JAYMEON WYATT - 21 Months - (2010) Chicago/South side IL

A 22-year-old South Side woman was charged Monday with murder in
connection with the death of her 21-month-old son, who died Sunday after
being battered.


Doulesha Wyatt, of the 100 block of East 49th Street, is charged
with first-degree murder in the death of Jaymeon Wyatt, according to
police. She will appear in bond court on Tuesday.The toddler was taken to the University of Chicago Comer Children's
Hospital on Saturday after suffering numerous injuries, police said. An
investigation revealed the child had been battered. Jaymeon was
pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m. Sunday after suffering a head injury at his
home, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. An
autopsy on Monday found Jaymeon suffered cranio-cerebral injuries, blunt
head trauma and child abuse and his death was ruled a homicide,
according to the medical examiner’s office. The baby’s death is
thought to be a result of child abuse, police said.The Illinois
Department of Children and Family Services is investigating an
allegation of abuse, spokesman Kendall Marlowe said.The
department has had prior contact with the family and has taken custody
of two other children in the home, Marlowe said.Wentworth Area
detectives are investigating.

No bail for woman accused in son's beating death
July 20, 2010 2:30 PM
A Bronzeville woman accused of murder in the death of her toddler son told police she had been drinking when she swung him in the air and lost her grip, causing him to hit his head on a radiator, a prosecutor said in court today.

A judge ordered Doulesha Wyatt, 22, held without bail this afternoon at a bond hearing. Authorities have charged her with the death of her 21-month-old son Jaymeon, who died Sunday afternoon at Comer Children's Hospital.

Police said Jaymeon's head injuries were consistent with a beating, and an autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner's office concluded that he died of head and brain injuries due to blunt head trauma.


Wyatt sobbed uncontrollably through her hearing today before Judge James Brown as a prosecutor outlined the allegations against her.

Her husband had gone to work early Saturday, leaving her to care for Jaymeon and her two other young children by herself, said Assistant State's Atty. Laura Ayala-Gonzalez. At some point in the morning, Wyatt went to a liquor store and returned with beer and vodka, which she drank at home, the prosecutor said.

At about 11:30 a.m., she was playing with Jaymeon, raising him up in her arms and swinging him "in a circle" in the air, Ayala-Gonzalez said. Wyatt told police in a videotaped confession that she got dizzy and lost her grip on the boy.


According to her account, he flew across the room and hit his head on a radiator, the prosecutor said, and afterward, when he wouldn't stop crying, Wyatt hit him several times on the back of the head. When the boy's breath became shallow, she shook him violently, Ayala-Gonzalez said.

Jaymeon lost consciousness, and when Wyatt could not revive him, she alerted a neighbor. The boy died at the hospital a day later.

Wyatt's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender K.S. Galhotra, told Brown he believed his client's husband was abusive.

In response to the judge's question about the taped confession, Galhotra said: "Well, judge, there are such things in the this world as false confessions."

Outside the courtroom a group of Wyatt's relatives asserted her innocence.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which is also investigating Jaymeon's death, had previously received two allegations of neglect involving the woman's three children in May.

One of those allegations was found to be credible, according to a DCFS spokesman who said the family was referred for "services." It was unclear what that entailed.

DCFS has taken custody of the woman's two other children in the home as part of the probe of the Jaymeon's death.


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Woman sentenced to 6 years in death of 21-month-old son
BY SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE April 13, 2012 7:34PM
Updated: April 14, 2012 12:41AM

A Chicago woman convicted of murdering her young son was sentenced to more than six years in prison Friday.

Doulesha Wyatt was charged with murder in July 2010 for the death of her 21-month-old son, Jaymeon Wyatt, who was battered and suffered numerous injuries, police said.

Wyatt was convicted of the murder in March, and on Friday Judge Vincent M. Gaughan sentenced her to 79 months in prison, according to Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokesman Andrew Conklin.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services had prior contact with the family before the toddler’s death, spokesman Kendall Marlowe said in 2010. DCFS initially took two other children into their custody.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/11887835-418/story.html#.U3anDfldVQE