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This is likely one of the most annoying instances we’ve ever heard…
An Arizona father is going through murder prices after his son was found useless in a fully disgusting home, per authorized docs obtained by KOLD reporter Mary Coleman. Based on data Joseph Gregory Antonsen, 38, was charged with one depend every of youngster abuse and negligent murder after his 9-year-old boy was discovered useless — surrounded by spiders and filth.
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Per a July 14 press launch from the Pima County Sheriff’s Division, officers responded to a residence within the Tucson Mountain District the place they discovered the younger boy already deceased on the sofa. Possible trigger docs mentioned the responding officers discovered him “in a sitting place” and “within the means of decomposition”. Extra disturbing particulars in regards to the residence revealed simply how nasty it was — together with the very fact there was no working water or working rest room:
“A number of empty beer cans, giant piles of dirty diapers, rotten meals, giant quantities of 1 gallon bottles filled with what seem like urine … plenty of insect exercise … black widows and brown recluse [spiders, and] spiderwebs in every single place all through the partitions of the house.”
Terrible! The thought this poor youngster lived and died in such a state…
Per the paperwork, Antonsen claimed his son fell in poor health on July 12 and he was planning to take him to a physician — however then the boy began “shuttering and going limp” after which stopped respiratory. Antonsen mentioned after that he couldn’t discover a pulse — however as a substitute of calling 911, doing something to attempt to save his son, he allegedly left the home for 2 days. Horrible, simply horrible. How may a father or mother do that to their youngster?
He “declined” to talk with deputies additional about it. Antonsen was arrested and placed on a $500,000 bail. Within the docs, responding regulation enforcement mentioned:
“Primarily based on the deplorable circumstances of the house and Joseph failing to offer medical assist or calling 911 for [the child], possible trigger exists to cost Joseph Antonsen for Baby Abuse and Negligent Murder.”
A neighbor spoke with the native outlet during which they described the boy as “actually cute”:
“He was a very pleasant child. He was very well mannered. He was quite a bit friendlier than his dad.”
Heartbreaking. Might the toddler relaxation in peace.
You probably have honest trigger to suspect youngster abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Baby Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Baby or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
[Image via Pima County Sheriff’s Department]
