This is one of the worst cases i’ve ever heard it is up there with some of the most depraved and barbaric things i’ve ever heard done to a young person over a hundred of you have requested this case over a hundred so get ready cause this one’s bad on december 13 2019 9-1-1 dispatchers received a disturbing phone call from a dayton ohio father named al-mudahan mclain regarding his son who was allegedly unresponsive rather than focusing on his son’s condition mclean spent most of the call lamenting that dakota was allegedly
disobedient and how difficult it was to be a parent at one point during the call when mclean was instructed to initiate cpr he could be heard audibly retching and then complained quote it smells real rotten inside of his stomach end quote upon arrival at mclean’s 1934 kensington drive home in dayton ohio paramedics found him waiting at the door and his son ten-year-old dakota collins battered and bruised from head to toe lying alone in unresponsive on the living room floor dayton police officer evans also responded as paramedics tended to dakota
to allow the medics to work without distraction officer evans engaged maclean in conversation on the porch during which mclean continued to rant and rave about his uncivilized and uncontrollable son although paramedics focused on attempts to resuscitate dakota the evidence of neglect and harm done to him were clearly present all over his body when the paramedics indicated that dakota had passed away and that there was nothing more that could be done to save him mclean’s response to the news of the death of his own son was quote
alright i tried to get you guys here as fast as i could end quote dakota was transported to the hospital for further examination upon arrival dr leicher an expert in pediatrics specializing in ca had an opportunity to externally examine his battered remains dr liker noted hundreds of lacerations abrasions and bruises to dakota’s head scalp face mouth including the inside of it his neck his chest his abdomen arms hands legs and feet basically everywhere on his body patterned abrasions were noted on his chest as well as his abdomen and legs
older scars were seen on his torso and extremities injuries lacerations and bruising were also visible externally in his private areas according to dr leicher the extent and nature of the injuries were not consistent with accident or self-infliction they were the result of severe physical harm on numerous occasions over a sustained period of time many of the injuries were in areas that are very difficult to bruise dr leicher noted that many of the injuries were located in areas often considered to be defensive locations as
they are the areas of the body such as the back of the arms and posterior of the body that are exposed when one tries to protect themselves from strikes she also noticed evidence of prior rib fractures that were not visible in dakota’s medical records dr leicher also noted pruning on dakota’s hands like one would note if they’ve been in water for too long as disturbing as the external presentation of dakota’s injuries were it was the internal examination performed by deputy coroner dr brian casto that told the true depth and
extent of the harm inflicted on dakota the autopsy confirmed extensive injuries abrasions and contusions to the head torso and extremities evidence of fresh injuries as well as old injuries were both present on dakota with respect to dakota’s head dr casto found even more injuries as the bruising was hidden in his hair external autopsy photos show bruising around dakota’s right forehead right chin inside the upper and lower lip and in the left nasal opening the internal examination explored the depth and gravity of those
injuries when dakota’s scalp was peeled back deep bruising was observed in all areas of the head external contusions in patekia which are pin-sized red spots due to bleeding were noted on dakota’s chest an internal examination revealed internal bruising to his stomach dakota’s backside also showed severe external and internal injuries there was severe pulmonary edema which is fluid in the lungs and they concluded that it was related to prolonged submersion in water dr casto also observed fractures of numerous ribs dakota’s digestive system
was also examined and what was found was shocking his stomach had contents that were a tan yellow puree type consistency which appeared identical in color and consistency to that of human waste an external examination of dakota’s backside and the back of his legs showed healed scars and fresh bruising branding was also found on dakota’s back due to its location it would have been nearly impossible for dakota to have done this himself however the internal examination was most telling relating to the trauma of these injuries the
entirety of his backside all the way to the bone was bruised and swollen with a significant injury to his private areas observed were two half-inch lacerations internal examination showed the depth and damage of this injury the internal examination of dakota’s pelvic area revealed an abundance of blood associated with the injury the most significant injury as it related to dakota’s death was not even visible externally it was severe bruising to the back of the neck internal examination of this area revealed deep bruising through all the
layers of neck muscle directly over the spine dr casto described this bruising as the type of injury typically only observed in catastrophic events such as severe car accidents dr casto ruled the cause of death for ten-year-old dakota collins as blunt force trauma combined with compressive asphyxia and water submersion with the manner of death listed as homicide while dakota was examined law enforcement remained at the kensington address with his father al-mudahan mclain shortly after dakota’s remains were transported
