911 Call of Murdered 2-Year-Old Boy Released

An extremely distressed Lakewood mother called 911 Friday night when she came home to her Robin Avenue apartment around 9 p.m. and found her son dead.

The released the recording of the call Monday.

The mother of Anthony Dabila, 2, is heard on recording crying while she describes what had happened.

"Oh my God. Oh God. I need an ambulance," she says on the recording. "I just got home from work, and I went to check on my son and he's not breathing ... He's got foam coming out of his mouth and he's not breathing."

The woman said Dabila went down for a nap at around 4:30 p.m. and was last seen awake at 5 p.m.

The dispatcher questioned the time difference between 5 p.m. when he was last seen alive and 9 p.m. when she returned home.

"He laid him down for a nap because he didn't nap earlier," the mother said. 

A 30-year-old Lakewood man, who was babysitting the boy, in connection with the Friday death of the child, who was his neighbor. 

Michael Burton, of 2120 Robin Ave., lived in the apartment next door, according to .

When the dispatcher asked the woman if Dabila had anything to eat that may have caused him to become ill, the boy's mother relayed the question to a man in the room named Michael.

He replied the boy had "Wheaties for breakfast."

Dabila was taken to Lakewood Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The county coroner performed an autopsy Saturday and ruled the toddler's death a homicide.

"All we can establish is that (the boy's death) was caused by blunt impact to the head," said coroner spokesman Powell Caesar, who declined to comment further.

Burton is being held in the Cuyahoga County jail.