Parents arrested after son's body found in flat weeks after his death
Saturday, January 9, 2016 @ 11:36 PM
PARENTS of a seven-year-old child thought to have been dead for several weeks when he was found by police have been arrested, but since released with charges.
Their son was lying in his bed when he was discovered, and is thought to have died there at least a month earlier.
Criminal investigators from Girona city detained the child's parents, US nationals from Detroit aged 38 and 39, and charged them with negligent homicide.
The couple's other two children, aged 12 and 14, were taken into care and have been seen by psychologists.
Police say the owner of the flat on the C/ Joan Roca Pinet in the Ensanche neighbourhood of Girona made the tragic discovery when she called round to collect several months' unpaid rent.
When she arrived, she heard loud shouting from behind the door and cries entreating the 'Devil' to 'get out', and called the Mossos d'Esquadra – Catalunya's answer to the Guardia Civil – who attended the scene immediately.
Upon entering, officers noticed a pungent smell throughout the flat and, when they inspected every room inside, they found a seven-year-old boy wrapped in blankets in his bed.
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