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PREVIOUS COVERAGE: McKinney toddler allegedly injured by mom's boyfriend
FOX 4's Megan Boyd shares updates on a story about a McKinney toddler who is on life support after being taken to the hospital by his mother's boyfriend. Dawson Zamora's mother, Chelsea Berg, and her boyfriend, Christopher Alexander, are now both facing charges.
McKINNEY, Texas - Text messages reveal a McKinney mother had confronted her boyfriend about her 3-year-old son’s injuries a month before the child was hospitalized with severe brain trauma.
Both Chelsea Berg and her boyfriend, Christopher Alexander, are now facing charges for the 3-year-old Dawson Zamora’s injuries.
The child's biological father is by his side in a Dallas hospital. His father cannot comment publicly on the investigation but provided a heartbreaking update to me this evening. The 3-year-old is in a medically induced coma. There haven't been any improvements.
McKinney Toddler Child Abuse Case
Chelsea Rene Berg, 30 and Christopher Thomas Alexander, 30 (Source: Collin County Jail)
What's new:
A newly released arrest warrant affidavit for Berg shares text messages that investigators found when searching her phone.
On Sept. 9, more than a month before Zamora was hospitalized with severe injuries, Berg allegedly sent Alexander a message blaming him for bruises on Dawson’s face.
"He clearly hit his head when he fell, he has a bruise on his eyebrow and his whole jawline/cheek is bruised. You’re reckless. He has progressively been getting more and more hurt with you!!! Leave me alone!!! I’m not blind. You’re DANGEROUS," she wrote, according to the affidavit.
Additional text messages mentioned Dawson suffered new bruises while staying home from school to heal from existing injuries.
Berg said she’d overlooked a bruise on the little boy’s genitals because "it could have happened at school."
"1000000% serious. You bruise him, hurt him, and cause damage every single time you are along with him. There hasn’t been a single time you’ve been along with him where he hasn’t been hurt," she wrote on Sept. 18, according to the affidavit.
The backstory:
According to police documents, Alexander brought Dawson to the hospital on Oct. 14. He said he found the toddler unresponsive after he heard a "thud."
But the hospital staff said the injuries were inconsistent with Alexander’s explanation. They notified police.
Hospital staff reported that Dawson's injuries included severe brain trauma, including bleeding in the brain, bruising in various states of healing over his entire body, wounds to his chest and stomach, and anal trauma.
Alexander got an attorney at the hospital and refused to speak with police. Police said Berg was adamant that her son did not have injuries when she left for work and left him in Alexander's care.
McKinney toddler on life support, mother and her boyfriend arrested
A McKinney mother and her boyfriend face charges after her 3-year-old son was hospitalized with severe injuries.
Both adults were arrested on Oct. 16.
What's next:
Alexander is being held in the Collin County Jail on charges of injury to a child, stalking and tamper/fabricate evidence with intent to impair the investigation. His bond is set at a combined $210,000.
Berg was charged with injury to a child. She bonded out of jail the same day she was booked, according to jail records. Her bond was set at $100,000. Berg has a court hearing later this week, for a motion to amend her bond conditions. Right now, she cannot be near her son but she has been fighting to see him in the hospital.
Dawson is believed to still be in the hospital on life support.
The Source: The information in this story comes from an arrest warrant affidavit for Chelsea Berg, as well as past news coverage.