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.