Missing Texas boy lived in filthy shed with ‘death altar’: report

A lacking Texas boy who was the topic of an Amber Alert almost per week in the past had been dwelling in a grimy shack that included an altar to dying, in response to media experiences.

Video of the squalor, obtained by Dallas’ Fox station, reveals a shed filled with meals, private belongings and two beds the place 9 individuals — together with Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, 6, lived.

Contained in the Everman, Texas, shed the place the kid was final seen there’s an altar to Santa Muerte, or Saint Dying — a feminine cult determine that personifies dying in Mexico.

Santa Muerte has been denounced by the Catholic Church however has grown in reputation not too long ago — significantly with members of the Gulf, Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels, the DEA stated.

“With a globe in a single hand and a jeweled sickle within the different, the statue’s symbolism of non-public empowerment and terror appeals to drug sellers,” the company said.

Investigators together with the FBI, who was requested to help native forces within the small city south of Fort Value, have been seen coming and going from the shed this week with paperwork and different items of proof.

An Amber Alert was issued for Noel on Saturday, after police and youngster protecting providers have been tipped off by relations who claimed they hadn’t seen the boy — described as having bodily and developmental challenges in months. His mom is believed to have left the nation.

“He was born at 25 weeks, and subsequently, has a variety of bodily disabilities and developmental issues,” Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer instructed WFAA.

“He suffers from social dysfunction…and has continual lung illness, which has required him to be on oxygen at sure factors of time.”

Previous to the Amber Alert being issued, the boys’ mom, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, 37, was contacted by police and youngster protecting providers. When requested about Noel’s whereabouts, she instructed investigators he was in Mexico, staying along with his organic father. Nonetheless authorities later realized the boy’s father by no means met the boy, as he had been deported from the US earlier than he was born.

When investigators tried reaching out to Noel’s siblings, they realized the kids had been pulled from college.

Earlier than authorities might make contact with Rodriguez-Singh once more, she boarded a aircraft with six of her youngsters and their stepfather. Noel was not on the flight, Everman police instructed Fox. Authorities imagine they flew to Turkey, earlier than making their option to India — the place Rodriguez-Singh’s present husband is from.

The dingy shed is situated behind the house of Charles Parson, 71. He instructed an area station he met Rodriguez-Singh at a grocery retailer almost a decade in the past and provided two spare rooms in his house for the reason that single mother was “going by way of a tough patch.”

Finally she moved into the shed as she had extra children — with a complete of ten. Three of them reside with their grandparents.

“They’re scared they’re going to get in hassle with the legislation,” Parson defined. “They’re afraid they could have accomplished one thing fallacious.”

The person, who thought-about himself Noel’s godfather, believes the boy’s mother didn’t harm him and that the kid remains to be alive.

“I do know her,” he provided as proof.

In the meantime, police have issued an arrest warrant for Rodriguez-Singh and plan to cost her for making false experiences to a police officer concerning a lacking particular person, and for violating her probation in an unrelated case.

Police describe her as having an “intensive legal historical past” and defined she was the topic of a earlier Youngster Protecting Providers investigation.