According to the court documents, the 29-year-old mother from Ohio pleaded guilty to killing her 6-year-old son who she allegedly tried to abandon. On Monday, she accepted a plea for murder and two counts of endangering children. That just leaves her co-defendant 42-year-old boyfriend with the remaining case for allegedly helping dump her son’s body into the Ohio River.
Her name is Brittany Gosney and the sentencing is set for Monday, Sept. 13. The mother fro Ohio admitted to a horrifying sequence of events. She told prosecutors that she was going to abandon her 6-year-old son, James Robert Hutchinson, and his 7- and 9-year-old siblings at the Rush Run Wildlife Area on Feb. 27.
But, the 6-year-old boy grabbed onto the door of her vehicle. Instead of stopping, she tried to drive away. The mother from Ohio slammed the gas trying to leave the kids and drug Hutchinson possibly running him over. She turned the vehicle around to check on Hutchinson and he was dead.
She took the 7- and 9-year-old children back home with Hutchinson’s body. She and her boyfriend, James Hamilton, tossed the dead 6-year-old boy off a bridge into the Ohio River near Indiana.
They reported the boy missing even though she had just discarded his body. But, eventually, the couple confessed. Gosney initially sought an insanity defense, but she walked it back after the court determined she was competent to stand trial.
