Foster mum Jennifer Wilson, 154kg, squashes little Dakota Stevens, 41kg, to death by sitting on him

She was teaching him a lesson — but instead crushed a little boy to death under her 154kg frame.

Dakota Stevens had run away from home after an argument and his foster mum picked him up from a nearby neighbour’s house and brought him back.

But the 10-year-old then went onto the front lawn and threatened to run away again.

So Jennifer Wilson sat on him.

But her 154kg body was way too much for slender, 41kg Dakota to handle.

The little boy screamed while his foster mum sat on his midsection, close to his neck.

Court documents show that when the boy stopped screaming, Ms Wilson thought he was pretending.

“Are you faking?” she can be heard asking Dakota in a 20-second clip taken of a mobile phone of the incident in Indiana in the US.

When the 48-year-old gets no response, she turns him over and finds his eyelids are pale and that he has stopped breathing.

She frantically gets one of her other children to call emergency services while repeatedly shouting his name.

Police said that when they arrived, Dakota was motionless and without a pulse.

They said Wilson, who was also fostering three other children, was “visibly distraught”.

Dakota was flown to a nearby children’s hospital but could not be saved. He was taken off life support after two days.

Wilson pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in October, admitting that she sat on Dakota for five minutes.

She faces six years in prison.