Three babysitters watched as boy, 3, died from cruel punishment called 'The Wrap' - where he suffocated after being tied up in SIX blankets

Three babysitters watched as a three-year-old boy died in a cruel punishment called 'The Wrap' - where he suffocated after being tightly covered in blanket. Michael Lee McMullen died after being wrapped in six layers of blankets at the Florida home he was living in. Manslaughter charges were filed against Donella Trainor, 45; Douglas Garrigus, 21; and the child's grandmother, Gale Watkins, 56, according to a Lee County Sheriff's lieutenant. Trainor, a friend of the boy's grandmother, told investigators she had disciplined her own grandchildren that way, using a technique all three adults knew as 'the wrap,' Lieutenant Larry King said.

He said she pinned the boy's arms to his side and rolled him in a king-sized blanket. 'There were six layers of cloth over this child. The loose ends would be folded over his head and feet and tied into a knot, all in an effort to prevent the child from moving,' King said. 'You could use a mummy reference.' The boy, Michael Lee McMullen, screamed and pleaded to be released as Trainor wrapped him and put him in his crib for a nap on Saturday, the sheriff's report said. The boy's grandmother, and his stepfather, Garrigus, checked on him at different times as he cried and struggled, the report said.

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