A Texas mother stood by and did nothing to protect her 8-year-old son from her boyfriend’s fatal beating and left the boy’s siblings to live with his decomposing body for a year, authorities say.
Gloria Yvette Williams, 38, pleaded guilty last week to causing serious bodily injury by omission in the death of her son Kendrick Lee. A judge found her boyfriend, 34-year-old boyfriend Brian Ward Coulter guilty of first-degree murder in April and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a five-day bench trial.
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Shocked detectives began their investigation in October 2021 when a then-15-year-old boy called 911 to say he and his siblings, then ages 7 and 10, had been living with Kendrick’s body in a west Houston home for a year. Investigators later learned that after Kendrick’s death sometime in late 2020, Coulter and Williams covered the boy’s body with a blue blanket and then moved to another apartment, leaving the kids behind. Cops arrested the pair a couple weeks after the 15-year-old’s 911 call.