3 charged with killing toddler in Florida
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Manslaughter charges have been filed against three people accused of killing a three-year-old Florida boy by wrapping him tightly in a blanket and tying the ends as a form of discipline.
Defendant Donella Trainor, a friend of the boy’s grandmother, told investigators she had disciplined her own grandchildren that way, using a technique all three adults knew as “the wrap,” Lee County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Larry King said on Wednesday.
He said she pinned the boy’s arms to his side and rolled him in a king-sized blanket.
“There were six layers of cloth over this child. The loose ends would be folded over his head and feet and tied into a knot, all in an effort to prevent the child from moving,” King said. “You could use a mummy reference.”
The boy, Michael Lee McMullen, screamed and pleaded to be released as Trainor, 45, wrapped him and put him in his crib for a nap on Saturday, the sheriff’s report said.
The boy’s grandmother, Gale Watkins, 56, and his stepfather, Douglas Garrigus, 21, checked on him at different times as he cried and struggled, the report said.
Trainor returned, found the knot loose and retied it, then put pillows around the child, the report said. She later found him unresponsive and soaked in sweat, it said.
Paramedics took him to a hospital in Fort Myers where he was declared dead. The medical examiner classified the death as a homicide. The exact cause was still pending, King said.
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