‘What does justice look like?’: Mom charged with killing newborn gets probation after claiming older child inflicted fatal injuries

Tattiyona Wilson mugshot (LVMPD) and exiting court last week (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Tattiyona Wilson mug shot (LVMPD) and exiting court last week (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A 29-year-old mother in Nevada will not spend any additional time in prison after initially being charged with the murder of her 2-month-old son, who died with multiple fractures in his skull and a “foreign object” in his mouth more than three years ago.

Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones last week ordered Tattiyona Wilson to serve a sentence of three years on probation for her role in the September 2020 death of young Xaden Jackson, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Wilson was initially arrested in October 2021 and charged with one count of open murder and three counts of child abuse, with authorities alleging that she caused the fatal injuries to her son. An autopsy conducted by the Clark County Coroner’s Office on Sept. 28, 2020, determined that the child’s death was a homicide resulting from blunt force trauma consistent with abuse. The infant suffered three separate skull fractures, one of which authorities said appeared to have been inflicted within 72 hours of his death.

Jones handed down the sentence after Wilson pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse resulting in death.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Dena Rinetti told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the seemingly lenient plea deal and sentence were the result of “issues with the case.” Specifically, Rinetti told the newspaper that a medical examiner who testified during Wilson’s preliminary hearing told the court that the victim’s fatal head injuries could have been the result of a single blow as opposed to being struck multiple times.

That testimony, according to Wilson’s public defender Edward Kane, bolstered his client’s claim that one of her other young children inflicted the head injury on Xaden.

“The fact that the other child was responsible for this wasn’t something that was dreamed up by my client and her husband at a later date,” Kane said during last Thursday’s sentencing hearing, per the Review-Journal. “It was mentioned by both of them at their very first interview.”

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