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3-year-old's body discovered in freezer of Detroit home; mother arrested
Detroit — When a team of Detroit cops and a state child advocate arrived at a rundown house on the city's west side Friday morning to conduct a wellness check, the woman who answered the door acted strangely, police officials said.
"She tried to push the officers away as if there was nothing going on," Detroit Police Chief James White said. "Something was not right about the conversation."
Their suspicions raised, the officers called for a supervisor and the team entered the home. They found five children living in squalor — and the decomposed body of another child, thought to be a 3-year-old boy, entombed in a basement freezer.
Three-year-old missing for months found dead in mom's basement freezer
Neighbors claimed that they had not seen the child in months, with the mother allegedly claiming that he was with relatives in another state.![www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com](/forums/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fg.newsweek.com%2Fthemes%2Fnewsweek%2Ffavicons%2Ffavicon-32x32.png&hash=38ce6d34c72f38503bbdc412c0bdd787)