Connecticut Mom Admits Murdering 6-year-Old Son While Trying To Abandon Her 3 Kids

A Connecticut mother who has been accused of murdering her 6-year-old son and dumping the child's body in the Ohio River pleaded guilty Monday.

Brittany Gosney, 29, of Middletown pleaded guilty to one count of murder in connection with the death of her 6-year-old son, James Hutchinson, and two other counts of child endangering, WLWT 5 reported.

The charges against her stemmed from her attempt to abandon her three children that eventually led to Hutchinson's death in February.

Investigators said that on Feb. 27, Gosney drove her three children to the Rush Run Wildlife area in Preble County to abandon them. When Gosney attempted to leave, Hutchinson grabbed the handle of her car door, according to police.

Gosney then sped off her vehicle and the victim was dragged. When she stopped the vehicle to check on the child, he was found dead, the woman reportedly told police.

The investigators found out that after Hutchinson's death, Gosney put his body back in the car along with her two other children and drove home to Middletown. The next day Gosney and her boyfriend, 42-year-old James Hamilton, threw the child's body into the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. Police could not recover the child's body.

According to the WLWT report, Gosney told the investigators that Hamilton was pressuring her to get rid of her children.

Hamilton has been indicted on three counts each of kidnapping, abduction, endangering children, tampering with evidence, and gross abuse of a corpse. He is scheduled to appear in court next week.

The court has dismissed 13 other charges against Gosney as part of the plea agreement, WHIO TV reported. Her plea agreement will also avoid the jury trial that she was scheduled for next month. As the woman submitted the “guilty plea as charged” agreement in court, she cannot go for appeal.

"We have two living children who have already been through trauma that no child should ever experience, and this guilty plea prevents them from going through further trauma, at least as it is related to a case involving their mother," Kelly Heile, the assistant prosecutor, WLWT reported.

Based on the current charges, Gosney faces sentencing of 15 years to life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 13. According to prosecutor Mike Gmoser, “justice was served.”

"It absolutely is justice. When you have accountability for the principal charge, the most that could have happened was the charge she pled guilty to. That is justice for this child," Gmoser stated.