Trial date set for father of 3-year-old Independence boy who fell to death
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - A trial date is scheduled for the father of a 3-year-old boy who fell to his death from a the eighth floor of an Independence apartment building.
The trial for 30-year-old Moses Lee Bass is expected to begin Sept. 29, 2025.
A grand jury indicted Bass and 29-year-old Destiny Leeann Randle for first-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
Court documents accuse Bass and Randle of failing to supervise their son in their apartment at Independence Towers on July 29, the day of the 3-year-old’s death. A window in the apartment allegedly had a damaged screen that the little boy was able to open.
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The boy’s father told investigators he had been walking his dog at the time of the fall while the boy’s mother told police she was in a bedroom in the apartment. Bass itted in court documents that he knew the boy could open the window because he’d thrown toys out of the window before.
Randle is scheduled to be in court again on Dec. 12.
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