‘Pregnant mom and boyfriend sexually abused toddler with object before he killed child with blow to head’
A PREGNANT mom and her boyfriend allegedly sexually abused a toddler with an object before he killed the child with a blow to the head.
A trial date has been set for Kayla Nicole Thomas, a 26-year-old mom from Virginia, following the death of her son Steve Meek II, who died in January 2019.
Thomas will face the court from January 20 to 22, 2021, while her boyfriend, McKenzie Hellman, 26, will go to trial on October 5, WDBJ reported.
Two-year-old Meek died after having a head trauma last year.
Hellman reportedly called the cops and claimed that the little boy was unresponsive after falling over.
However, forensic nurses later discovered evidence that suggested that Thomas and Hellman were sexually abusing the toddler, WSET reported.
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Police also located a second child in the home who was also reportedly being sexually abused, and Thomas was pregnant at the time of her son’s death.
Thomas is facing charges of abuse and neglect of children, possession, reproduction, distribution, solicitation, and facilitation of child pornography, production, publication, sale, financing, etc. of child pornography, forcible sodomy, and object sexual penetration.
Her boyfriend has been charged with felony murder in addition to child abuse or neglect, producing and reproducing child pornography as an accessory, object sexual penetration as an accessory, and possession of child pornography.