Decide Accuses Mother of ‘Bragging About’ Handcuffing Son Earlier than Canine ‘Used Him as a Chew Toy’

On Monday, Ashland County Widespread Pleas Court docket Decide Dave Stimpert sentenced Angelina Williams (above heart) to the utmost sentence of 28 1/2 years for the mauling of her son, 6, with the choose saying she set him up for use “as a chew toy” by cuffing his arms and toes.

The sentencing comes after Williams had beforehand pleaded responsible on one depend of kidnapping and 4 counts of kid endangerment. She was one in every of three people charged after the loss of life of her son on August 17, 2024.

In line with a press launch from the Ashland County Prosecuting Legal professional’s Workplace on the time, the kids, a 6-year-old boy and 8-year-old lady, “have been being periodically restrained utilizing handcuffs and different gadgets in Michalski’s residence. On August 17, 2024, whereas the boy was restrained, he was attacked by a canine, leading to critical bodily accidents.”

The person who owned the canine and the home the place the tragic mauling occurred, Robert Michalski Jr. (above left), was discovered responsible of a number of fees in a jury trial, together with two felony counts of complicity to commit endangering youngsters and one felony depend of tampering with proof.

After a 4 day trial final month, jurors did discover him not responsible on fees of kidnapping, possessing prison instruments and one other baby endangerment depend, per Regulation & Crime on the time.

The third suspect is Taylor Marvin-Brown (above proper), described as Williams’ “paramour” by the prosecution. He pleaded responsible in April to 1 depend of obstructing justice, one depend of complicity in fee of a felony (kidnapping), and two counts of complicity in fee of a felony (baby endangerment).

Each of them are scheduled for sentencing later this month.

In courtroom on Monday, Williams’ protection lawyer Jennifer Harmon argued to the courtroom that her shopper had come to grips with the seriousness of her actions.

Williams learn an announcement out the place she mentioned she understands that what occurred will “in all probability hang-out (her youngsters) for the remainder of their lives,” for which she’s going to “by no means” forgive herself. Williams didn’t have custody of her youngsters on the time of the assault, however they have been together with her for a two-week go to.

The prosecutor famous that in this go to, the kids have been punished once they wouldn’t need to choose up canine feces, and that punishment got here with them being “handcuffed and tied to chairs.”

“Handcuffed at their ankles; handcuffed at their wrists,” mentioned Assistant Prosecuting Legal professional Matthew Metcalf in courtroom on Monday. “It is unfathomable so far as egregiousness. I feel it is in all probability the worst type of the offense you can have.”

He referred to as Williams the “most concerned” of the three charged, noting that she allegedly “Snapchatted photos of the kids tied up” and shared them with different folks.

“To me, that is the worst,” Metcalf argued. “That is an understanding of ‘not solely am I doing this, however I am sort of happy with it.'”

After weighing each side, Decide Stimpert sided totally with the prosecution, laying into Williams himself. “Damian was handcuffed and the pit bull used him as a chew toy and the adults made up a narrative to cowl their butts,” he mentioned, per Regulation & Crime.

“Besides utilizing him as a chew toy is placing it very evenly. That canine tried to tear out his throat,” he continued. “To see the images of the bruising round his eyes and face from the pressure, the  stress that that canine placed on his throat — to see the injuries on his neck? I am undecided there are phrases that adequately describe that.”

He reminded Williams that as these youngsters’s mom, it’s her obligation to guard them from hurt, not bodily and mentally abuse them time and again. “I do not know any mom that might suppose handcuffing a toddler’s arms and toes is a good suggestion, interval,” he mentioned.

“But not solely did it, you do it a number of occasions,” he added, “you shared images of it — basically bragging about it.”

In her first courtroom look again in August 2024, Williams tried to downplay her involvement, saying, “The canine is just not even my canine. The cuffs are usually not even my cuffs,” per Fox 8. “I did not even know the cuffs have been unlawful or something was fallacious with it. My uncle informed me it was OK.”

“I by no means meant any hurt. I actually did not,” she added.

In line with the Ashland County Sheriff’s Workplace in August 2024, they have been informed a canine bit the boy on the neck and ear in a 911 name. When deputies arrived on the scene, per the sheriff, the boy was in “critical situation” and Life Flight — an air and floor crucial care transport service — was referred to as.

The boy’s mom, Williams, was recognized on the scene, and was allegedly staying with a household pal of Michalski — who owned each the home and canine. Neither he nor the canine have been discovered on the residence when deputies arrived.

The case then took a flip when authorities “realized by way of an investigation that the 6-year-old baby had been restrained with handcuffs on his arms and toes when the Pitbull attacked him,” mentioned the sheriff.

At that time, a search warrant was executed on the residence, “the place deputies recovered proof to assist the investigation.” The Sheriff’s Workplace additionally claimed that whereas deputies have been looking the house, “they discovered Robert and the pitbull hiding in a cubbyhole upstairs.”

Each Williams and Michalski have been then taken into custody, as was Marvin-Brown, who authorities declare “was on the home and assisted with the restraining” of the kid. The canine, in the meantime, was “taken into custody to be housed as a vicious canine.”