mclean’s partner amanda hines and her sister jennifer ebert returned to the residence with a three-year-old who was later determined to be maclean’s brother although mclean initially maintained that just he and dakota lived at the kensington residence it was later confirmed that he heinz ebert dakota and the three-year-old all live there when police arrived they originally stayed on the ground level of the home however they were eventually given permission to search the entire residence the ground floor was furnished there was running
water and food in the refrigerator there appeared to be a security system as the tv in the living room showed live video of the outside family photos and photos of pets were hung on the walls throughout the home however there were absolutely no photos of dakota there was a bedroom that belonged to mclean and hines along with a mudroom that had been converted into a spare bedroom for ebert there was also a bedroom consistent with the needs of a three-year-old with age-appropriate toys and clothing but there was no room set
up for dakota no age-appropriate toys school books or clothing for a 10 year olds nor was there a bedroom for dakota set up in the basement only a room for the dogs with crates and a dirty cement floor littered with excrement in the living room there was a door that led to the attic an area that authorities soon learned to be where dakota was being kept as the detectives went up the stairs they noticed an overwhelming smell of human waste due to their not being a light source in the attic they had to use flashlights to further investigate
the attic was devoid of any personal effects aside from a broken chair two legs from the broken chair were recovered downstairs one stuck behind the television and the other in a laundry basket outside the bathroom there were no clothes no books no toys only filth excrement and insects deep inside of the attic was another room secured with a lock when the room was unlocked detectives found a bloody tarp in a filthy lawn chair which they discovered was dakota’s bedding when he was permitted to have it detectives also
found a dismantled video camera that had been used by the three adults to watch dakota which per hines had been disconnected by maclean after dakota became unresponsive but before he called 9-1-1 dakota originally did have a bedroom in the home however he lost the room after mclean hines took custody of mclean’s three-year-old brother and dakota was sent to the attic after leaving the kensington residence the investigation continued including interviews of the residents teachers and other individuals as well as review of
the evidence gathered as the details unfolded it became clear that the only thing more horrific than the facts of dakota’s death were conditions he was made to live in at the hands of his father his father’s partner and her sister on january 5th 2015 dakota was enrolled at horace mann elementary school at the age of seven although they were unsure of dakota’s specific needs his teachers recognized that he could benefit from a little help although he did not have issues at school with proper restroom usage he was sent to school daily
smelling of human waste he was also sent to school with embarrassing and potentially painful haircuts making him vulnerable to ridicule in addition to the ridicule he already faced from the odor the school tried their very best to help with dakota providing him with donated clothing to wear during the day while they washed his soiled ones teachers sent dakota to the school nurse who would assist him with these issues when notified of what was going on mclean refused assistance and was enraged with staff interventions
further demanding that the school nurse not see dakota for any reason at all ebert noted that mclean would give dakota weird haircuts knowing that would cause him ridicule heinz noted in teachers confirmed that mclean wanted daily updates from teachers heinz would get those reports and then relay them to mclean if there were anything but glowing unbeknownst to his teachers it would result in severe discipline for dakota based on the account of heinz dakota was ordered to stand in the living room and hold a loaded book bag
most days of the week from the time he got home from school until it was bedtime this was dakota’s life on weekends if dakota did not have a good report card he would be made to stand in this position in the living room for the entire day dakota was an active and rambunctious youth so it was no surprise that he didn’t receive a perfect report from the school daily however because of this dakota’s life was a living hell when he was at home mclean was furious with horace mann elementary and blamed the school for repeatedly sending cps to his
house however when cps did come the family was prepared mclean and heinz instructed ebert and dakota on how to act when the door was knocked on which was to stay behind a locked door and not be heard then mclean and heinz would schedule a time for cps to return mclean had dakota prepared to answer their questions he was to tell them nothing and act perfectly happy cps had a host of resources to offer the family including connecting them to medical including connecting them to medical or psychological services sorry about
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homeschooling dakota by then dakota was largely confined to the attic for the majority of every single day originally dakota had full reign of the entire attic however in november of 2018 he allegedly launched himself through a window leaving mclean and hines no other option but to take him to the hospital at that time there was not an allegation of ca on record and social workers and doctors treated dakota in the presence of mclean and hines who again represented herself as a mother figure to dakota during that visit
psychological counseling was recommended as part of an aftercare plan however the family did not follow through with making appointments when social workers called mclean and heinz to assist in setting up that appointment that help was declined too during this time mclean did call the juvenile court to inquire about services for juveniles under the age of 10.
