HORROR details have emerged in the rape and murder of a five-year-old boy after his mother and her boyfriend were charged with his death.
Authorities were called to a home in Maryland on July 22, where they found the boy unresponsive.
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He was transported to two different medical centers and was pronounced dead at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC.
His name has not been released.
The mother’s boyfriend, Timothy Lee Haselden, was arrested on July 22 by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
He faces nine charges, including child abuse resulting in the death of a victim under the age of 13 and first- and second-degree rape FOX5.
The boy’s mother, Catherine Thrasher, was arrested by the sheriff’s office on July 25.
She faces several charges, including child abuse resulting in the death of a victim under the age of 13, child sexual abuse and assault.
Both are being held without bond in the Washington County Sheriff’s Detention Center.
Court documents obtained by: WUSA9 show that Thrasher – who reportedly worked at a restaurant – called 911 on July 22 when the boy was not breathing.
She was called by Haselden when the boy stopped responding, according to WUSA9.
Emergency services found the child with “contusions at various stages (both old and new/healing) all over his body” and evidence of a “potential skull fracture,” the documents claim.
Investigators later determined that the boy had been raped, WUSA9 said.
The emergency services would have told the detectives that the child was autistic and that there were indications of strangulation, the outlet reports.
It was also determined that there was “continuous extensive internal and external blunt trauma”, and that the boy had “observed multiple injuries to and within his body consistent with continued abuse,” the Hagerstown Herald-Mail newspaper reports.
An autopsy will be performed by the DC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.
Two other children were reportedly home when the five-year-old was discovered.
One child, a two-year-old boy, was also taken to DC Hospital and has been released.
Those children are housed with the Washington County Department of Social Services, officials said.
During a hearing for Haselden, Washington’s Assistant State Attorney Danielle Lackovic told a judge that both children also showed evidence that they had been abused, Oxygen reports.
Thrasher and Haselden have reportedly been living in the house for about five months where the boy has been unresponsive.
According to the court, he is not the boy’s father.
FOX5 court records show that Haselden has a criminal record dating back to 2010 and that he has previously experienced multiple assaults.