A person has been charged with first-degree homicide within the dying of a boy final yr, greater than 5 years after medical doctors recognized him with severe traumatic accidents after the boy’s husband and mom took him to a hospital in Aurora, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Eddie Meyers and the boy’s mom, Taja Shannon, are additionally charged with little one molestation resulting in dying, in line with courtroom paperwork from the 18th Judicial District.
Prosecutors for the Arapahoe County District Legal professional allege that in 2017 they positioned the kid in situations that posed a mortal menace and that they had been concerned in actions that led to malnutrition, lack of correct medical care, brutal punishment, assault and an accumulation of accidents.
In 2017, the 2 took the boy to Colorado Youngsters’s Hospital in Aurora as an toddler, the place medical doctors decided he had damaged legs, damaged ribs, contusions and a traumatic mind harm, in line with a grand jury indictment filed Might 8. Medical doctors informed Meyers and Shannon the kid was unlikely to make a full restoration, the lawsuit stated. The kid, fed by tube, by no means realized to crawl or discuss and was blind due to the mind harm, the lawsuit stated. He lived out and in of hospices for a number of years earlier than passing away final December.
Police referred the case to Arapahoe County prosecutors in 2017 for doable 2017 prices, however they’d no proof, the indictment stated. After the boy died in hospice, the Arapahoe County coroner decided the reason for dying to be murder and prosecutors took up the case and filed prices. Aurora police arrested Meyers and Shannon.
A courtroom listening to was scheduled for Monday on the standing of the case in opposition to Meyers. Shannon was scheduled for arraignment on August 14.
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