WATCHED HIM DIE
Mayor orders ACS probe
Kryzie King, the monster who has allegedly admitted to the unimaginable abuse of little Myls Dobson (inset), is charged Friday with assault, unlawful imprisonment and child endangerment. King could face further charges in the tot’s death. Mayor de Blasio also demanded answers from the city’s child services agency.
HE WAS A VICTIM of unimaginable cruelty — beaten, burned, starved, gagged and exposed wearing only shorts and a T-shirt to record-breaking cold.
And to cap the torture, according to prosecutors, the 4-year-old boy’s hulking baby-sitter watched him die.
The shocking new details — as heartbreaking as they are infuriating — emerged Friday from court records and law enforcement sources. They stand in stark contrast to Kryzie King’s initial claims that she was in another room at her W. 48th St. apartment when Myls Dobson fell unconscious in the bathroom.
“She watched Myls die right in front of her eyes,” Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said at King’s arraignment. “He slumped over in the bathroom. His eyes were unfocused . . . his eyes were fluttering. She watched him completely shut down.”
About three weeks before his death on Wednesday, the little boy’s father, Okee Wade, dropped Myls off with King. She became the primary caregiver. Instead of care, this is what he got, according to police sources and court records: l Myls was burned on his right leg with a hot metal rack from an oven, as King wore oven mitts. l His last full meal was on Dec. 26. The last time he ate anything was on Jan. 3. lHe lost 20 to 25 pounds. l King used shoelaces to bind Myls to a chair. She gagged him with a cloth so he wouldn’t scream. That was punishment for spilling perfume. l Myls was locked outside on the 11th-floor balcony on Jan. 7 for up to an hour, as the wind chill dipped well below zero. He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. lOn or about the same date, King locked the boy in a bathroom for three hours in the dark. l King, who is 5-feet-10 and weighs 230 pounds, said Myls started “fighting with her” in the bathroom on Wednesday. Myls lost consciousness; King was not hurt.
Prosecutors on Friday said King let the boy — who was happy and healthy when she started taking care of him — suffer inside the bathroom. She phoned several friends and then waited up to an hour before calling 911.
King, 27, showed no emotion in court as she was charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and unlawful imprisonment. She was ordered held on $500,000 bail. The medical examiner hasn’t determined how the boy died.
Sources said prosecutors could empanel a grand jury as soon as next week. Charges could be elevated to murder.
The horrifying death evokes memories of Nixzmary Brown, a 7-year-old girl from Bedford- Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She was beaten to death exactly eight years ago by her stepfather for swiping yogurt from the fridge. She was tortured and starved for months, leading to a shakeup of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services.
Mayor de Blasio, while public advocate, fought for ACS reform after the Brown case. On Friday, he said a probe has been launched into the death of the burned and bat- tered boy.
“We lost a child in the last few days, 4-year-old Myls Dobson,” de Blasio said. “It was a tragedy in every sense. Something that should never happen in this city.” De Blasio vowed the investigation would not drag on.
“Each one of these tragedies, it’s our job to try to stop,” de Blasio said. “And God forbid when they hap- pen, it’s our job to learn from them and try every time to do better so we can reach more children. So this investigation will start immediately. We expect to hear back in about a week, so that’s gonna help us know if we have to do any revisions in our policies so we can protect our children better.”
The dead boy’s mother, Ashlee Dobson, 29, and other relatives spoke Friday morning at a tearfilled press conference. They demanded to know why ACS — which awarded Wade full custody in October 2012 after Dobson was
deemed unfit — didn’t intervene when the father was jailed in New Jersey on a fraud charge.
“I just want to know why nobody checked on him,” said Myls’ paternal grandmother, Gloria Wade.
Some of the relatives viewed a photo of the boy’s body. His lips were swollen. There were bruises all over his body and there was a gash under his left eye. There appeared to be cigarette burn marks between his eyebrows.
“The loss of this young boy is a heartbreaking tragedy and the city offers its sympathies to his family,” read a statement issued by ACS late te Friday.
Wade has a lengthy rap sheet et with 13 arrests. The most recent nt was in September 2012 — a month before ACS gave him custody of Myls.
King, a transgendered ed woman originally born Christoopher King, has a sealed rape arrest on her record. A woman suffered a fractured jaw in the attack, sources told The News. It appears King was arrested as a teenage boy and not convicted. .