A mother in Minnesota is heading to prison for murdering her 23-month-old son by slamming his head repeatedly into a bedroom wall and then lying to police about what happened, claiming he was run over by his father — who happened to have his car in the shop at the time.

“She took my baby’s life,” said Robert Ortez, father of Aaryan, who was killed by his mom Larena Jackson in August 2023. “I still don’t know, to this day, what really happened because she isn’t saying anything,” Ortez told Valley News Live. “I’m still trying to figure out why she did it. I don’t know why[.]”

A Wisconsin man is in custody after allegedly throwing an 8-month-old baby boy against a wall in a Milwaukee home.

Jalin A. White, who according to court records is 20 years old, is facing charges of child abuse with great bodily harm and child neglect. He’s at the Milwaukee County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

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Prosecutors described the alleged abuse during White’s first appearance in front of Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Andrea Bolender.

“Your statement (was) he hit the wall hard. You heard the bang of the wall,” Bolender told White, according to a courtroom report from local ABC affiliate WISN.

The child is at the hospital but is not expected to survive, authorities say.

A 47-year-old day care employee in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly picking up a 2-year-old in her care and throwing the child into a wall “like a piece of luggage.”

Kristie Kovarcik was taken into custody late last month and charged with one count of second-degree reckless endangerment and one count of risk of injury to a minor, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the City of Middletown Police Department, detectives with the department’s Special Investigations Unit responded on Jan. 12 to a report of a teacher assaulting a toddler at the Town & Country Early Learning Center in the 100 block of South Main Street. The day care facility is about 15 miles south of Hartford, Connecticut.

Authorities said that the facility notified the victim’s parents about the incident and invited them to watch internal surveillance footage showing what happened. After watching the tape, the parents immediately went to the police station to file a report and request that Kovarcik be arrested.

One of the victim’s guardians described the surveillance footage to investigators, saying that Kovarcik walked over to the toddler, grabbed the child by the shirt with both hands and then “launch[ed] the victim through the air like a piece of luggage,” Greenwich Time reported.

Detectives also viewed the surveillance footage of the alleged incident, saying it showed that Kovarcik “picked up the minor child and tossed the child to the side,” per the release.

“The child’s head then struck a nearby wall, causing a minor contusion above his/her right eye. The Director of the facility heard a commotion and pulled up the surveillance camera for Kovarcik’s room,” police wrote. “She witnessed Kovarcik toss the child aside and heard the child’s head strike the wall. The Director entered the room and removed the child. She then reported the incident to the parents and DCF as required.”