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Susan Baffour pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in death in a deal with prosecutors in the death of 8-year-old Dametrious Wilson.
DENVER — A woman who admitted to beating her 8-year-old great-nephew to death with a wooden back scrubber was sentenced to 36 years in prison on Monday afternoon in Denver District Court.
Susan Baffour, 63, was also sentenced to five years of mandatory probation. She had faced 16 to 48 years in prison after pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in death last month. She agreed to that charge in a plea deal that let her avoid being tried for first-degree murder.
A judge had given Baffour parental rights over Dametrious Wilson and his older sister in 2017 after the kids were removed from their mother’s custody.
> The video above aired in November 2022: Great-aunt facing charges in Denver boy’s death
In the year before his June 2022 death, Dametrious missed 60 days of school, prompting teachers at Ashley Elementary in Denver to report their fears that the boy was being abused. Those reports were screened out without any follow-up.
Baffour reported 52 of those absences for Dametrious and his sister, listing illness, injury, family business – and sometimes nothing – as the reason.
Police first got involved after Baffour called 911 on June 3, 2022, reporting that Dametrious wasn’t breathing.
She acknowledged to police that she’d spanked him the night before – but later admitting hitting him repeatedly with a wooden back scrubber, according to court documents.
Dametrious died 12 days later.
> Video below aired in May: Family navigates Denver Human Services after Dametrious Wilson’s death:
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