The following morning his mother, Christina Robinson, threw the dirty mattress out of his bedroom window.Shortly before 3.51pm she shook him, or banged his head, so badly that his brain was injured.Dwelaniyah Robinson's death on 5 November was the end of a reign of cruelty and neglect that had begun at least 18 days earlier.
But Robinson did not take her son to hospital. Instead she treated his burns at their home in Ushaw Moor, County Durham, using aloe vera gel and bandages, relying on internet searches for “natural remedies to burn wounds” and “how to treat first degree minor burns”. While Dwelaniyah was suffering, his father, Gabriel Adu-Appau, 33, was oblivious to the cruelty being inflicted by his wife.
“I feel like slapping someone,” she wrote, “these damn kids.” Later in a WhatsApp voice-note she told Mr Onoja “he’s going to get his ass kicked,” adding: “He will get exactly what he deserves. No more, no less.” Robinson follows a new religious movement called the Black Hebrew Israelites, whose members believe themselves to be the descendants of a lost tribe of Israel that was displaced to Africa and then sold into slavery.
Over the 18 days between burning Dwelaniyah and killing him, she left him and his brother at home on their own at least seven times - something she said was “commonly done”.On 5 November, the day Dwelaniyah died, Christina Robinson threw his soiled mattress out of the window. He had “had an accident”, she told the court, and there was a “good amount” of urine and faeces on the mattress.
Despite her little boy being unconscious, Christina Robinson did not call an ambulance immediately. Instead she sent a WhatsApp message to Dwelaniyah’s father, Gabriel Adu-Appau, saying “call me please”. Then, after trying to call him, she searched YouTube for videos on “how to resuscitate a child”. He added: "But you would expect a sizeable chunk of something to be wedged in his airway. As far as I know, nobody found anything wedged in the airway at any point.”
“He was trying to get out, he couldn’t get out. That's what happened, I tried to cool him down with cold water and everything.”
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