‘Dying’ Mom Allegedly Kills Son, 7, Because She Wanted No One Else To Raise Him

Brooklyn mom Tenika Revell  has been charged with beating her 7-year-old son, Bernard James Revell (pictured), to death with a hammer because she believes she is dying and didn’t want anyone else to raise him after her death, the New York Daily News reports.

Tenika’s longtime boyfriend, Terrance Johnson, believes she killed her only child because she believed she is dying from cancer.

“She loved him so much she didn’t want nobody else to have him,” Terrace Johnson said of his longtime girlfriend Tenika Revell, who killed her son Bernard — bashing his head with a hammer — Friday in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. She took pills to try and kill herself, but survived.

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“She didn’t want her mother or none of them to get Bernard.”

The Tenika, who completed two stints in prison on burglary and robbery charges, was dealing with a number of mental health issues before killing Bernard. Johnson said she also had an “angry side.” But he insists that she showed all of the signs of a good mother. Johnson says that she would buy  toys for the boy, even when she couldn’t pay other bills.