What kind of MONSTER would beat this ANGEL to death?
Struck on head with belt buckle Riled dad’s pal by asking for McD’s
DADDY MADE a call from jail, a call that ultimately condemned his 4-year-old son to death — a death that brought an end todays of beatings and torture. Let down by his mother, and then by his father, little Myls Dobson found himself in the care of his dad’s new girlfriend, Kryzie King, 27, in a luxury Hell’s Kitchen apartment. It was a living hell. Myls had a host of loving relatives who would have taken him in, but his father chose a woman his family barely knew, who beat the boy with a belt, making sure the buckle struck his head, police sources and Myls’ relatives said.
In the apartment in The Ritz Plaza on W. 48th St. that his father thought was so great, Myls was also whipped with a clothes hanger by King, cop sources said. On Wednesday, the last day of his tragic life, Myls asked King to go to McDonald’s. Instead, he was beaten and locked in a bathroom — a punishment that he’d endured before, along with many others that were just as evil, or perhaps even worse.
When paramedics rushed inside the apartment that day, responding to a 911 call placed by King, they found Myls unconscious, his small, battered body covered in cigarette burns, his torso and legs marred by bruises, police sources said. One of his front teeth had been knocked out. He died at a Manhattan hospital not long after his arrival.
“Why? Why? Why?” Myls’ mother, Ashlee Dobson,29, asked, when she first saw his brutalized body, according to her lawyer. “How could this happen?”
King was led out of the Midtown North stationhouse after she was charged Thursday night with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. The despondent King kept her head down and said nothing to reporters as she was dragged away in cuffs, wearing gray sweatpants and a snorkel jacket with the hood upto shield her face.
She told cops the boy had suffered fatal injuries by falling off a counter and landing in an empty bathtub when she was briefly out of the room. But the truth was written across Myls’ broken body.
“This was a tragic, tragic death of a little boy,” PoliceCommissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday.
King, who began dating Myls’ father, Okee Wade, just a few months ago, first took Myls into her home Dec.21. She told police thaton that day she picked him up from a cousin’s home in Canarsie, Brooklyn, after Wade called her from jail and asked her to take care of him, she told police, sources said.
Two days earlier, on Dec. 19, Wade, 37, was arrested in Brooklyn on a warrant that was issued after he failed to show up in court on charges that he took part in a bank fraud scheme in NewJersey.
The 5-foot-10, 230-pound King — who also sports a MickeyMouse tattoo on her body — admitted to police that she had beaten Myls with a belt and hanger because she was using corporal punishment in “trying to control him,” police sources said.He hadbeen acting up, she claimed.
King — who also went by the alias “Monroe” according to court records — slammed Myls’ head against a wall, knocking out his tooth, sources said. And she told cops she locked him in the bathroom when he wouldn’t behave.
“This is a horrific incident,” Bratton said. “He received injuries over a number of days.”
The medical examiner performed an autopsy Thursday, but more tests will be needed before a cause of death can be established, officials said. Charges may be upgraded depending on the results, sources said.
Myls’ devastated relatives told the Daily News that the boy fell through the cracks of the family network after his father’s arrest. An aunt and uncle of the boy’s in Brooklyn thought the chubby-faced tot was staying with cousins, while Myls’ mother — who lost custody of him in 2012 due to neglect — and her family believed he was still with his father.
In reality, Wade was thrown in jail in New Jersey after his arrest. He’s charged with seconddegree counts of conspiracy and money laundering for his alleged role in withdrawing at Atlantic City casinos more than $275,000 from people’s bank accounts.
Instead of calling his immediate family to carefor Myls, Wade called his new girlfriend, his family said. The family also did not know Wade was dating King, nor that she is a transgendered woman. The abuse started soon after King took Myls in, likely around Dec. 26, cops told relatives. “(King) told detectives that (Myls) was asking for McDonald’s and she beat him with a belt buckle over his head. There were cigarette burns all over his body. She always beat him with a belt buckle,” said Josiah Cees
sar, 35, the hus-
band of Myls’ aunt, Orquidia Wade.
Ceessar said Wade had just met King and bragged about his new girlfriend’s swanky apartment. “(Okee) just was telling everybody about this nice girl he met. She had a lot of money and had a nice apartment on 48th St. in Manhattan. Nobody knew her,” Ceessar said.
Myls’ paternal grandmother, Gloria Wade, 60, said the boy lived with his mother in South Carolina for a few years after his birth in April 2009. Dobson has mental disabilities and isn’t always stable, family members said.
“She was caught on a videotape in a parking lot outside a store in South Carolina beating him and child services started an investigation,” said the heart broken grand mother.
Dobson fled investigators by moving to Brooklyn, where she has relatives, Gloria Wade said.
According to the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, Dobson was investigated in January 2011 for inade- quate te care of her child. child The claim was dismissed. The same allegation against Dobson was made in September 2011. ACS investigators found reason to remove Myls from her custody in October 2012 and place him with his father.
“I don’t know why ACS wasn’t involved more,” Gloria Wade said.
ACS has said only that it is investigat- ing the boy’s death.
Police told Okee Wade in jail Thursday morning about hisson’s death.
Ashlee Dobson, who lives in Harlem, identified her son’s body at the morgue Thursday. Her lawyer, Philip Lights, said she was inconsolable, screaming, and cried the entire time.