Elijah Lewis’ mother faces sentencing in 5-year-old’s death
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Elijah Lewis’ mother faces sentencing in 5-year-old’s death

Deputy Attorney General Bethany J. Durand testified during the hearing that Dauphinais was assaulted, starved, isolated and neglected son at the home they shared in New Hampshire in 2020 and 2021.

“He was tortured,” the prosecutor said. The autopsy said Elijah’s emaciated body weighed only 19 kilograms.

İlyas’ boyfriend at the time of his death Joseph Stapf pleaded guilty to manslaughter He was scheduled to testify against her, the Globe reported. He was sentenced to 22 to 45 years in prison.

The child’s disappearance was reported to Merrimack police on Oct. 14, 2021, prompting an intense search by authorities in at least five states and making national headlines. The search, which began when the New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth and Families reported the child missing, continued until 10 days before Elijah’s body was found.

Prosecutors said in late 2021 that the Massachusetts medical examiner’s office determined that the child’s death was caused by “violence and neglect, including facial and scalp injuries, acute fentanyl intoxication, malnutrition, and pressure ulcers.”

The indictment also alleged that on or about Oct. 14, 2021, when Elijah was reported missing, Dauphinais asked the two men to lie to child protective service workers and say the child was with them when he was not.

Dauphinais allegedly told a friend four months before Elijah’s death that he could no longer control the boy, compared him to serial killers and He wanted her to “go away”.

Dauphinais allegedly complained to a childhood friend via text message that Elijah, the fourth of her six children, had become overly rebellious, according to screenshots of the conversation previously reviewed by the Globe.

“I call him the next Ted Bundy and (Jeffrey) Dahmer,” Dauphinais wrote. “It’s very sad, but I have no connection with this child.”

“It’s getting worse and worse,” Dauphinais added.

Elijah’s father Timothy Lewis files lawsuit wrongful death lawsuit against the state child protection agency. So is her mother Harmony Montgomeryfather of Adam Montgomery prisoner This year, in 2019, a 5-year-old girl was fatally beaten to death in New Hampshire. The cases shine a frustrating light on the state’s child welfare system. fought to protect children Long before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plea agreement prohibits Dauphinais from profiting “in any way” from these crimes.

This calculation used information from previous Globe reports.

This is an evolving story.


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