.

A reddish-brown stain was also found on the bassinet that appeared to be blood, which correlates with the visible injuries found on the child’s face at the hospital, police said.

Indiana man Dakota King says he killed girlfriend’s baby for spitting milk on him

An Indiana man admitted to killing his girlfriend’s 2-month-old baby by holding him face-down in a bassinet — because the infant spat milk on him, police said. Dakota L. King, 19, of Blooming…

nypost.com

The family members that knew he was abusing the baby should be sitting right next to him in a cell.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

On the evening of July 30, 2019, Anastasia Mosher went to a neighbor's and asked for a ride to the hospital. Something was wrong with her 2-month-old son.

She got into the backseat of the man's car. Her 19-year-old boyfriend got in the front. He was holding the baby, who was likely already dead.

The neighbor later told police he noticed while driving that the infant was silent and his skin gray. He said he heard Dakota King, who had been taking care of the baby while his girlfriend worked at Rally's that day, talking.

He said he didn't deserve to live and that if the baby's death was investigated, "they're gonna find something," a police report said.


Later that night, Bloomington Police Department Detective Kevin Frank interviewed King, who was not the child's father, at the police department.

"Through the course of the interview, Dakota admitted to placing his hands on the back of Victim #1's head, and held him down. He acknowledged that Victim # 1 was crying, and upon pushing his head into the pillow, that Victim # 1 quit crying."

Victim #1 was Braylon Elijah Lee Mosher. Born May 28, 2019, at 12:16 p.m., he weighed 7 pounds and one ounce. He died two months and two days later, "because of tragic circumstances beyond the control of his family," his obituary said.

Plea agreement would reduce charges
The day after his arrest, the Monroe County Prosecutor's Office charged King with murder, battery resulting in death and two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious injury. The next day, the prosecutor filed a petition seeking life in prison without parole if King was convicted.

Almost two years later, on April 27, 2021, a plea agreement was struck. King would plead guilty to an amended charge of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 3 felony punishable by three to 16 years in jail.

The deal dismisses the other charges, and gives King credit for the 902 days he's served at the Monroe County Jail.

And after he secures a place to live, King will spend the rest of his time not behind bars, but on house arrest.

How did this happen?​

How did a case that started with a murder charge and a possible sentence of life with no possibility for parole evolve into a case of neglect resulting in injury punished by house arrest? How did an incident where a baby spit up his formula on his caregiver end in death?

A review of online court records doesn't reveal what happened.

During a court hearing this week, Monroe Circuit Judge Valeri Haughton approved King being released from jail a third time to look for a place to live. He was released twice in December for the same purpose, with no results.

The judge authorized releasing King again, Jan. 24-26. If he doesn't find a place, his lawyer said King will begin to search outside Monroe County.

"Mr. King has looked for a place here in Monroe County but he's not having any luck," public defender Phyllis Emerick said. "I'm trying to come up with as many solutions as I can. It makes sense, for a lot of reasons, to look out of county."

She suggested that Haughton could just release King on probation since he has served more than two years in jail. The judge said she won't do that, "given the nature of the offense."

Monroe County Deputy Prosecutor Trisha Bushey told the judge that probation won't do. "I was loathe to agree to the plea," she said. Asked for details after Tuesday's hearing, Bushey said she can't discuss details of the case.

An email inquiry sent to Monroe County Prosecutor Erika Oliphant asking about the plea agreement and sentence for King was not answered by the deadline for this story.

Haughton set a Jan. 27 hearing for King to update his housing situation and complete his sentencing.

How did the charge in a Bloomington baby's death go from murder to neglect? It's not clear.

In a plea deal, Dakota King's murder charge could be reduced to neglect in 2-month-old Braylon Elijah Lee Mosher's death in 2019.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

In 2019, Dakota Lee King faced a murder charge and life in prison when a two-month-old baby died in his care.

Then a judge approved a plea agreement that reduced the charge to neglect, and said King could spend his now 9-year prison sentence on house arrest if he secured a place to live.

He couldn't find one.https://www.co.monroe.in.us/department/?structureid=104

Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Valeri Haughton released the 21-year-old Bloomington man from the Monroe County Jail three times, for a total of six days, since September to seek housing. He was unsuccessful.

"Mr. King has looked for a place here in Monroe County but he's not having any luck. I'm trying to come up with as many solutions as I can," his lawyer told Haughton during a January hearing.

This week, Haughton imposed the 9-year prison term and recommended a minimum security facility. With credit for time served, the sentence is five years and two months.

A December motion filed by defense attorney Phyllis Emerick asking that King be released to search for a place to live said her client understood if he couldn't find a home, "he would proceed to sentencing with the balance of the executed sentence to be served in the Department of Correction."

Court documents say King can't live with family members in Lawrence County because he isn't eligible for the home detention program there.

Braylon Elijah Lee Mosher was two months old when he died. His mother left him in the care of King while she worked.

The 2021 plea deal dismissed other charges filed in the case: murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death and battery resulting in death.

No one involved with the case would say what led to the most serious charges being dismissed and how life in prisongot reduced to nine years.


Investigators said King was upset the child had spit up milk that got on King's clothes. They said he forced the infant’s face down into a pillow until he stopped crying.

“He acknowledged that Victim #1 was crying and, upon pushing his head into the pillow, that Victim #1 quit crying,” the probable cause affidavit filed in the case said.

With no place to live, Bloomington man convicted in baby death heading to prison

A plea agreement allowed Dakota King to spend his 9-year sentence on house arrest, but he couldn't find a place to live.

news.yahoo.com

Thank the Lord there is no woman willing to expose her kids to this immature and murderous penis.

I also think his family members don't want his ass in their home.

 

[Satanica]

Hopefully being shunned by everyone will help make up for the lousy sentence.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Braylon Elijah Lee Mosher

 

[BBBLUE77]

Besides the fact he is a baby-murdering asswipe, let's not just smooth over the fact that 'Mom' had a boyfriend babysitting her offspring before her episiotomy even healed.

Go Mom!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

DAKOTA L KING

Earliest Possible Release Date* 05/16/2026

Date of Sentence	05/16/2022
Description	NEGLECT OF A DEPENDENT W/ SERIOUS INJURY
Term in Years / Months / Days	08​ 11​ 00019​

Projected Release Date

05/16/2026

 

[McDanel]

When you have some unemployed dick watching your child by another man, that dick doesn't see a child, he just sees your previous fuck trophy.

 

[Jellyfish Brain]

The piss poor way she put that baby in a car seat tells me she was no mother. 2 months, and already banging a new guy. Didn't even let the wound heal. She should be sitting next to that pos in prison.

Love the obit "...from circumstances out of his family's control" no, mom had complete control. She decided a warm bed with a dotm was more important than being a mother to her infant. A CARING new mother wouldn't have even had time to go searching for a relationship.

Yes, these asshole loser goof dudes kill the babies. But they wouldn't even have had access, never had the chance, if it wasn't for these desperate ass incubators too cheap to pay for proper childcare.