Pregnant mom’s life ends at hands of her son

Sisters Nita Moseley (left) and Betty Simons

(1 of 5) “My sister, Nita, and I grew up in an abusive home. We were both in and out of the system, she more than I. She went to the Chimney Rock in Houston when she was 14. It’s a CPS placement for adolescent teens. A lot of recruitment goes on there. That’s how she met her trafficker. She ended up being trafficked from age 14 to 21. She also got pregnant by one of her traffickers, and had a child at 17.

“When she finally got out, there was this whole process to begin healing and try to move on. Back then, people would look at her as just this teenage prostitute with a pimp. Human trafficking wasn’t really talked about. It didn’t have the platform it has now. There wasn’t a lot of help for her. There wasn’t a lot of hope. So she did go through some drug addiction and trying to heal herself.

“She lost custody of her son. He went to our abusers and then to his father, who was her trafficker. It was a bad situation. But my sister fought tooth and nail for years to get her son back. She eventually did in December 2014. He was 14.

“Having lived with our abusers, he went through abuse himself. And because he was with his father, the trafficker, he grew up not really respecting his mother. When Nita got her son, he was doing drugs. He was out of control. He was violent. But all she wanted was to help him, to get him back on track.

“In September 2015, Nita was 17 weeks pregnant. Her son had been back with her for about nine months when one day, she asked him to help her paint a cabinet. That led to an argument. He ended up stabbing her 57 times. She survived the attack, so he wrapped an electrical cord around her throat and strangled her. Her unborn child also died.”

— Betty Simons

Nita Marie Moseley died on Sept. 26, 2015, at age 33.

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6 Responses

  1. Bert Stevenson says:

    If his father was his mother’s trafficker, why has he not been arrested? He lived in Houston and gave interviews to local news?

  2. Avylina says:

    This is so confusing! I just watched the episode and she said her sister got Chance back when he was 10? She never mentioned him being on drugs during the episode. I have also read that, though she was pregnant, Nita and Chance were at a meth house for FIVE hours on the day she died. The sister said he lived with their mother and step dad (adopted?) until he reached the age of ten. This story isn’t adding up. Surely there were other people in their lives that have a completely different version than the one her sister is telling. She seems to change her story every time she tells it.

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