'It takes your kid dying … to get them outta your hair': Woman let 12-year-old son with muscular dystrophy slowly starve to death with nibbles of chicken nuggets and pizza, police say

For much than a year, a Wisconsin parent failed to attraction for her 12-year-old disabled son, starring to his death astatine conscionable 56 pounds, authorities allege.

Tina Marie Beauprey, 51, stands accused of child neglect resulting successful death, tribunal records say. Her lad suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which made him babelike connected his caregivers, namely Beauprey, a transgression ailment obtained by section ABC affiliate WBAY stated.

Cops accidental Beauprey failed to decently provender oregon springiness aesculapian attraction to her lad betwixt November 2024 and his decease connected Dec. 5. An autopsy listed the origin of his decease arsenic starvation, citing the mode of decease arsenic homicide. The aesculapian examiner reportedly concluded that the boy, who has not been publically identified, would "still beryllium live today" if the adults successful his beingness had fed him properly.

But Beauprey's ain alleged comments look to amusement she had fixed up connected caring for him.

"It's beauteous bittersweet that, that it takes your kid dying conscionable to get disconnected of, to get them outta your hair," she allegedly stated, according to the complaint.

Investigators besides reportedly learned that Beauprey could person utilized acquisition cards supplied by the Department of Human Services to bargain nutrient for her son. But the lad lone ate a fewer bites of frozen chickenhearted nuggets and pizza successful the weeks starring up to his death, the ailment stated, per WBAY.

Beauprey besides reportedly ignored infirmary unit who wanted to bring him successful to cheque his value and ne'er opened his medicine medication. She told investigators that her lad was sick the week of Thanksgiving and she "just knew helium was going to beryllium gone soon."

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According to a probable origin affidavit obtained by section Fox affiliate WLUK, which was work successful tribunal past week by Judge Laura Lavey, the lad weighed 80 pounds successful November 2024 and dropped to 56 pounds successful the adjacent year. The documents stated that 15% of his full value nonaccomplishment occurred successful the past 5 weeks of the boy's life.

Fond du Lac County Assistant District Attorney Kristin Menzl told the tribunal that "care [was] not being provided to the child, including a deficiency of food." She said the boy's wellness became importantly worse successful the 2 days starring up to his death, but Beauprey "did not question retired immoderate aesculapian attraction for the victim, adjacent though it was evident helium was declining."

Beauprey's defence attorney, Michael Queensland, said the household expected the lad to suffer a ample magnitude of value due to the fact that of his diagnosis. Queensland told the court, "The household had been informed that the kid was terminally ill. He was going to suffer weight. And soon, was going to request a feeding tube."

Jamie Frevele contributed to this report