Reality sets in for Cleveland mother after boyfriend pleads guilty in death of her son

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A person pleaded responsible to prices associated to the dying of his girlfriend’s little one.

19 Investigates discovered that in line with police, he initially tried to cowl up the crime, however the boy’s post-mortem revealed the reality.

Investigator Hannah Catlett adopted up with the 2-year-old’s mom in what turned out to be a heartbreaking interview.

Final Summer season, Amanda Thadeus was virtually in denial that her boyfriend may have brought on her son’s dying, despite the fact that police had already arrested him for it.

Now that he’s taken a plea deal, actuality has set in.

Thadeus sat subsequent to a teddy bear stuffed together with her son’s ashes as she informed his story.

“My head actually spun, and I busted out in tears,” she mentioned.

Her son, Ryan, was simply 2 years previous final summer season when he died.

“It simply damage actually unhealthy,” Thadeus mentioned.

Thadeus’s boyfriend, Ronald Hicks Jr., was watching Ryan whereas Thadeus was at work.

Police say when Hicks informed them he discovered Ryan unresponsive with a plastic bag over his head, saying the youngsters have been know to play like that previously.

Nevertheless, we found that Ryan’s post-mortem revealed his true reason for dying.

“A reason for dying, blunt pressure impacts to go and neck with mind and neck accidents,” Thadeus learn from the dying certificates; a discovering that doesn’t align with Hicks’s story that the bag is what damage Ryan.

“That’s how like everybody discovered that the suffocation was truly a canopy up,” she mentioned.

We could by no means know what really occurred, how precisely Ryan bought damage, however Hicks lately pleaded responsible to involuntary manslaughter within the case.

“I actually was making an attempt to hope he didn’t do it,” Thadeus mentioned. “However I knew part of me actually thought he did.”

In Thadeus’ lap as she spoke to us, she says, was Hick’s 3-month-old daughter.

Thadeus says she was pregnant with Mavis when bullets got here flying into her home on West thirty ninth Road.

“Seven bullets went via the wall,” she mentioned.

She believes the shooter could have been making an attempt to intimidate her as Hicks’ case moved via the justice system.

“Sure, we known as the police,” she mentioned.

Thadeus says Mavis will seemingly see her dad for the primary time at his sentencing subsequent week.

“That’s one other factor that makes it actually exhausting as a result of I needed him to be there together with her. I needed her to know her dad. And it it hurts. It actually does to know that he’s locked up and he gained’t get to be part of her life,” Thadeus mentioned.

That will probably be an enduring problem, as Mavis additionally grows up with out her massive brother and begins asking questions on him.

“I preserve [the teddy bear] within the bassinet close to his sister. So, she’s together with her brother always,” Thadeus mentioned.

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