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TO POLICE BY HIS OWN CARETAKER.
>> THE FINAL WEEKS OF 4-YEAR-OLD
MILES DOBSON'S LIFE WERE
ALLEGEDLY FILLED WITH HORRIFIC
ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND NEGLECT
ACCORDING TO A DISTURBING IT
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT.
>> IT WAS A TRAGIC DEATH OF THAT
YOUNG BOY.
HORRIFIC INJURIES SUSTAINED OVER
A PERIOD OF DAYS.
>> DOBSON HAD BEEN STAYING WITH
27-YEAR-OLD CITIZENY KING SINCE
MID-DECEMBER.
THE BOY'S FATHER LEFT DOBSON IN
HER CARE.
RESPONDING TO A 911 CALL NYPD
SAYS OFFICERS FOND THE BOY
LOCKED IN A BATHROOM AT KING'S
MANHATTAN APARTMENT UNCONSCIOUS
AND UNRESPONSIVE ON THE FLOOR.
BURNED, BATTERED ANIMAL
NOURISHED.
THE CHILD WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT
ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL.
IN THE COMPLAINT KING ADMITTED
SHY BURNED THE BOY WITH A HOT
OVEN RACK AND STRUCK HIM WITH A
BELT LEAVING SCARS AND BRUISES.
ON ONE OF THE COLDEST DAYS CAN
OF THE YEAR SHE TOLD POLICE SHE
LOCKED HIM OUT ON THE BALCONY
FOR UP TO AN HOUR WEARING ONLY A
T-SHIRT AND SHORTS.
KING WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF
FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT IS,
RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT,
ENDARRENING THE WELFARE OF A
CHILD.
HER ATTORNEY TOLD CNN "MY CLIENT
IS NOT CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE AT
THIS TIME AND SHE SELL PRESUMED
TO BE INNOCENT OF ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST HER."
>> I LOVE MY SON.
HE ALWAYS LOVED ME AND GAVE ME
KISSES.
>> MILES CASE WAS ALREADY WITH
NEW YORK'S PROTECTIVE CHILD
SERVICES.
HIS MOTHER SAYS THE CITY TOOK
HER SON AWAY FROM HER IN 2012.
SHE SAYS IT WAS DUE TO
PRESIDENTIAL REASONS.
THE BOY WAS THEN PLACED WITH HIS
FATHER OKIE WADE.
JUST DAYS AFTER HE DROPPED THE
CHILD OFF WITH KING, HE HE WAS
ARRESTED ON MONEY LANDERING
CHARGES TO WHICH HE PLED NOT
GUILTY.
NOW MANY ARE DEMANDING ANSWERS.
>> THE CITY OF NEW YORK THOUGHT
IT BEST TO PUT THE CHILD IN THE
CARE I'VE FATHER ANY KNEW WAS A
FELON INTO BILL DeBLASIO ORDERED
A FULL INVESTIGATION SNEELGS
EACH ONE OF THESE TRADITION,
IT'S OUR JOB TO TRY AND STOP AND
GOD FOR BID WHEN THEY HAPPEN, IT
IT IS OUR JOB TO LEARN FROM