NY Daily News
January 10, 2014
Daddy made a call from jail, a call that ultimately condemned his 4-year-old son to death — a death that brought an end to days of beatings and torture.
Let down by his mother, and then by his father, little Myls Dobson found himself in the care of his dad’s new girlfriend, Kryzie King, 27, in a luxury Hell’s Kitchen apartment.
It was a living hell.
Myls had a host of loving relatives who would have taken him in, but his father chose a woman his family barely knew, who beat the boy with a belt, making sure the buckle struck his head, police sources and Myls’ relatives said.
In the apartment in The Ritz Plaza on W. 48th St. that his father thought was so great, Myls was also whipped with a clothes hanger by King, cop sources said.
On Wednesday, the last day of his tragic life, Myls asked King to go to McDonald’s. Instead, he was beaten and locked in a bathroom — a punishment that he’d endured before, along with many others that were just as evil, or perhaps even worse.
When paramedics rushed inside the apartment that day, responding to a 911 call placed by King, they found Myls unconscious, his small, battered body covered in cigarette burns, his torso and legs marred by bruises, police sources said. One of his front teeth had been knocked out. He died at a Manhattan hospital not long after his arrival.
“Why? Why? Why?” Myls’ mother, Ashlee Dobson, 29, asked when she first saw his brutalized body, according to her lawyer. “How could this happen?”
King was led out of the Midtown North stationhouse after she was charged Thursday night with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. The despondent King kept her head down and said nothing to reporters as she was dragged away in cuffs, wearing gray sweatpants and a snorkel jacket with the hood up to shield her face.
She told cops the boy had suffered fatal injuries by falling off a counter and landing in an empty bathtub when she was briefly out of the room. But the truth was written across Myls’ broken body.
“This was a tragic, tragic death of a little boy,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday.
King, who began dating Myls’ father, Okee Wade, just a few months ago, first took Myls into her home Dec. 21. She told police that on that day she picked him up from a cousin’s home in Canarsie, Brooklyn, after Wade called her from jail and asked her to take care of him, sources said.
Two days earlier, on Dec. 19, Wade, 37, was arrested in Brooklyn on a warrant that was issued after he failed to show up in court on charges that he took part in a bank fraud scheme in New Jersey.
The 5-foot-10, 230-pound King — who also sports a Mickey Mouse tattoo on her body — admitted to police that she had beaten Myls with a belt and hanger because she was using corporal punishment in “trying to control him,” police sources said. He had been acting up, she claimed.
King — who also went by the alias “Monroe” according to court records — slammed Myls’ head against a wall, knocking out his tooth, sources said. And she told cops she locked him in the bathroom when he wouldn’t behave.
“This is a horrific incident,” Bratton said. “He received injuries over a number of days.”