A black mother of three from Houston, Texas, has been accused of killing her four-year-old son by whipping him to death after the boy wet himself in the family car

Vastie Coleman, 27, has been charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury and was ordered held without bond in the Harris County Jail in connection to the death of Kyron Barnes. According to Child Protective Services records, the victims’ two surviving sisters, ages six and eight, said that their mother would routinely thrash them.