I was looking for this in "Weird & Bizarre" but OK. Ha.
Anyway, the plot thickens:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2235648
Father of 3-year-old found dead in Maryland park swing denied custody, said mother ?wasn?t fit? to care for boy
BY Melissa Chan
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 10:58 AM
Updated: Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 4:01 PM
Ji-Aire, 3, was found dead in a Maryland park being pushed in a swing by his mother on Friday. His father said the tragedy could have been avoided.
The disturbed Maryland mother found pushing her dead 3-year-old son in a park swing last week had no business caring for the toddler, the boy's heartbroken father said.
"I'm not saying she is an unfit parent, but at this particular time, she wasn't fit to take care of our son," James Lee told Fox 5 DC.
Ji-Aire, 3, was found dead in a Maryland park being pushed in a swing by his mother on Friday. His father said the tragedy could have been avoided.
The devastated dad had filed for sole custody of Ji-Aire, whom he described as his happy "little man," days before the boy's mother Romechia Simms was discovered pushing his lifeless body in a swing for several hours on Friday.
"It came out of nowhere for me," Lee told NBC Washington.
Lee, who feared Ji-Aire's mother may be suffering from a mental illness, said the tragedy could have been avoided if he had not been denied custody in court.
"I have a stable home for him to be at," he told NBC. "I have a stable roof for him to be under, for him to have the life that he was supposed to have."
Lee said he got a frantic call from Simms two days before the boy was found dead saying he needed to rush to Waldorf, Md., near where her mother lives, to pick the two up.
But she stopped answering his calls later in the day, and Lee was too late, he told reporters.
The 24-year-old Simms has been hospitalized since Friday, said Diane Richardson, spokeswoman for the Charles County Sheriff's Department.
Maryland authorities are awaiting results of the toddler's autopsy before deciding whether to press charges.
The boy's body had no sign of injuries or trauma when he was found in Wills Memorial Park in La Plata, she said.
Ji-Aire?s family has started an
online fund-raising campaign to bury the little boy and give him a ?proper homecoming.?
It has collected almost $4,000 in two days.