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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>M</strong><strong>other is sentenced to 35 years for beating her one-year-old son to death and dumping his body in river before pretending he&#8217;d been kidnapped</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Lakeshia Baker, 27, pleaded guilty to murder on Thursday in connection to the April 2013 slaying of Bryeon Hunter</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Criminal case against her boyfriend and accused accomplice Michael Scott, 26, is still pending </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Couple were accused of beating Bryeon to death with a belt and plastic hangers and throwing his body into the Des Plaines river in Illinois </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Baker then went to the police and the media claiming Bryeon had been kidnapped by three Hispanic men, who also beat her</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292416" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lakeshia-Baker-left-and-her-son-Bryeon-Hunter-right-1.png" alt="Lakeshia Baker [left], and her son Bryeon Hunter [right] 1" width="697" height="538" /> Lakeshia Baker [left], was sentenced to 35 years after pleading guilty to murder on Thursday in connection to the April 2013 murder of her son, Bryeon Hunter [right]</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">An Illinois mother has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for beating her one-year-old son to death with a belt and coat hangers, and throwing his body into a river before faking a kidnapping.<br />
Lakeshia Baker, 27, was sentenced after pleading guilty to murder on Thursday in connection to the April 2013 slaying of Bryeon Hunter, <a class="class" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-mother-pleads-guilty-20180503-story.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Chicago Tribune. </a><br />
Prosecutors alleged that Baker and her then-boyfriend, Michael Scott, beat the little boy with a belt and plastic hangers, leaving him to die on the bathroom floor inside their Maywood, Illinois, home on April 15, 2013.<br />
Now aged 26, Scott was similarly charged with murder after prosecutors<br />
When they realized the child had died, they took the body to the river and faked a kidnapping to cover it up, prosecutors said.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292419" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bryeon-Hunters-decomposed-body-was-fished-out-of-the-Des-Plaines-river-in-Illinois-in-May-2013.png" alt="Bryeon Hunter's decomposed body was fished out of the Des Plaines river in Illinois in May 2013.PNG" width="682" height="494" />Bryeon Hunter&#8217;s decomposed body was fished out of the Des Plaines river in Illinois in May 2013</strong></h6>
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<p class="imageCaption">The toddler&#8217;s decomposed body was fished out of the Des Plaines river in Illinois in May 2013, a month after he was beaten to death .</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Scott it is alleged, covered the child&#8217;s mouth so that his grandmother would not hear the baby scream or cry.<br />
When the couple realized Bryeon was dead, they stuffed his body into a backpack, drove to the Des Plaines river and threw it in the water.<br />
Baker then went to the police, claiming that her son had been abducted. She even made her four-year-old son practice their cover-up story over and over in case he was questioned.<br />
Baker claimed Bryeon was snatched from her on their way to a McDonald&#8217;s, telling reporters that she and her son were attacked and beaten by three Hispanic men.<img class=" size-full wp-image-292415 alignright" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Michael-Smith-Lakeshia-Bakers-boyfriend-1.png" alt="Michael Smith, Lakeshia Baker's boyfriend 1.PNG" width="307" height="341" /><br />
Baker&#8217;s boyfriend, 26-year-old Michael Scott, [photo, right], has been charged with murder and the case against him is still pending. She even picked three out in a police mug book.<br />
&#8216;They pulled up out of the alleyway and told me, &#8216;Didn&#8217;t we say we didn&#8217;t want to see you here no more?&#8217; They pulled down my hair and pulled me in the car and started beating me and all I heard was my baby just screaming,&#8217; Baker told the local TV station at the time.<br />
She even appeared in news reports with a swollen eye.<br />
The report of the kidnapping prompted an Amber Alert and set off a search of abandoned buildings, trash bins and industrial areas by authorities and volunteers.<br />
Canine units were brought in, and a search of the Des Plaines River was carried out with divers and sonar equipment.<br />
Under questioning, Baker ultimately admitted that the kidnapping story was a lie and that she and Scott had beaten her son so severely that he died.<br />
A month after the child&#8217;s killing, a kayaker found Bryeon’s heavily decomposed body in the Des Plaines river near Brookfield Zoo in North Riverside. It took officials months to positively identify him.<br />
Scott&#8217;s criminal case is still making its way through the court system.</p>
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