This story is such a tragedy.
I will bet that one "parent" will claim that Dontrell died of SIDS and that s/he panicked and buried him, then made up the story about him being with grandparents.
And, with the remains being skeletal, it will be hard to pinpoint a COD unless there is real obvious trauma.
Sadly, you are probably very much on target. Unless the child died of a massive injury that can be detected in the bones, there will likely be no proof of his cause of death. They may try to blame it on SIDS, just like you said. But if they smothered the baby, overdosed him on meds or shook him to death, it would be hard to prove with nothing but skeletal remains.
I find it infuriating that parents can conceal a death so that the cause of death can be proven and may get a much lighter sentence (or get away with it with no jail time as Caylee Anthony's killer did).
This is why there needs to be harsh punishment for anyone who conceals the death or disappearance of a child. Otherwise we will be seeing more cases like these.
The first reports were that the mom had reported that the dad was keeping the child from her but now the story is that social workers were checking on a report they had. Well, what is it?? We already know that social services totally turned their back on this baby when the first report of his whereabouts were questioned many months ago. But they deemed it "not worthy" of being investigated. Unbelievable!!!
I just can't see that the mother of this child honestly is telling the truth when she said that he took the kid with him one day and just dropped him off at his mom's and that she hadn't seen him or bothered to call or go see him even though he was supposedly only 30 minutes away.
I think she knows very well what happened to the baby and was part of the coverup. I really don't care who actually did the killing. They BOTH failed to care for that child. they both willfully disposed of him and denied that baby a proper burial. They are both equally to blame because they know what happened and conspired to lie about it.
I spent time on both of her facebook pages and believe me, her main concern was posing for pics (lots with her middle finger extended, oh so classy). She documented each of her 12 tattoos with the date she got them but NEVER once mentioned any of her 3 children's birthdays. She also showed off her manicures and her hair color changes and lamented the loss of her phone when the screen broke but never even showed a trace of sorrow for her dead child or even mentioned him, other than a few pics of him that were posted a little more than a week ago.
Apparently she and the babydaddy broke up recently (as per her fb comments) and this must be what finally compelled her to start pointing the finger at the dad and playing innocent like she was being kept away from her child.
I doubt we have yet heard the worst of this story. It will only get worse from here as the truth finally emerges (and the truth won't come from these 2 either, I bet).
I hate to think that this child was beaten to death but that may be the only chance to be able to prove how he died and thus charge them with murder because they will no doubt claim it was SIDS and that they are only guilty of improper disposal of a body.
Charge them with every single things possible (including welfare fraud, if applicable) and I pray they both get the harshest sentence and spend everyday of their sentence in jail (with no concurrent sentences or early release).
