Earlier this month, authorities in Texas apprehended a mother and her boyfriend after her young son was admitted to the hospital with critical brain injuries, including a brain hemorrhage. The toddler also had multiple bruises in varying stages of healing, injuries to his chest and abdomen, and signs of anal trauma.
The three-year-old, Dawson Cain Zamora, is currently on life support, as reported by KDFW.
According to court records, 30-year-old Christopher Thomas Alexander, the boyfriend of the child’s mother, brought Dawson to the hospital on October 14, claiming he had heard a “thud” and discovered the boy injured. However, medical staff noted that the child’s injuries were inconsistent with Alexander’s account, prompting them to alert the police.
Officers interviewed the child’s mother, Chelsea Rene Berg, also 30, who stated she had left her son in Alexander’s care around 7:30 that morning. She mentioned receiving a text message from Alexander about Dawson having lunch, only to later receive a frantic call from him saying he was heading to the hospital with the child.
Berg hurried to the hospital, where Alexander repeated his story about the “thud” to her, as he had to the medical personnel. When police showed Berg images of her son’s injuries, she insisted the injuries were not present when she left for work earlier that day.
While at the hospital, Alexander retained a lawyer and declined to provide a statement to the 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.
