Friday, August 20, 2010

Skeletal-looking 6-year-old boy found in attic (updated)

Posted by on Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:33 PM

click to enlarge Rachel Perez' 6-year-old son was found in an attic.
  • Rachel Perez' 6-year-old son was found in an attic.

Update (1:33 p.m. August 20): The story of the 6-year-old boy found in an attic just gets more depressing the more we find out. The Star reports that neighbors who talked with the malnourished boy's mother say that Rachel Perez told them that "the boy had

Down syndrome and lived with his father. Not true considering authorities found the boy in Perez' hot and filthy attic.

And this will make you sick: Neighbors told the Star that Perez was pregnant.



Then there's disgusting bit:

The property manager for the

duplex told media that he evicted Perez

on Thursday when he entered the residence and found the home and attic

covered with feces and mold.

Just wicked.

Original Story (10:04 a.m. August 19): We have a frontrunner for

Worst Mother of the Year.

Johnson County Sheriff's deputies

found a malnourished 6-year-old boy in an attic Tuesday night, hours

after his 26-year-old mother, Rachel L. Perez, was arrested.

A relative was worried about the boy, so deputies did a welfare check at

a De Soto home in the 8200 block of Center Drive Tuesday evening around

5. The boy's mother claimed he wasn't home, and deputies arrested her

on an outstanding warrant. Hey, would a mother lie? Apparently so.

The relative requested deputies go back to the home, which they did

around 11 p.m. They found the boy in the attic. He was "very fragile,"

"extremely thin," and "his skeletal structure could easily be seen due

to his level of malnourishment."

If you can't trust a mother, who

can you trust? Looks like no one. The boy was taken to Children's Mercy

Hospital and is in protective custody.

Perez is charged with

abuse of a child younger than 18 and aggravated endangering of a child. She's expected to make her first appearance at 1:30, presumably after eating a lunch that she doesn't deserve (if this is all true).

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