Boyfriend Broke Kid's Jaw Before House of Horrors Discovery

[Jilly_in_VA]

A Texas man charged with felony murder for allegedly beating his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death—then abandoning the victim’s three young brothers to fend for themselves in a filthy home alongside the decaying corpse—had subjected the children to regular physical abuse, breaking the middle child’s jaw in recent weeks, police said Wednesday.

Brian Ward Coulter, 31, killed the boy, Kendrick Lee, with his fists and feet around Thanksgiving 2020, according to a criminal complaint filed in Harris County District Court. Initial reports listed Kendrick’s age as 9, but authorities later said he was 8.

Coulter and the kids’ mom, Gloria Yvette Williams, 35, left the “dry… skeletal remains” behind in the Houston-area apartment they shared with the four kids, two of whom are believed to be on the autism spectrum, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said at a press conference.

The surviving brothers, aged 7, 10, and 15, were only rescued from the “deplorable” home on Sunday after the 15-year-old reportedly texted his mom to say he couldn’t take it anymore, then called 911.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/boyfriend-brian-coulter-broke-kids-jaw-weeks-before-houston-house-of-horrors-discovery-cops-say?ref=home
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It is even worse than you think. And I wonder if the kids are truly ASD, or just so cowed by abuse that people think they are......

[dalton99a]

1. A brave warrior:

[Aristus]

2. Yeah, murdering children.

Real hero...

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Piece of shit

better get life in prison.

[IowaGuy]

13. That "WARROR" ink ain't going impress any of his fellow inmates (nt)

[BlueStater]

23. Fuck this piece of shit.

We’ll see how much of a “warrior” he is in prison when he’s no longer dealing with children.

[a kennedy]

6. Of course they did.......I can't get the relationship between them....

I am reminded though of the mother that killed her two sons and said a black man had done it so she could be with her boyfriend. What ever happened to her, have forgotten details.

[Heartstrings]

7. Susan Smith?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith

[a kennedy]

9. Yes, yes, that's her.......thanks.

[Heartstrings]

11. Sure.....my pleasure!

[MagickMuffin]

14. This from the wiki: funny how she has her very own wiki page, she's famous

Smith was incarcerated in the Administrative Segregation Unit in the Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

During Smith's incarceration at the Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution, two correctional officers, Lieutenant Houston Cagle and Captain Alfred R. Rowe Jr., were charged after having sex with her. Consequently, she was moved to the Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood.

She will be eligible for parole in November 2024.

[Judi Lynn]

5. So much suffering in such short times on earth. The oldest one tried to protect the smaller ones.

Hoping so much some strong love and caring can bring these young boys back to health, to life, and that they never have to see the monsters ever again. They should stay together. They need a miracle worker to help them heal.

[malaise]

12. I hope the mother and her boyfriend die in prison

That is all

[Duppers]

18. Indeed!

With an occasional beating by inmates.

[Wingus Dingus]

8. This is what I suspected earlier--the boy was killed and the mother/boyfriend took off.

What a sick, sad situation. These sub-humans better never see the light of day again.

[spanone]

10. Warrior my ass. Lock him up for life and then some.

[MagickMuffin]

15. I'm guessing the sex WAS that good

Good lord may they never step foot outside the prison walls.


I pray the children can overcome this trauma, however, it is never going to go away. They will live with this the rest of their lives, but hopefully they can heal with all this.

[11 Bravo]

16. Well, I'll go ahead and say it.

Mom does not sound blameless in this report.
The boyfriend is clearly a monster, and deserves whatever the legal system can throw at him. And if Mom was terrorized and cowed into submission by the abusive asshole, then that changes everything.
But this story doesn't say that.
And Moms can be monsters too.

[Jilly_in_VA]

17. True. And

she may have been abused by him and I'm guessing she was and that's why she was released by the cops initially. I'm not arguing that she is blameless, but saying that men who abuse children usually abuse their partners too.

[womanofthehills]

20. Mom and the boyfriend moved to an apartment 25 min from kids

Kids lived alone. Mom occasionally dropped off junk food. She abandoned her kids and was posting on Facebook about all the jewelry her boyfriend was buying her while the kids were starving and living in filth with no furniture and their dead brother.

[Demovictory9]

21. AND... after arrest and release, both were at library googling news articles about themselves

doesn't seem like a loving mom

[Straw Man]

19. Coulter?

I wonder if he's related to Ann.

[Dorian Gray]

22. This story is so horrifying

that man is a literal monster, and I don't know how these three poor boys will come back from this to live a normal functioning life.

They've experienced more pain in this life than anyone their ages should, and as a society we need to do right by them. And I don't even know how to start making up for the pain they've gone through.