JAMAR JOHNSON - 5 yo - Bronx/ NYC NY

A Bronx mom said she beat her 5-year-old son to death because he broke the television while playing Nintendo Wii, prosecutors said Monday.
Kim Crawford, 21, smacked Jamar Johnson in his back and stomach on June 13 "harder than I've ever hit him," she told cops.
Crawford watched him vomit and complain of agonizing pain for five
days as his internal injuries got worse. She never took him to the
hospital because she feared getting arrested, she told investigators."I was worried they'd see the bruises and I'd get in trouble," she told cops.
Jamar died of an infection to his lacerated pancreas and intestine at Montefiore Medical Center late Friday.
Prosecutors charged Crawford with murder and manslaughter. She was ordered held without bond Monday.
"I can't believe this," Jamar's dad said outside court.
The petite single mom told cops several different stories about how
Jamar was injured before finally admitting the truth, prosecutors said.
First, she claimed he simply got sick, went to sleep and never woke
up, prosecutors said. She then claimed he fell while playing in the park
and injured himself.
After hours of questioning, she finally admitted becoming enraged at
Jamar when he told her he broke the television, prosecutors said.
"I hit Jamar twice in the back and twice in the stomach," she told cops.
On Friday night Crawford "held Jamar's hand and it was cold," she told cops. "He wasn't moving."
Crawford's lawyer, Camille Abate, said the mom should not have been charged with murder.
"The facts do not establish at all that this mother tried to kill her
child," Abate said. "I have no idea whether hitting someone with their
hand causes these kinds of injuries. It's clear that for two days she
was worked over by police."
Jamar's heartbroken family called his death "inexcusable."
"Whether or not she did it on purpose doesn't matter, because my
beautiful grandson is gone and he's not coming back," said Jamar's
grandmother, Betsy Johnson. "It's a tragedy. It's inexcusable."
Crawford has previous arrests for drugs and assault, police sources
said, and a long history of domestic incidents with the boy's father.
Police were called for domestic incidents between the pair nine times
since 2006, sources said. Crawford had an open warrant for violating
probation at the time of her arrest.
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