Texas mom admits to leaving three kids in 'horrible' home with their dead  brother's decomposing body

A Texas parent has pleaded blameworthy to charges related to her eight-year-old son's decease and abandoning her 3 different children successful a horrible location with their dormant brother's decomposing body.

Gloria Williams, 38, pleaded blameworthy past week to 2 charges of wounded to a kid successful narration to her autistic lad Kendrick Lee's decease successful 2020.

She was accused of knowing that her boyfriend, Brian Coulter, had been beating her children and failing to intervene. 

The mother-of-four was besides accused of tampering with grounds arsenic she kept his decomposing assemblage nether a broad successful an flat with her 3 different sons, Click 2 Houston reports. 

Her blameworthy plea comes conscionable months aft Coulter, 34, was sentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole for the young boy's death.

Prosecutors person said that Coulter punched and kicked Kendrick to decease astir Thanksgiving Day 2020, and Williams refused to study him to the police, claiming she was acrophobic her children would beryllium taken distant and she would extremity up successful jail.

Months later, successful March 2021, Williams and Coulter moved retired of the apartment, but near Kendrick's assemblage nether a bluish broad and Williams' 3 surviving sons, then aged 7, 10 and 15, wrong a chamber beside the corpse of their brother.

They did not person beds to slumber on, arsenic roaches climbed everywhere, ABC 13 reports.

Williams and Coulter would past instrumentality to the flat each fewer weeks to driblet disconnected immoderate nutrient for the children, but they aboriginal claimed Coulter would besides bushed them during those visits.

By September oregon October 2021, the energy to the flat was besides chopped off.

But connected October 24, 2021, Williams' teenage lad was capable to telephone 911 to study that his member had been dormant successful their flat for much than a year.

Deputies recovered the boys the 3 boys each malnourished, and the 10-year-old with a swollen jaw.

The boys past told investigators how Coulter struck the eight-year-old with closed fists and kicked him successful his face, feet, back, testicles and buttocks.

Williams' 7-year-old lad besides told deputies Coulter continued kicking Kendrick, who was lying connected the level and not moving, portion staring astatine the younger member who was successful the room.

After Kendrick's eyes turned achromatic and helium stopped blinking, Coulter covered him with a bluish blanket, the kid told deputies.

When Williams past entered the chamber to cheque connected her lad and saw that helium was dead, she began crying and warring with Coulter, her 15-year-old lad said.

He told investigators helium believed his parent would telephone the constabulary connected Coulter, but 'she ne'er did.' She past moved retired of the apartment, leaving her surviving children with their brother's rotting corpse and without immoderate big supervision.

William's 10-year-old lad told investigators that erstwhile Williams came by the flat astatine a aboriginal day and lifted the broad disconnected of Kendrick, she recovered that 'his body, feet and teeth had turned into a skeleton,' and that 'his hairsbreadth was off.' His decomposing corpse was said to person been covered with cockroaches.

The 10-year-old besides claimed that Coulter would bushed him arsenic well, hitting him connected the face, stomach, buttocks and legs, and broke his jaw 3 weeks ago.

When constabulary arrived astatine the flat connected Sunday, they recovered the kid with a swollen jaw. At the infirmary the pursuing day, the lad said that his parent 'was alert of the wounded but did not question oregon get aesculapian assistance for him,' the authoritative said.   

Coulter and Williams were yet arrested 2 days aboriginal extracurricular a room wherever sources said they were searching for quality articles astir the case.

At a property league announcing the charges against the couple, Lt. Dennis Wilford described Coulter arsenic 'manipulative' but said Williams should inactive instrumentality blasted for her son's death.

'I would accidental they are some an abuser,' helium claimed. 'He's an abuser physically and she's an abuser by omission.'

But Coulter aboriginal pleaded not blameworthy to superior execution charges, and faced a five-day-long seat proceedings successful April.

Over the people of the week, the surviving boys repeated their claims astir what happened, and prosecutors revealed substance messages betwixt Coulter and Williams pursuing the boy's death.

In one, Williams told Coulter that Kendrick had feces connected him and wasn't moving. She went connected to accidental her lad 'looked dead,' and asked her fellow to cleanable it up, according to ABC 13.

Other substance messages showed Coulter told Williams 'it was successful God's hands' and 'not to worry.'

Crime country photos displayed successful tribunal besides showed the 10-year-old with a swollen jaw, for which helium needed surgery. 

Houston justice Kelli Johnson said the lawsuit was the 'most horrific acceptable of facts that I've ever had to witness, to perceive to and image' successful her vocation arsenic she sentenced Coulter to beingness successful situation successful April.

'I deliberation astir what his kids went through,' she said earlier handing down the sentence, according to Click 2 Houston. 

'I deliberation astir each 3 of them and their injuries. I deliberation astir however you tin look astatine each and each 1 of them and deed them successful the face. So overmuch truthful that successful the end, 1 had to person surgery. 

'And I anticipation they, each 3 of them remaining volition spell connected and unrecorded a very, precise healthy, blessed life,' the justice said, noting that she was gladsome the boys seemed to beryllium successful the attraction of a loving family.

'Now you volition permission this court, but you volition not permission my mind,' she continued telling Coulter.

'And I hope, sir, erstwhile you’re successful prison, I anticipation those aforesaid boys that person haunted my caput haunt yours.'

Williams is present acceptable to look her ain sentencing proceeding connected November 11.