A Texas mother and her boyfriend were arrested earlier this month after her toddler son was brought to the hospital with severe brain trauma, including a brain bleed, bruising in various states of healing all over his body, wounds to his chest and abdomen, and anal trauma.
Three-year-old Dawson Cain Zamora is reportedly on life support at a hospital, KDFW reported.
Court documents say Christopher Thomas Alexander, the mother’s 30-year-old boyfriend, brought Dawson to the hospital on October 14, saying he heard a “thud” and found the boy. But hospital staff said the injuries the child suffered did not match Alexander’s claims and called police.
Police spoke with the mother, 30-year-old Chelsea Rene Berg, who said she left the boy with Alexander at around 7:30 that morning, then later got a text from the boyfriend about Dawson eating lunch. But after lunch, she said, he gave her a panicked phone call saying he was taking the child to the hospital.
Berg said she rushed to the hospital, where Alexander told her the same story about the “thud” he told hospital staff. Police showed Berg photos of her son’s injuries, and she said he didn’t have them when she left for work that morning.
Meanwhile, Alexander hired an attorney while at the hospital and refused to speak with police.
Alexander and Berg were both arrested two days later. Alexander is being held on $210,000 bonds, charged with injury to a child, stalking, and tampering/fabricating evidence with intent to impair an investigation.
Berg was charged with injury to a child and posted a $100,000 bond the same day she was arrested. A condition of her release was that she have no contact with the boy.
But on October 19, her attorney filed an emergency motion to modify the bond conditions after she was notified the child had no brain activity and was to be taken off life support. The motion requested supervised access so she could “say goodbye to her son before he passes away.”
The boy’s current condition is unknown. His biological father, Dahrian Zamora, told KFDA that his son has “had no improvement.”
“He has global brain damage, and he’s still on life support and has not improved,” Zamora said.
“He was beaten so bad that he was beaten to death, and that’s public knowledge of what I’ve already said,” said Zamora. “He did beat my son to death, that he did kill him. But when he got to the lobby of Medical Center McKinney, he was already dead.”
Medical staff resuscitated the boy, but he was placed on life support.
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[Featured image: Chelsea Rene Berg and Christopher Thomas Alexander/Collin County Sheriff’s Office. Inset: Dawson Cain Zamora/GoFundMe]
