According to court documents, Troy’s adoptive father intentionally and knowingly caused the 7-year-old’s death by submerging his nose and mouth underwater and hitting him with an unknown object.
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When deputies pulled the little boy from the washing machine, his arms and legs were warm, but his body was cold, according to court documents.
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Investigators reviewed a text message thread between the couple, which revealed that the adoptive mother threatened Troy by telling him she was going to “put him in the stove and turn it on” if he did not admit to eating her oatmeal crème pies. The adoptive father responded, “I need to get the (locks). I’m going to end up kill(ing) him. You going to come home and he going to be hang(ing) from the tree outside.”
All for eating an oatmeal pie. The text thread between them is horrible! It always sickens me too when CPS has been called by teachers and it seems nothing was done.