Mother, boyfriend charged with killing Maywood toddler | WGN-TV

A judge denied bail for the Maywood mother accused of beating her baby to death on Saturday, but originally telling police she and her son were the victims of an abduction. Lakeshia Baker and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Michael Scott made their first appearance in court today. The details of the crime were so disturbing Cook County State?s Attorney Anita Alvarez attending today?s hearing.

Michael Scott and Lakeshia Baker

?This case strikes us as particularly heinous for a number of reasons,? said Alvarez.

In court, both defendants stood side by side, each charged with first degree murder in the alleged beating death of Baker?s one year old son, Bryeon Hunter.

?We don?t know how long the baby had been beaten but based on what we were told the child had been beaten continuously,?? said Alvarez.

Though first concocting an abduction story for police, which lead to an Amber Alert being issued on Tuesday, prosecutors say Baker later admitted to beating her son repeatedly with a belt, and making him sit for hours on the toilet as punishment. Scott told investigators that his girlfriend is the one who beat her son to death, leaving him to die on the bathroom floor.? Prosecutors say both admitted to stuffing the boy?s body into a backpack to dispose of it near the Des Plaines River in Maywood, then calling police to report a false kidnapping and beating by three men. Baker went so far as to tell her story to reporters, while the Amber Alert was still active.

?I think it?s horrific, we?re talking about a 20 month old child and to be continuously beaten and left on the toilet- you can just imagine what the child has gone through. As a mother, it really hits you, that a mother could do this to their own child and then getting the police involved in an Amber Alert, knowing full well that the child was already dead,? said Alvarez.

Maywood police chief Tim Curry said the story quickly unraveled as the truth came out, ?due to the description of the subjects that she decribed, they were not a part of this event and we had concern with that.?

Though neither family wanted to talk on camera, Lakeshia Baker?s attorney, Irv Frazin said his client was not guilty, ?she has been under the thumb of this fellow, this co-defendant for a long time, and this is a classic case of abuse.?? She has been abused regularly by this person, hospitalized and I think all of that will come out later,? said Frazin.

Meanwhile, crews continue to search the Maywood area for Bryeon?s body.

Both Baker and Scott are due back in court on Tuesday.

Source: http://wgntv.com/2013/04/21/mother-boyfriend-charged-with-killing-maywood-toddler/

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