A 33-year-old Elsmere-area woman has pleaded guilty to starving her preschool son to death in 2023.
Unwilling to contact social services after losing her income, court documents say Mercedes Ferguson told New Castle County police she and her son were in her Elsmere-area apartment starving.
This went on for weeks, until the 4-year-old boy began spitting up a brown-like substance in the early hours of Aug. 18, 2023, according to court documents obtained by Delaware Online/The News Journal. The child died later that morning inside her Greenview at Chestnut Run apartment…