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A texas A three-year-old boy is on life support after suffering serious injuries, with doctors saying explanations given by his mother and her boyfriend are inconsistent.
According to a recently released arrest affidavit, Chelsea Rene Berg, 30, confronted her boyfriend, Christopher Thomas Alexander, 30, about injuries found on their son Dawson Zamora, more than a month before the child was taken to the hospital due to severe brain trauma.
“He clearly hit his head when he fell, he has a bruise on his eyebrow and his entire jaw/cheek is bruised,” according to the message she sent him. The affidavit was obtained by FOX4.
“You’re reckless. He’s getting progressively more hurtful with you!!! Leave me alone!!! I’m not blind. You’re dangerous.”
But despite the confrontation, police say Berg left Dawson in Alexander’s care again on October 14. She told detectives she left for work around 7:20 a.m. and later received a call from Alexander saying he was taking the child to the hospital.
According to court documents, Alexander claimed he heard a “thud-thud” sound and found Dawson unresponsive.
But doctors said the boy’s extensive injuries, which included bleeding on the brain, lacerations to his chest and abdomen, bruises in various stages of healing and anal trauma, were inconsistent with that explanation.
Berg insisted that her son did not suffer these injuries when she left for work that morning. Alexander hired a lawyer at the hospital and refused to speak to police.
The affidavit’s additional text messages — which police say revealed a disturbing pattern of abuse — show Berg repeatedly expressed concern that her boyfriend was harming her son.
He wrote that Dawson also suffered new injuries while home from school recovering from old injuries – including a bruise on his genitals, which he said was dismissed because “it could have happened at school as well.”
“1000000% serious. You hurt her, hurt her and hurt her every time you’re with her,” she wrote on Sept. 18, according to the affidavit. “There hasn’t been a time when you’ve been with him and he hasn’t been hurt.”
Both Berg and Alexander were arrested on 16 October.
Alexander, 30, is being held in the Collin County Jail on charges of injury to a child, stalking and tampering or fabricating evidence with intent to harm an investigation. His bond is set at $210,000.
Berg has been charged with injury to a child, a first-degree felony. The day the case was registered against her, she came out of jail.
Court documents state that Berg is barred from contacting her son as part of the terms of her release.
But a few days later, she reportedly received news that Dawson had no brain activity, so she filed an emergency motion asking the judge to modify her bond so she could “say goodbye to her son before he passes away.”
Dawson’s current condition has not been publicly updated, but his biological father, Dahrian Zamora, declined an interview with FOX4, saying he wanted to be at his son’s hospital bedside.
A gofundme Dawson, raised by extended family, is described as “a brave little boy who fought a long battle”.