A mother allegedly beat her teenage son to death by whipping him with an extension cord because he did not finish his chores.
The 29-year-old mom called 911 on Thursday afternoon saying her 14-year-old son became unresponsive as she disciplined him in their Seattle home, police said.
She said her son made her angry by not getting his chores done and told him it was ‘butt cutting time’, wrote a police officer in a report seen by KOMO News.
The woman ‘stated she was spanking him with an extension cord, and it went too far’, according to the report.
She allegedly ordered him to take off his clothes and struck him with the cord at the residence near 4000 14th Ave South.
The mom is also accused of pushing him against a wall, causing him to hit his head and fall to the floor, and then continuing to beat him.
She ‘ordered (her son) to stand, which he complied,’ states the report. ‘(The mother) continued to beat (him) for approximately an hour.’
The mom apparently finally stopped attacking the boy when he stopped responded.
She refused to show up in court for her bail hearing on Friday.
Her attorney, Zelena Jones, asked the judge to free her from custody.
‘I know of the seriousness of these facts, but this also involves a mother losing her son and significant trauma she is experiencing from that,’ said the public defender.
‘I’d also argue there would be additional trauma on top of that if she is incarcerated.’
Jones argued that her client cooperated with law enforcement officials and has ‘very limited resources’.
Judge Jill Klinge set the woman’s bail at $3million.
The mother has not been named due to pending charges. She is expected to be charged on Tuesday.
The boy was beaten to death more than two years after an Illinois day care worker allegedly shook a seven-week-old baby to death because she would not stop crying.
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