Details About Dead S.I. Boy's Short Life

The Staten Island's DA's office gave some very grim details about the final hours of 10-year-old Jaquan Sekulski's life, after his mother was arraigned on manslaughter charges. Melissa Sekulski was arrested after the boy's unconscious body was found in their apartment Friday night. The prosecutor, who noted the apartment was infested with cockroaches and had no food, said, "The defendant has been physically abusing the victim for years, by her own admission... She thrashed him with a belt and belt buckle and a burned him with the buckle." The boy's headed was smashed against the wall repeatedly on Friday night, but a neighbor, who came to help when he heard the mother's cries and saw fluid coming from Jaquan's nose, told the News, "His mother told me he was having trouble breathing and he wanted to lay down on the floor... I was thinking, poor woman - I was really feeling sorry for her." The News also heard from an inmate, who claimed Sekulski "was telling a lot of people that the kid got out of hand and she just lost it." The S.I. D.A.'s office said the child died of "battered child syndrome."

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By Jen Chung in News on December 29, 2008 10:44 AM

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NannyState

She should be boiled alive. bring back the 16th Century!

Clarice City

Where the hell was Social Services before this animal killed child? Was it not a red flag for abuse and neglect when the child ballooned to 250 pounds at only 10 years old?

Splicer

This is what comes from not having strict control over who is or is not allowed to have children. People are licensed to own cars and to go fishing yet can pop out as many kids as possible without the remotest capacity to take care of them.

This woman is the worst kind of scum although I don't doubt that Orca Winfrey will do an entire show about this subject and make excuses the whole time.

whitecastlerock

The poor kid didn't deserve a fate like this...

Steven

This story has been repeated way too often.

Looks like she was pregnant with him at 19. Where is the father? In prison?

Rocknrope

May she rot in hell.

Amanda Harletsch

Yet ANOTHER example of stupid people having kids to then abuse them till dead! Reproduction rights should come with HIGH TAXES!

JRod5417

Kids tend to get out of hand when they are being starved and beaten on a regular basis. This woman is pure trash.

r1b2

Please don't tell me we're going to spend a lot of taxpayer money on a lengthy trial. Lock her away, where she can do no further harm to anyone.