Mom Of Murdered Baby Speaks Out

Mom Of Murdered Baby Speaks Out
WITN News
May 31, 2013

The mother of a 10 month baby that died after police say his father choked him to death is now speaking out for the first time to WITN.

Amber Hewitt is the mother of Aidyn Burton of Jacksonville. She says the baby's father, a Camp Lejeune Marine, killed himself days after the child's murder.

Now Hewitt says she wants answers into why police didn't arrest the father before it was too late. "For 23 years I searched for my purpose in this world, so when I held that little boy in my arms I knew what my purpose was, and now I'm trying to find it again," Hewitt told us from her new home in Florida.

Back in February she lived in Jacksonville with her son. The child's father, Corporal Rodney Burton who everyone called "Will" didn't take care of his son until he was 9 months old, according to Hewitt.

One day the mother's sister and brother-in-law were babysiting while she was at work. Burton came over.

"I though that he actually was trying to be involved with his son," said Hewitt.

But according to the autopsy, a baby wipe was stuffed in the baby's mouth, suffocating him. After being questioned by police, Burton left Jacksonville and was found at a home in Craven County with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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