Who IS this 'dad'? Why no name? A baby has been beaten to death!
BY JOE RODRIGUEZ
The Wichita Eagle
kansas.com
A 4-month-old boy is the city's latest homicide victim, and Wichita police have arrested his 31-year-old father in connection with his death, authorities said Wednesday.
Zereon L. Thomas was pronounced dead shortly after his father took him to Wesley Medical Center at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday...
Zereon's father was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of felony murder and child abuse. Police said that the boy's mother has been in jail for about one week on charges unrelated to the baby's death.
The couple had lived together ...with the baby and their 12-year-old son, police said. That boy is now with family members.
The apartment where the family lived is part of Madison Avenue, a new development of Mennonite Housing, a nonprofit community development organization.
"We're a very family-oriented property, very family-oriented in this community," said Linda Howard, director of property management for Mennonite Housing. "And so it's very heartbreaking to hear that something like that has happened."
Landwehr said the suspect has at least four other children who live in another state. He said authorities learned that some of those children had sustained injuries while they were in his care, but the man was not charged...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
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