‘Killer babysitter battered toddler so badly his eyes changed color’
Matthew Bolinski was battered to death after his mother left him off with a babysitter to go to work. That sitter, Hunter Jones, now stands accused of his murder
A two year-old boy’s eyes changed color after he was allegedly beaten to death by his babysitter, the youngster’s grieving mother said.
Matthew Bolinski’s mother Katherine Bolinski dropped the toddler off at the home of alleged killer Hunter Jones, 23, to go to work in March.
But the next time she saw Matthew he was dead in a morgue, with Katherine, of Kenosha in Wisconsin, recalling: ‘His eyes went from a deep blue to really, really light blue.
‘Bruises all over his face. I lost it. I just couldn’t hold it back.’
Jones was charged with Matthew’s first-degree murder last week, and is due in court Friday morning.
Katherine, who was a single mother, said she is so devastated by her son’s death she still pretends ‘like he’s sleeping in the othe room,’ to help her cope.
She told Fox6: ‘Now it’s just like an ongoing nightmare of waking up and there are moments where I just wish he could be with me still.’
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Katherine has filled a bedroom in her apartment with a toy fire truck, trains and dinosaurs that belonged to Matthew – next to an urn containing the youngster’s ashes.
Recalling her final memory of Matthew, Katherine said: ‘That day I dropped him off, he threw a fit like no other fit and I obviously regret having to do that now because of the outcome, but that’s my last memory of him alive.’
Court documents say Matthew had injuries to his neck and head after being killed.
They were not present when his mom dropped him off at the unlicensed day care earlier that day, which was run by Hunter and his wife.
She added: ‘I’m confused. I’m hurt. I’m angry…
‘That was my life. My son was my life.
‘My life didn’t start until I had my son and now I feel like I don’t even know what’s going on.
‘How this is even happening and how this is even my reality.’