Boy, 12, tortured to death by grandma as the ‘enemy’ after amputation | US | News
James Alex Hurley lived with his grandmother and grandfather and children. (Picture: Gallatin County Sheriff Office)
James Alexander Hurley, who was called “Alex” by those close to him, experienced a significant heart in the hands of his grandmother during his short life.
After the 12 -year -old lad, his father Tommy Tate’s heartbreaking loss, his father’s grandmother Patricia Batts and his wife James Sasser lived. A disaster event passed away in 2018 due to surgical complications in 2018 that Tommy needs various amputations, including both feet.
Understandable, the young boy was ruined. His mother, Alicia, who lives in Texas, took custody of Alex, but it was determined that the child should stay in Montana to complete the school year.
He was well adapted to the educational organization and made friendships. He also built a house with Batts and Sasser.
He looked like the right decision, outward, Reports the mirror.
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However, until the summer of 2019, Alicia has become smooth about Alex, which will communicate through text messages or Facebook Messenger – through phone or percentage conversations. He also claimed that he was very busy to talk constantly.
Anxiously, Alicia tried to bring her son back to Texas to live with him, but according to criminal monthly reports, he quickly met Batts. While Alicia was struggling to reach her son, she was not aware that Wicked Batts had taken Alex from school in September 2019, such as home education.
From this moment on, Alex was rarely detected by everyone beyond the close family circle. Later, the evidence provided by Batts and Sasser’s daughter Madison revealed how the presence was in the house for Alex.
During this period, Madison, who was only a young man, faced charges of his role in tragic conditions, but ultimately received probation in exchange for giving evidence against his parents.
Sasser was sentenced to 100 years of imprisonment for the participation of Alex for his death. (Picture: Mtn News)
Lawyer Elizabeth Montoya, who spoke to the court during the final challenging hearing, explained how Madison observes the ruthless treatment of Madison’s parents to Alex, which includes slapping, kicking and punching. Madison Montoya, who detailed how Madison witnessed Batts and Sasser Alex “drowning and deprived him of love and attention”, said Montoya, “Alex was the enemy. Madison’s parents were generals and other children in the house”.
Alex’s mother, Alicia, suspects that the twisted couple is directed to keep her son in custody because they collect social security payments that need to be directed to the young child after passing.
On February 3, 2020, Alex died in the evenings, and when the emergency services reached the property, they discovered his body on the floor. It was caries with evidence of malnutrition, but the members of the household expressed ignorance about what came to him.
To portray his grandson problematic, Batts claimed the researchers that Alex had harmed himself and heard the sounds and proceeded down after his father’s death. Apparently he hoped that it would explain its violent injuries, but the detectives were not deceived.
Following his prisoners, Batts made a lonely statement: “I regret not being a grandmother Alex should have.” (Picture: Mtn News)
A autopsy revealed that Alex was eaten for a blunt trauma behind his head and that the abuse was found on the phones taken from relatives of accusatory images.
In May 2020, Batts accepted a deliberate murder. In addition, according to NBC Montana, he confessed to the danger of the heavy criminal child because he could not seek medical help for Alex when he was deadly injured and witnessed his relatives by trying to lie to the police.
In August 2023, Batts was sentenced to life imprisonment to kill Alex and received 10 years of additional penalties for other counts. Regional judge, John C.
Brown drew attention to the punishment: “This is a terrible child abuse. It was completely unnecessary and was done with evil.”
Following his prisoners, Batts made a lonely statement: “I regret not being a grandmother Alex should have.”
In another development in 2022, Sasser was sentenced to 100 years in prison for his participation in Alex’s death. Sasser, who made a guilty objection to the deliberate murder, child danger and a witness to tamper with a witness, sentenced Alex to his sentence that he did not protect.
