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Parents Plead Guilty in Independence Towers Death, Receive Five Years of Probation

Their wrongful-death lawsuit over the apartment’s window conditions was dismissed in August.

Overview

  • Moses Lee Bass and Destiny Leeann Randle admitted to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a Class E felony, and were placed on supervised probation starting Monday.
  • A Jackson County judge ordered both to follow family court recommendations and to pay a $46 Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund fee plus court costs.
  • The pair were initially indicted in 2024 on first-degree child endangerment before the case was reduced through the plea.
  • Court records describe a ripped screen, a window that did not lock, and a removable safety pole, with the parents acknowledging complacency and gaps in overnight supervision.
  • Their son, Tidus, 3, died on July 29, 2024, after falling from an eighth-floor window at Independence Towers in Independence, Missouri.