the court does in fact have a program to offer services to families struggling with mental health or behavioral issues however when mclean learned it was therapeutic help and would not result in dakota being locked up he declined that assistance too after his visit to the hospital dakota was moved to the basement while mclean walled off the windows in the attic when dakota returned to his attic confinement it was now a smaller area deprived of external light afterwards mclean and heinz made sure dakota was locked up in the attic to
avoid his escape in the attic dakota was deprived of clothing and by the time of his death ebert confirmed that all of his clothes had been thrown out yet despite this if dakota came down to use the restroom without his clothes he would be subject to discipline his father only allowed dakota to use the restroom at night after mclean’s brother went to bed and accused him of trying to show off his unclothed body to maclaine’s three-year-old brother to further humiliate him mclean began to call him slurs and would refer to him by
using girls names once confined to the attic dakota spent all day every day in painful poses created by mclean all three adults watched him from the comfort of their living room television they had installed a camera to monitor him if dakota moved out of these horrific poses ebert or heinz would advise mclean of the movement so he could beat dakota for disregarding the rules an ipad recovered from the home had images of dakota in these excruciating positions he was made to stand with no clothes on in the dark attic bent over so that his
hands were touching the floor he was to hold this pose from when he woke till the early hours of the morning but the details surrounding the harm of dakota only got worse as mclean spoke to 911 dispatchers as well as officer evans and detectives he repeated a theme about how dakota would not stop eating his own waste however mclean failed to mention that it was he that physically made dakota perform this dehumanizing act per ebert and later confirmed by heinz it started as a disciplinary action handed down by
mclean mclean became enraged that dakota who was confined to the attic without access to a bathroom had no choice but to use the floor mclean commanded dakota to eat his own wastes and when dakota refused mclean physically made him do so dakota tried to refuse but mclean made sure that he had no escape after that dakota knew that he was expected to do this or face further suffering the last hours of dakota’s life were detailed by heinz and ebert mclean had been out drinking and when he came home he took his anger
out on dakota ebert from another room heard dakota crying and saying no more heinz dozed off on the couch and woke to maclean punching dakota hard in his stomach consistent with the internal bruising visible at autopsy the next morning before the three-year-old woke up ebert called for dakota to come down to use the restroom dakota was walking but he was holding on to the walls he would wobble and fall and then stand back up mclean’s response was to elbow dakota hard in the back and order him back upstairs once back upstairs mcclane gave
instructions to put away his folding chair and perform his disciplined pose because dakota did not move fast enough mclean decided to take things further as dakota laid down in his stomach mclean stood on his back forcing all of his weight even reaching to the ceiling to push down extra hard on dakota’s body crushing him this is a man that’s over 200 pounds after this mclean again had dakota stand in the same pose and went downstairs to watch tv with ebert in the three-year-old all the while yelling up at dakota calling him a mama’s girl as
well as slurs that we cannot say here maclean then took a bottle of hot sauce up to pour on dakota’s backside mclean readily admitted that pouring hot sauce on dakota’s private areas was something that he did frequently even daily in the last weeks of his life according to ebert he had called it one of his parenting tools still not satisfied that dakota was sufficiently compliant mclean threw him around some more grabbed him by the ears and dragged him down the steps he took dakota into the bathroom and told him to
clean his shorts when dakota again did not move fast enough he was told to move faster or he was going to drown ebert from the living room then heard splashing and dakota gasping for air mcclain took dakota back upstairs and from the monitor ebert could see him laying on the lawn chair in the fetal position as mclean stood behind him while mclean was standing behind dakota ebert could see him making a repetitive motion with his hands mclean’s arm was going back and forth by dakota’s rear ends and ebert thought maclean could
have been using the hot sauce but when he came back downstairs he tossed the chair leg that he apparently used on dakota behind the dresser mclean admitted during his interviews that the chair leg had damaged dakota’s insides but he denied that he was the one that shoved it in there he tried to explain the injury was self-inflicted by telling detectives that he saw dakota stick it inside himself he went on to describe asking dakota to pull it out mclean later told detectives quote that’s the kind of stuff he was
