Texas mom gets 50 years for abandoning kids with dead son’s decomposing body

A Texas parent who abandoned her children successful filthy, neglected conditions with her son’s decomposing remains has been sentenced to 50 years successful prison.

Gloria Williams, 38, had been accused of leaving her kids successful a squalid, pest-infested Houston-area flat for much than a twelvemonth with the assemblage of their 8-year-old member Kendrick Lee, who was beaten to decease by her boyfriend, Brian Coulter.

The boy’s assemblage was discovered successful October 2021 successful a country Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez described arsenic seeming “too horrific to beryllium real.”

Investigators determined Coulter had beaten Kendrick to decease astir Thanksgiving 2020. Several months later, Williams and Coulter moved to an flat astir 25 miles distant and near the remaining kids to fend for themselves.

When authorities recovered Lee’s surviving brothers, they were thin, malnourished and starving. The flat was crawling with roaches and different bugs, swarming with flies and the carpets were soiled. They had been surviving successful fearfulness that Coulter, who had abused them for years, would return.

The oldest son, 15 astatine the time, overcame his fearfulness and called police. The 2 different siblings were 7 and 10 years aged erstwhile they were found. The eldest member is presently successful foster car portion the younger 2 person since been adopted, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Williams and Coulter were arrested days aft the brothers were found. They were located in a room portion speechmaking online articles astir the discovery.

Williams pleaded blameworthy successful October to 2 counts of wounded to a child. She had antecedently waived her parental rights aft her arrest.

Coulter was sentenced successful April to beingness successful situation without parole for Lee’s death.