Photo: Go Fund Me
A Colorado community is coming together to honor a 7-year-old boywhose body was found encased in concretetwo days before Christmas last year as the boy’s mother stands accused in his death.
“I would’ve never,never guessed that this would’ve happened to such a sweet, kind boy,”Caden’s former teacher at Ellis Elementary School, Christina Hafler, told local station ABC7. “He always came to school with a smile on his face, always.”
Caden McWilliams.Facebook
“As a long term goal we would like to educate and shore up our community to identify ways that we can help intervene and prevent other tragedies like this from happening to kids in our neighborhood,” the GoFundMe page reads.
However, authorities allege Caden was neglected and died in July. Nobody reported the boy missing.
It wasn’t until authorities began investigating a separate domestic incident involving his parents in December that they realized the couple’s son was missing.
When a tip came in saying that the couple had a storage room in the area, authorities became suspicious and obtained a search warrant to search the unit, where they discovered Caden’s body.
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Elisha Pankey.Aurora Police Department
According to her arrest affidavit, Pankey allegedly admitted to a fellow jail inmate while being held on separate charges that she kept Caden in a largedog crate in thefamily’s hotel room.On the night of his death, the crate was covered in blankets. Caden cried to his mother about being hot, but Pankey allegedly ignored him and the next morning, he was dead.
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source: people.com
