In one of the saddest cases of child abuse, a mother and her boyfriend have now been arrested. In 2021, a 15-year-old boy called police to say that his brother had been dead in the next room for months. Police arrived on the scene to find the skeletal remains of an 8-year-old child, along with three other siblings living in the apartment.
The parents were nowhere to be found.
Authorities tracked down the mother of the children and her boyfriend. The two were initially questioned and released before later being arrested.
The mother of the children, Gloria Williams, 35, was charged with injury to a child by omission and tampering with a corpse. Williams' boyfriend, Brian Coulter, 31, was charged in the murder of her son.
The conditions the children were living in were horrific. Not only were they living with a corpse for months, they were also severely malnourished. Authorities believe the parents hadn't lived in the home for several months.
So many questions remain as to why the home was abandoned and what happened that led to the child's death. However, it was revealed that the boy died from multiple blunt force injuries.
