P. v. Bitson CA2/1
Defendants Morgan Bitson and her boyfriend Tristian Bennett killed Bitson’s four-year-old son Major Woods. The fatal blow severed Woods’s liver in two, causing him to bleed profusely. Prior to that time, defendants inflicted many additional wounds on Woods. While in their care, Woods suffered broken ribs, burn marks, bruises, a broken arm, and the loss of vision. Defendants restricted Woods’s food, causing him to suffer from hunger and chronic stress and to lose muscle tissue. Although the evidence did not show if Bitson or Bennett inflicted the fatal blow, the overwhelming evidence demonstrated that both abused him; one or both inflicted the fatal wound; and both lied about the events causing Woods’s death.
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