A woman charged in connection with the death of her 8-year-old son, whose skeletal remains decomposed for months inside a Houston-area apartment with three surviving but abandoned siblings, continued to receive government assistance on his behalf even after he was allegedly beaten to death by her boyfriend, a prosecutor said Friday.
Gloria Y. Williams, 35, remains jailed after being charged with felony injury to a child by omission, injury to a child and tampering with evidence . Her boyfriend, Brian W. Coulter, 31, has been charged with murder and also remains jailed.
Authorities allege Coulter beat Kendrick to death in front of two of the child's siblings sometime around Thanksgiving last year. Kendrick's three surviving brothers, ages 7, 10 and 15, were left to fend for themselves in the apartment that had no furniture and became infested with roaches and flies after Williams and Coulter moved out in March, authorities allege.
Authorities allege Coulter also punched the 10-year-old child in the jaw a few weeks before the body was discovered and that neither he nor Williams got the child any sort of medical care.
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