A mother beat her son to death with a hammer, and her reasoning is very strange… Click below to read the full story and to find out her reason.
The monster mom who beat her 7-year-old son to death believes she is dying from breast cancer — and didn’t want anyone else to raise her boy, according to her longtime boyfriend.
“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.
“She didn’t want her mother or none of them to get Bernard.â€
Johnson, a newspaper deliveryman, met Revell when Bernard was an infant.
“I raised him,†he told the Daily News before showing off Father’s Day cards from the doomed boy. “She took my boy away from me.â€
About a year after they got together, Revell’s angry side began to emerge, he said. She had done two stints in prison before meeting him after being convicted of attempted robbery and attempted burglary.
“I just took the bitter with the sweet,†Johnson said. “I took a gamble.â€
Revell, 40, took medication for anger management, Johnson said. But her mental health declined rapidly after getting pregnant with his child last year, then having to abort the pregnancy because of her spreading cancer.
“That’s when she started really going downhill,†Johnson said. He speculates Revell may have resumed her crack habit, but insists she was a good mother to Bernard, her only child. He would scold her for buying the boy video games and scooters when she couldn’t pay the bills.
“She’d spoil him rotten,†Johnson said. “She went all out.â€
But he admits she was erratic.
“She never hit this kid,†he said. “She’d curse at him and yell at him.â€
Johnson spoke to Revell on the phone the day she killed her child. “She told me, ‘It’s hot, I’m not going outside. Me and Bernard are going to stay inside,’†he recalled.
He called later in the day, but no one picked up. “She wouldn’t answer the phone,†he said. “That was strange.â€
She called him back about 8:15 p.m. He noticed she was breathing heavily. He asked to chat with the boy and she said he was sleeping. “He’s very energetic,†Johnson said. “He’s not one to be sleeping all the time.â€
When he asked more questions, she grew angry and hung up on him.
Later, he would learn that she had already confessed the crime to her mother in Florida. “Tenika called her mother around 7:30 and told her mother that she killed Bernard and was on her way to killing herself,†Johnson said.
Revell called 911 and calmly confessed just before 11 p.m. Friday, cops said. Johnson didn’t know the boy was dead until the next morning, when he came to visit and saw the news cameras and police tape.
Revell, facing charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, was awaiting arraignment while continuing to be treated at Woodhull Hospital Sunday.
“She took his life,†Johnson said.
“She’s got to live with that for the rest of her life.â€