6-year-old boy found buried in Arkansas home; mother, man arrested on murder charges

The physique of a 6-year-old boy was discovered buried Friday in a home in rural Arkansas, authorities stated. The sufferer’s mom and one other man have been arrested on homicide prices.

The boy’s physique was found buried below a hallway flooring of the house, which is situated within the small jap Arkansas city of Moro in Lee County, Arkansas State Police reported Saturday.   

The boy’s 6-year-old sister was additionally discovered within the house with what had been believed to be burns to her scalp, state police stated.

After making the invention, Lee County Sheriff’s deputies dispatched for state police particular brokers to come back to the house late Friday evening.

Investigators consider the boy could have died from accidents he sustained within the house three months previous to his physique being discovered, state police stated. His title was not instantly launched.

The mom of each kids, 28-year-old Ashley Roland, and one other man, 33-year-old Nathan Bridges, had been arrested on prices of capital homicide, abuse of a corpse, tampering with bodily proof and endangering the welfare of a minor.

The boy’s sister was taken to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, for remedy, and was in steady situation eventually report, state police disclosed.

Bridges’ relationship to Roland and the sufferer was not supplied. The precise circumstances which precipitated the boy’s discovery had been unclear.