THINKING ABOUT HIS DEATH AND HOW HIS BODY STILL HAS NOT BEEN RECOVERED. A SAINT JUDE CANDLE AND LITTLE DINOSAURS. REPORTER: AS JENNIFER MULLINS ADDED TO THIS GROWING MEMORIAL IN HONOR OF 6-YEAR-OLD JAMES HUTCHINSON, YOU CAN SENSE SADNESS AND ANGER IN HER VOICE. ANYBODY THAT HEARD THE STORY IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED BY IT. AS A MOTHER MYSELF, I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW YOU CAN DO THAT TO YOUR CHILD, YOUR OWN CHILD. REPORTER: MIDDLETOWN POLICE SAY JAMES’S MOTHER, BRITTANY GOSNEY , MURDERED HER SON. THEN SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND, JAMES HAMILTON, DUMPED HIS BODY IN THE OHIO RIVER. ACCORDING TO POLICE RECORDS RELEASED TODAY, BRITTANY TOLD POLICE HAMILTON WANTED HER TO GET RID OF HER CHILDREN. SHE REPORTEDLY TOLD POLICE SHE DROVE JAMES AND HIS TWO SIBLINGS TO RUSH RUN PARK IN PREBLE COUNTY AND SHE "PLANNED TO GET THE KIDS OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND TO LEAVE THEM BEHIND AS HAMILTON HAD BEEN PRESSURING HER TO GET RID OF THE KIDS." THE REPORT SAYS JAMES GRABBED THE DOOR HANDLE AND BRITTANY SLAMMED THE GAS, TRYING TO LEAVE THE KIDS, A DRUG HUTCHINSON, POSSIBLY RUNNING HIM OVER. SHE REPORTEDLY LEFT JAMES AND HER TWO OTHER KIDS IN THE LOT THEN RETURNED. JAMES WAS DEAD. POLICE SAY SHE DROVE HIS BODY AND THE TWO OTHER CHILDREN BACK TO THEIR HOME IN MIDDLETOWN BEFORE THE COUPLE DUMPED JAMES ' ’S BODY IN THE OHIO RIVER. >> I MEAN, IT’S JUST SICK. THIS POOR KID STILL HAS NO JUSTICE. NO ONE KNOWS WHERE HE IS RIGHT NOW. >> IT IS JUST HEART WRENCHING THAT THIS BABY LOST HIS LIFE FOR NO APPARENT REASON. REPORTER: AT THE MEMORIAL, PEOPLE CRIED, LOOKING AT ALL OF THE BALLOONS, TOYS, PHOTOS, AND PERSONAL MESSAGES LEFT FOR JAMES. >> IN MY HEART, THIS IS A BABY. THIS BABY ONLY WANTED TO BE WAS LOVED REPORTER ABOUT 20 SECONDS AGO, THREE MIDDLETOWN POLICE OFFICERS WENT BACK INTO THE HOUSE HERE ON CRAWFORD. I ASKED ONE OF THE DETECTIVES IF THEY ARE DOING MORE INVESTIGATING AND THEY SAID THEY ARE EXECUTING A SEARCH WARRANT. ONE OTHER THING I DID WANT TO POINT OUT ABOUT WHAT WE LEARNED TODAY, NEW INFORMATION. ACCORDING TO THE POLIC DOCUMENTS FROM PREBLE COUNTY, GOSNEY REPORTEDLY BROUGHT THE CHILDREN AND KIL
Middletown mother charged in 6-year-old son's death pleads guilty
Updated: 11:10 AM EDT Aug 16, 2021
A Middletown mother charged with killing her 6-year-old son and dumping him in the Ohio River pleaded guilty to murder Monday.Brittany Gosney, 29, who was charged with killing her 6-year-old son, James Hutchinson, and dumping him in the Ohio River, pleaded guilty to one count of murder and two other counts of child endangering, her attorney David Washington confirmed. As a part of the plea deal, all other charges were dismissed.Gosney originally pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity earlier this year, but was later ruled competent to stand trial. Officials said Gosney intended on abandoning three of her children when she drove them to the Rush Run Wildlife area in Preble County on Feb. 27 at 3 a.m. As Gosney attempted to leave, police said James grabbed the handle of the car door. Police said Gosney sped off and dragged James. Gosney reportedly told police she went back to get him and he was dead. Police said she put his body, along with her two other children, back in the car and drove home to Middletown.The next day, police said Gosney and her boyfriend, James Hamilton, 42, threw James' body into the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. His body has not been recovered.Gosney tells police that her boyfriend, Hamilton, was pressuring her to get rid of her children. Investigators believe it was her intention to leave all three children at the park. Hamilton has been indicted on three counts each of kidnapping, abduction, endangering children, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse. He is also set to appear in court Monday.Several searches have taken place on the Ohio River over the several few months in hopes of recovering James' body. So far, no search has successfully detected any sign of James.
A Middletown mother charged with killing her 6-year-old son and dumping him in the Ohio River pleaded guilty to murder Monday.
Brittany Gosney, 29, who was charged with killing her 6-year-old son, James Hutchinson, and dumping him in the Ohio River, pleaded guilty to one count of murder and two other counts of child endangering, her attorney David Washington confirmed.
As a part of the plea deal, all other charges were dismissed.
Gosney originally pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity earlier this year, but was later ruled competent to stand trial.
Officials said Gosney intended on abandoning three of her children when she drove them to the Rush Run Wildlife area in Preble County on Feb. 27 at 3 a.m. As Gosney attempted to leave, police said James grabbed the handle of the car door. Police said Gosney sped off and dragged James. Gosney reportedly told police she went back to get him and he was dead. Police said she put his body, along with her two other children, back in the car and drove home to Middletown.
The next day, police said Gosney and her boyfriend, James Hamilton, 42, threw James' body into the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. His body has not been recovered.
Gosney tells police that her boyfriend, Hamilton, was pressuring her to get rid of her children. Investigators believe it was her intention to leave all three children at the park.
Hamilton has been indicted on three counts each of kidnapping, abduction, endangering children, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse. He is also set to appear in court Monday.
Several searches have taken place on the Ohio River over the several few months in hopes of recovering James' body. So far, no search has successfully detected any sign of James.
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