A mother in Illinois has confessed to murdering her 7-year-old son, with court documents outlining how the boy was constantly in fear of being suffocated by the woman — telling his grandmother , "Mama is going to kill me." The child said his mom tried "several times" to hold pillows and couch cushions over his head while he was playing and sleeping before his death in 2021.

"I can't breathe grandma, she won't let me breathe," Nathaniel Burton told his paternal grandmother about his mom, Sarah Safranek, and her repeated attempts to suffocate him, according to court documents and Ogle County prosecutors.

Safranek, 38, of Oregon, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the February 2021 suffocation death of her son, local CBS affiliate WIF

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