into end quote before quickly assuring detectives without them asking any questions about this that mclean himself was very straight finally mclean changed the story to dakota fighting to keep the chair leg inside of him and that he had to wrestle him to get it out mclean claimed that he had took him to the tub to clean him up but saw the injury was not too bad which was wholly inconsistent with the actual injury inflicted to dakota per his autopsy after mclean came back downstairs and discarded the chair leg
dakota never made another sound he no longer would have to incur the wrath of his caretaker all adults in the home were arrested and charged in dakota’s death on december 14th while in the police cruiser mclean again only seemed concerned for himself and the conviction he was likely to receive not about the death of his son mclean asked the officer quote you can get the death penalty though right end quote to which the officer responded that’s up to the prosecutors that’s not up to us mclean’s concerns about the
death penalty did not end up playing a role in his case prosecutors said they charged mclean with all possible charges including homicide however surprisingly none of the charges carry death penalty specifications dakota’s father al-mudahan mclain pled guilty to sa and endangering the welfare of a minor he was sentenced to 51 years to life in prison and will need to register as a tier 3 offender mclean’s girlfriend amanda hines was then sentenced to 22 to 27 and a half years in prison for her role in dakota’s death heinz and her
sister jennifer ebert pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and multiple counts of endangering the welfare of a minor ebert was sentenced to eight years in prison for her role all three defendants received credit for time served which is more than 600 days for each of them mclean will be in his 80s before he is eligible for parole one might be asking where was dakota’s mother when all of this was happening well in 2008 his biological mother robin collins lost custody of him in a dane county family court after harming him
when he was still a baby and went to jail on additional charges a person can only call and tell you so much of you not doing anything that they feel like them calling isn’t doing anything if they called 17 times under not even including the times that i’ve called then and nobody’s being done or maybe they’re thinking oh maybe they investigated and i don’t and there’s nothing going on or maybe i’m just you know thinking too much of it or maybe there’s something else and maybe that’s what happened after spending some time in foster care
dakota was eventually awarded to his father mcclain with full custody in 2013. in 2014 mclean got permission from the judge to lead the state for pennsylvania instead of doing so he went to dayton purchased a house and dakota’s mother and grandmother were unable to track him down but mclean already had a criminal history at the time he had pled guilty to a misdemeanor for beating and choking a man three days after the custody decision he was charged with beating heinz with a metal pole those charges were dismissed when heinz decided to not
cooperate with the police allegedly family court judges who are constantly processing custody and divorce cases aren’t required to check the addresses or follow up on moves in most instances it’s not legally part of a court’s role to follow up on address changes out of state if cps was involved where records would be off limits to the public it would be cps that would be responsible for checking on those cases and ensuring the right case information was passed to the state where the family moved but privacy laws mean it’s not known if cps
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us that has been supporting us that gave us well wishes and gave us suggestions for chitin’s care yes thank you so much if he even had an idea just how many people out there were rooting for him he would have loved you all and i’m sure he does somewhere out there please enjoy these pictures of little cayenne in the prime of his life uh during this outro the kite and buy outro always felt like a victory every week because it symbolized another week that we could have kitten with us when our vet told us that he wasn’t going to make
it to thanksgiving of 2021 but this week will be the last weekend we have the kite and buy outro i don’t know if anything will be replacing it but it doesn’t feel right doing it now that he’s gone again thank you all for the support and thank you all for the condolences that you left on the community post until next week we love you we love you bye bye i don’t know if hers is still there or kited i don’t know if hers is still there kitan [Music] i don’t know of her you might need to just pick him up for a second and why do you insist on doing this
constantly it’s either this or stand on my desk can’t even see you on the camera just blend it okay come here model for the camera oh some water here you can plant it if you wanna okay i
