Posted on 11/01/2018 8:28:05 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Court hears how four-month-old boy's maggot-infested body was found in a baby swing after he went unchanged for a week and died of extreme 'diaper rash' as his father faces trial for murder
An Iowa father's murder trial has begun after his infant son's body was found maggot-infested in a baby swing after dying from diaper rash last year.
Four-month-old Sterling Koehn had been in the same diaper for nine to 14 days when his body was found in the swing August 30, 2017, at his parents' apartment in Alta Vista.
The baby's father, 29-year-old Zachary Paul Koehn, is charged with murder and child endangerment.
The boy's mother, Cheyanne Harris, is also charged and faces a separate trial at a later date.
Assistant Iowa Attorney General Coleman McAllister told jurors on Tuesday that the child 'died of diaper rash.'
In opening statements, McAllister said the baby's heavily soiled diaper had attracted bugs that had laid eggs, which had hatched into maggots.
The resulting diaper rash led to ruptured skin, and e.Coli bacteria set in.
'He died of diaper rash. That's right, diaper rash,' McAllister said.
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“Hes a truck driver that was hooked on meth. Yikes.
I wonder what the parents IQs are?”
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They could be Mensa members——being hooked on meth is the thing that destroys,no matter what the IQ is.
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There’s actually a form of torture/execution that involved sealing the condemned’s body up and letting him be consumed by worms and maggots in his own excrement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
he should be sterilized and wife/gf also. I hate these kind of stories.
The name’s Prussian... though he looks Mediterranean.
Maybe some Jewish blood way back, I think Koehn is a German variant of Cohen.
Give him the boats torture
They were both on meth according to the article but supposedly quit months before this incident and were getting treatment but there’s no mention of how long they had been using it before they sought treatment.
I didn’t know meth is essentially “speed” and was used for ADD.
When you’re on it you’re in a state of great euphoria and performance but once off it you crash, and in desperation to get out of the comparably miserable dungeon of depression you do anything to create the high again.
Their blood chemistry is probably a mess and the stuff erodes IQ.
The guy’s friends say they didn’t even know he had a baby.
My husband and I lost our daughter’s twin at 16 weeks gestation as well. We are like you, stories like this devastate us.
The baby’s in a much better place now...
He looks middle eastern or French Canadian to me.
Dear God! How could ANY human being let something like that happen to ANY child, let alone their own flesh and blood?
Easy, they aren’t human.
The “boats” is the only just punishment for both of them...
Shoot him.
Yeah... with a chainsaw.
Can we (a) bring back forced sterilization and (b) create a national database, like the “sex offenders” database, but for adults who are not legally allowed to adopt children???
Internet sources about family names claim the Koehn originated in West Prussia in the 1300’s. Northern Europe. But who knows what mixing and name-stealing occurs over time.
i’m ok with that.
I am aghast. Society is aghast. Signs of a heart of flesh. Good.
But when the baby is torn limb from limb in utero... yawn from most of our sick society today.
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