Woman sentenced to 15 years in prison for filming her stepson’s death after a brutal attack on him

This Thursday, a woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the death of her stepson in Nottingham, UK. Layla Borrington, 23, filmed the last moments of three-year-old Harvey Borrington’s life after he was brutally attacked. On the recording, a child could be seen dying on the ground due to his injuries. The boy suffered a skull fracture and died two days later from a brain hemorrhage, writes a British newspaper. daily mail.

The crime is dated August 7, 2021. In the first statement, a young woman told the police that a boy with non-verbal autism had fallen from a chair and hit his head. This version was quickly debunked after an autopsy showed that the injuries on Harvey’s body could have been the result of multiple blows rather than a fall. Medical examinations also revealed old injuries such as a broken arm.

According to the English press, Layla even sent a message to her father saying “why is this happening to me?” before calling for help. As a result, the young woman sent her parent a recorded video of the injured boy on the floor.

In court, prosecutors highlighted Layla’s lack of empathy shown in the video as “very unusual behavior given the circumstances.” The woman took the boy’s hand with some indifference to the severity of his injuries.

“I can’t stop thinking [no Harvey] lying on the floor, dying, and she films him and delays medical attention. My beautiful boy could not speak, could not formulate the suffering he had to endure. He couldn’t tell me that he didn’t want to go. We only know when she abused him and then killed him during that brutal attack,” the mother of the child said in court this Thursday.

The young woman is currently under arrest for crimes such as manslaughter, assault and grievous bodily harm.