INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis father is expected to plead guilty but cite a mental illness in theDefendants of 40-year-old Anthony Dibiah filed a plea agreement Monday of"guilty but mentally ill" on the murder charge.
Defendants and prosecutors also agreed to a sentence of no more than 55 years. The judge will make the final ruling.According to a probable cause affidavit, two people — a friend and a distant relative — called police and said Dibiah had called them saying he had killed his own son, 10-year-old Nakota Kelly. The first call to police came July 18, 2020, from the relative. Police went to Dibiah's apartment to do a welfare check around 10 p.m.
The second call came one day later from the friend. The friend said Dibiah asked to borrow a suitcase, and after the friend said yes, Dibiah called back and said he suffocated his son using a bag. The friend said Dibiah then told him he took the boy's body to the bathroom to make sure he was dead, dumped it, and had left the state.
When police got to Dibiah's apartment on Indy's west side around 11:45 a.m. on July 19, 2020, there was a crime scene, but neither Dibiah nor his son were there. Officers found blood and brain matter in the bathroom and blood in the bedroom of the apartment.
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