Charged Middletown mother says she was pressured to leave kids

Rescuers couldn’t search Ohio River on Tuesday for boy’s body.

It didn’t take long for Middletown police to determine the story Brittany Gosney and her boyfriend were telling about her 6-year-old son disappearing from the Crawford Street house Saturday night wasn’t true.

Gosney and James Hamilton made the missing child report for James Hutchinson at about 10:15 a.m. Sunday. By about 3:20 p.m., Middletown detectives and Preble County Sheriff ’s deputies were at Rush Run wildlife area off of Ohio 127. That’s were Gosney told Middletown police she hit and killed Hutchinson as he clung to her van trying to avoid being abandoned in the middle of the night.

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At a memorial Monday night, Lewis Hutchinson, James’ father, said he wants justice for his 6-year-old son.

According to the Preble County Sheriff ’s Office report, Gosney said she was being pressured by Hamilton to get rid of Hutchinson and two siblings, age 9 and