Toddler 'tortured to death by mother after pulling TV off the dresser'

Rhionna Nichols, 20, claimed to have shaken one-year-old Viston last Thursday
But he was rushed to hospital with a fractured skull, collarbone, ribs and pelvis
Viston's relatives say Nichols attacked him after he pulled over a flat-screen TV
Viston died Saturday and Nichols has been charged with murder and child abuse

Rhionna Nichols, 20, was charged with felony murder and first degree child abuse and torture on Monday in Wayne County

A one-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death by his mother last week after he pulled a TV off a table.

Rhionna Nichols, 20, claimed to have shaken one-year-old Viston and hit him with a slipper when medics rushed to her Detroit home last Thursday.

But the child is understood to have been taken into intensive care with a fractured skull, collarbone, ribs and pelvis.

Police have not confirmed details after Viston died on Saturday but his family have revealed that Nichols allegedly flew into a rage over a fallen flat-screen TV and attacked the boy.

Nichols was charged with felony murder and first degree child abuse and torture on Monday in Wayne County.

'It's difficult to really know what to do right now just to think of the fact that I'll never be able to hold my nephew again the same way,' Viston's paternal aunt Kenya Stevenson told Fox.

'I can't imagine what my nephew had to go through.'

Pictures on social media showed the lifeless boy with tubes coming out of his body being held by a family member.

One-year-old Viston is understood to have been taken into intensive care with a fractured skull, collarbone, ribs and pelvis

One of Viston's relatives wrote on Facebook: 'Y'all Just Understand How F***ed Up This Is He Is Only 1 Years Old He Not Supposed to have all them tubes coming out of him like…

'GET YO REST BABY V IM SO SORRY THAT SICK B***H DID THAT TO U NOOO.'

His father was to upset to speak to the media.

A GoFundMe page has been created to raise money for the boy's funeral.

One donor, Patrick Debolt who gave $100, wrote: 'I fostered rianna (sic) for 3 years. She returned to her mother and was abused. Later we found her and viston and would watch him on the weekends.

'Rianna started back with the drug use and would text us she needed money all the time. She wouldn't ask for us to watch him. She just wanted money.

'We would pray for them. But we are so saddened over this. So very sad. Viston was such a happy baby. We have been crying all day..... most people will look at rianna as a monster..... but I remember a sweet little girl that cried and screamed when they gave her back to her mother.

'She said daddy pat I love you please. Please I want to live with you and momma dawn..... I love viston and rianna so very much. God have mercy on your soul rianna. My sadness is so heavy. That poor sweet boy. Lord God why.'

Daily Mail