Parents who duct-taped adopted son, 4, face down for hours before he died learn their fate
A twisted couple will spend decades in prison for the torture and murder of their 4-year-old adopted son, who was found malnourished and restrained with duct tape, face down in their North Carolina home.Chiropractor Joseph Paul Wilson, 45, and his wife, Jodi Ann Wilson, 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse-related charges on Wednesday in Surry County Superior Court over the death of Skyler Wilson, and were sentenced to between 32 and 40 years in prison, the Mount Airy News reported.The evil pair subjected Skyler and his siblings to exorcisms at their home in Mount Airy, close to the Virginia border, using horrific disciplinary practices they had learned from books, according to the Surry County District Attorney’s Office.On Jan.5, 2023, Jodi wrapped Skyler in a bedsheet, using duct tape to restrain the young boy face down on the floor of the family’s home for several hours, according to the DA’s office.Joseph bought the duct tape and Ace bandages earlier that day for the purpose of restraining the child, and didn’t intervene when he came home from work for lunch and saw Skyler tied up, as per the DA.Jodi eventually released Skyer and messaged her husband a picture of the boy wrapped in a sheet, face down on the floor, and tied down with duct tape.“Hurry home, I think I have hurt him,” she wrote, according to the statement.AdvertisementJoseph later called 911 and claimed Skyler was having a seizure, according to search warrants previously obtained by WGHP.A woman believed to be Jodi is heard in the background saying, “It’s my fault,” the outlet previously reported.Skyler died four days later on Jan.
9 after being removed from life support, with the cause of death being given as a hypoxic-ischemic brain injury as a result of prolonged physical restraint, according to a North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation statement.Complications related to starvation also contributed, with Skyler being malnourished, therefore less ab...