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Iowa teen found dead after running away over fight with parents over cellphone
Article via NBCNews
“At this time, there is no evidence or information that indicates criminal activity is connected to this,” according to a statement by Marshalltown police.
A 13-year-old Iowa boy who ran away after his parents took away his cellphone was found dead not far from his home, police said Monday.
Corey Brown of Marshalltown, Iowa, hadn’t been seen since Tuesday night before searchers discovered his body in a “secluded area” of town at about 10:45 a.m. CT (11:45 a.m. ET) on Sunday, according to a police statement.
The spot where Corey was found was less than 1.5 miles away from the boy’s home, Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper told NBC News on Monday.
“At this time, there is no evidence or information that indicates criminal activity is connected to this,” according to a statement by Marshalltown police. “However, this is still an active investigation and all possible scenarios will be thoroughly investigated.”
It wasn’t immediately clear if Corey was familiar with the area where he had been found.
“We believe we will be able to accurately account for his steps and whereabouts,” he said.
Tupper told reporters at a press conference Thursday night that Corey left home after the boy got into a spat his parents that ended with them taking away his cellphone.
“Anyone with kids has had discussions with their children about household rules,” Tupper said on Monday. “This was a typical parent-teenager interaction. No anger. Nothing extraordinary.”
Weather complicated the search for Corey, as the high temperature never got above 29 degrees while he was missing. The low over those four-and-a-half days bottomed out at -9 degrees on Friday morning.
More than 6 inches of snow fell on Marshalltown, which is about 50 miles northwest of Des Moines, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
An autopsy had yet to be performed by Monday morning. When surveillance cameras spotted Corey leaving home on Tuesday night, he was wearing a Seattle Seahawks knit cap, a red shirt, black pants, gray tennis shoes and lime green coat.
“He was wearing the same clothes he left home in,” Tupper said of Corey’s condition when he was found.
Nursing Assistants had sex with psychiatric facility patients
Two licensed nursing assistants are accused of having sexual relations with patients from an Iowa psychiatric facility.
An investigation began when the Prairie View Management Facility in Fayette reported two patients had absconded Feb. 21.
Four days later, deputies with the Fayette Sheriff’s Office learned the missing patients were seen with two nursing assistants from the facility, the Des Moines Register reported.
Authorities soon determined Megan Penney, 26, of Clermont and Paige Johanningmeier, 23, of Elgin, “had developed a relationship with the two patients and once they had left the facility it became sexual,” the sheriff’s office said.
The patients were at Prairie View under court order due to mental illness, the Register reported.
Penney and Johnningmeier were arrested Tuesday on a felony sex exploitation charge related to their position as counselors.
Each woman posted $2,000 bond and were released on the day they were booked.
Deputies took one of the patients back to Prairie View; they took the other to a hospital.
A woman who answered the phone at Prairie View told Fox News Friday that staff cooperated with investigators. She said the facility had no further comment and she declined to identify herself.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/nursing-assistants-had-sex-with-psychiatric-facility-patients-cops/
Baby stuck behind bed dies, parents charged
ANKENY, Iowa — Authorities say a baby whose parents have been charged with child endangerment died after becoming wedged between her bed and a wall.
The Des Moines Register reports that the Polk County medical examiner says the 7-month-old from Ankeny likely died of “positional asphyxia” last August and that the infant tested positive for cocaine metabolite, a breakdown product of cocaine. Examiner Gregory Schmunk says cocaine can be transmitted between baby and mother via breast milk, but he could not confirm how the drug got into the child’s system or when.
Thirty-three-year-old Michelle Atwell has been charged with child endangerment causing substantial risk, and several drug counts. Forty-eight-year-old Matthew Cohara has been charged with child endangerment causing no injury, and drug counts.
Cohara has said their daughter’s death was an accident.
via: https://nypost.com/2017/11/20/baby-stuck-behind-bed-dies-parents-charged/
Iowa Infant Found Dead, Severely Underweight, Infested With Maggots; Parents Charged With Murder
A northeast Iowa couple is facing homicide charges after their four-month-old son was found dead, weighing less than 7 pounds and in a diaper that hadn’t been changed in a week.
Twenty-year-old Cheyanne Harris and 28-year-old Zachary Koehn face charges of first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death, according to KTLA sister station WHO in Des Moines.
An ambulance was called to the couple’s Alta Vista apartment on Aug. 30 after Koehn told authorities his son Sterling Koehn had died, just a few hours after he said Harris fed the child, according to a criminal complaint filed on Tuesday.
The baby was allegedly found in a motorized swing seat in a different bedroom from where the couple and their other child slept.
An autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office found the infant measured well below the fifth percentile in size and weight for the child’s age, the complaint states. Maggots were also found in various stages of development on the child’s skin and in his clothing.
A forensic entomologist was able to determine the child “had not had a diaper change, bath, or been removed from the seat in over a week.”
The death has been classified as a homicide with the cause of death ruled as failure to provide critical care.
“The facts of this case go far beyond neglect and show circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to human life,” the criminal complaint concludes.
Harris and Koehn are being held in the Chickasaw County Jail. They are scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 2.