Caregiver Who Fatally Beat, Starved NYC Boy Gets 22 Years to Life in Prison

The caregiver who fatally beat and starved a 4-year-old New York City boy was sentenced Friday to 22 years to life behind bars.

Kryzie King was sentenced to the prison term a month after she pleaded guilty in the death of Myls Dobson. Dobson was found unconscious in King's apartment in December 2013, and medical examiners ruled Myls died of child abuse, including dehydration.

King was caring for Dobson while his father was jailed. His mother had lost custody, but was in court clutching Dobson's teddy bear as the boy's family attended King's sentencing hearing.

King admitted to repeatedly assaulting the child, including binding his hands and feet, striking him with an electrical cord and burning him with a hot toaster oven rack.

She was sentenced to prison stints on nine charges, including second-degree murder. Each sentence will be served concurrently.

Dobson's grandparents said Friday they still couldn't understand why Dobson was tortured and killed.

"I don't rest, I go to sleep and I wake up and all I can see is the picture that we saw -- Myls' little face at the coroner's office," said Dobson's grandmother, Faye Bennett.

The case spurred changes at the city's child welfare agency.

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