According to the authorities in the Land of Enchantment, a guy from New Mexico is currently being held in custody after the body of his infant boy, who was five months old at the time, was discovered inside his home over the weekend.
According to records from the Curry County jail, Jared White, who is 35 years old, is believed to be charged of one count of child abuse leading in death as well as one count of abandonment of a child resulting in death.
Allegedly, the underlying incident was started by a crying session that took place late at night.
On Sunday afternoon, just after two o’clock, police were summoned to a house on Maple Street in Clovis, which is a medium-sized city located just across the border with Texas. The call came in response to a newborn who was not breathing, according to a report based in Amarillo.
Attempts were made to save the infant’s life at that location, and the youngster was subsequently transported to the Plains Regional Medical Center quickly. According to the announcement made by the Clovis Police Department, he was declared deceased at 2:42 p.m.
An initial statement made by a spokeswoman for the police department to the television station stated that certain evidence “raised concerns regarding the nature and timing of the infant’s injuries.”
The ambiguous statement was later clarified by law enforcement, which alleged that White presented a story that was not consistent with other evidence, as reported by KOAT, an ABC affiliate based in Albuquerque.
KOB, an NBC affiliate headquartered in Albuquerque, was able to get a criminal complaint that stated the infant was sleeping on the couch when the police came.
As for the father, he is believed to have stated that he found his son inside of a bouncer that had been flipped over. This occurred after the father had been visiting the residence of a friend for approximately one hour. At the time of the tragic finding, White allegedly told investigators that the child’s face was already purple. This information was provided during an interview.
According to the police, this did not coincide with the time that the youngster passed away.
“The main thing about that is the condition that the body was in when we started our investigation didn’t match what the statements were about him being dead for about an hour or so,” according to law enforcement.
Instead, the evidence revealed that the death occurred considerably earlier, according to the authorities.
“The child was in full rigor mortis at the time he was transported to the hospital,” the lawsuit states, according to a copy of the complaint that Eastern New Mexico News was able to get. Additionally, it was found that the rigor mortis started to release once the patient was transferred to the hospital when it was identified. … In order to complete this operation, it would take between six and eight hours. What this would imply is that the passing of [the child] would have had to have taken place a great deal earlier than the story that was being told.
Additionally, the youngster was found to have markings that indicated he had been strangled, and the police also stated that there was verbal evidence to support this contention.
White’s account of the child being found in the overturned bouncer shortly before to the call to 911 was first supported by a witness who was identified as the defendant’s buddy, according to the police.
“The friend said she lifted the blanket and observed Joseph with his face in the mattress and his body to be purple,” according to the allegations filed against him. “The friend said at this time she yelled for Jared to come to the bedroom stating, ‘I think your baby is dead.'”
Later on, the friend allegedly revised her account to say that she witnessed White strangling his son several hours before making the emergency call. However, she reportedly stated that she was first hesitant to help because “she was afraid Jared would hurt her,” and she fled the room. This is according to the complaint.
When the child started crying around one in the morning, the father’s acquaintance allegedly alerted law enforcement about it in a subsequent interview. The interview took place after the child’s passing.
“[The friend] observed Jared to have wrapped the child into a blanket … she then saw Jared lift [the child] into the air by his neck while still being wrapped in the blanket,” the complaint states in its entirety. “The friend described Jared to have both hands wrapped around the child’s neck and to have been strangling him.”
According to the authorities, a second youngster was discovered at the house on Maple Street, and it was removed from the household owing to the condition of the objects that were located inside the house.
Dog feces and drug paraphernalia were discovered throughout the house, according to the detectives who investigated the case. As stated in the lawsuit, the contents of one of the bedrooms included a soiled mattress as well as a baby bottle that had a parasitic insect. A mattress that was drenched in urine was found in another bedroom, where the second child, who was believed to have diaper rash, was sleeping. A summary of the description provided by law enforcement is that the residence was described as “completely unsanitary and a possible health risk.”
“Distressed and out of touch with reality,” the police said, adding that the defendant “would appear to be fine and have conversations on the phone, then began to cry” and make outbursts. The defendant was also described as “out of touch with reality.”
At this time, White is being held under arrest without the possibility of bond at the Curry County Detention Center.
