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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I suspect Meth, although it could be a different drug. In any case, guilty.
My wife and I lost our second child (son) to Trisomy 18 at about 16 weeks’ gestation. Stories like this just crush me.
You’d think he would have died of thirst or starvation first. How do you remember to feed a kid but not change a filthy diaper?
I would like to to tie him down and infest him with maggots.
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Mohammed made him do it?
Methhammed.
Look at the photos. Good lord... white trash.
Meth addiction is a terrible thing
Horrible was for this little guy to die.
No place in hell hot enough....
He’s got a two year old girl too, reportedly healthy.
Maybe physically but there’s no way she can be unaffected mentally in an atmosphere created by these two drugged up losers.
Ding ding dong
And you would be correct
Though I’m pretty sure they used whatever was around
I’m speechless. If they didn’t want the baby give it up for adoption!
He looks like he came from a difference continent than the European settlers of this country.
I suspect Meth also whenever one hears such stories. The media doesn’t give us a lot to go on, so we can only guess.
Their photos don’t show the typical features one sees on habitual meth users, for what its worth.
He looks like he doesn’t give two craps about it, too
He’s a truck driver that was hooked on meth. Yikes.
I wonder what the parents IQs are?
About meth:
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/meth-addiction/meth-affect-brain/
“He looks like he came from a difference continent than the European settlers of this country.”
His name “Sterling Koehn.”
What continent, that does not include Iowa, do you think he might be from?
What a horrible way to die.
Methartica.
Both parents were meth heads.
Both should get a long drop on a short rope.
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