The New Jersey mother accused of killing her toddler son told police she beat her boy because he wouldn’t eat or listen to her, according to court documents filed Monday.
Nakira Griner, 24, owned up to striking her 2-year-son Daniel so hard that she left bruises on his face and also told police that he fell down a flight of stairs, according to the criminal complaint.
She unleashed the attack after he refused to eat or listen to her, she said. After hitting her son, she didn’t call for help, and instead put him in a stroller and left him alone, she claimed, according to the complaint.
The admission came after the mom originally told police on Friday that her child had been abducted.
She said a stranger attacked her on Atlantic Street around 6:30 p.m. while she was walking with Daniel in a stroller and her infant son strapped to her chest. She said her attacker kicked her to the ground and that when she looked up, the stroller was gone.
Police found the stroller, containing only a pair of red sneakers, a few blocks from the scene of the alleged attack.
When no surveillance footage could be found to verify her story, Griner agreed to take a polygraph and failed it. She claimed she left Daniel still alive in the stroller, “because she wanted someone to find him and help him because no one would believe her.”
But cops found the child’s charred remains in trash bags around 3 a.m. Saturday buried under a shed in the yard of Griner’s home and charged the mom with murder.
Investigators haven’t said how the boy died.
In her most recent Facebook post, Griner wrote about her love for her husband.
“In love with him that’s why we have two beautiful children,” she wrote.
With Post wires