{"id":12511,"date":"2011-06-22T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mom-beats-kid-to-death-for-breaking-tv-while-playing-a-wii-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12511-mom-beats-kid-to-death-for-breaking-tv-while-playing-a-wii-game","title":{"rendered":"Mom beats kid to death for breaking TV while playing a Wii game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year old Bronx mom has been charged with murder and manslaughter after beating her 5-year old son to death for breaking the TV while playing a Wii game.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2011\/06\/20\/2011-06-20_mother_charged_with_murder_of_her_5yearold_son_in_bronx_no_arrests_in_homicide_o.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>, Kim Crawford admits she&rsquo;d hit her kid &ldquo;harder than I&#8217;ve ever hit him&rdquo;, then left him vomiting and complaining of pain for five days because she was worried she&rsquo;d be arrested if she took him to the hospital. The boy died of an infection in his ruptured pancreas and intestines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was worried they&#8217;d see the bruises and I&#8217;d get in trouble,&#8221; she eventually confessed to investigating officers, after first telling them he&rsquo;d simply become ill, fallen asleep, and not woken up, and later claiming he&rsquo;d hurt himself on the playground.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, Crawford has a previous record for drugs and assault, as well as a long history of domestic incidents with the child&rsquo;s father.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14969-Mother-beats-5-year-old-to-death-for-breaking-TV-while-playing-Wii?p=462817#post462817\" target=\"_self\">Mother beats 5 year old to death for breaking TV while playing Wii<\/a> &lt;&lt; discuss in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young boy dies of internal injuries 5 days after incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}