46-year-old Ivan Ray Ross III and his girlfriend, 34-year-old Ashley Marie Moore was indicted Monday by a Northampton Grand Jury on counts of second-degree murder in connection with the death of their 4-month-old son in 2024, according to reporting from our partners at Shore Daily News.
The couple was also indicted on three counts each of abuse and neglect. The abuse charges are related to the deceased baby, his twin, and another young sibling, Shore Daily News reports.
The Northampton Sheriff’s Office and the Eastville Police Department began investigating the death after police responded to the Fox Trailer Court to assist EMS with a report where the child had difficulty breathing.
He was pronounced dead taken at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital.
In court records, a magistrate noted, “Autopsy report showed severe dehydration and blunt force injuries, amongst other results for the four-month-old baby boy.” On another document, a magistrate wrote, “medical examiner found little food in stomach, dehydrated, cracked ribs,” Shore Daily News reports.
Continue readingThe abuse and neglect indictments allege Ross and Moore “willfully omitted or refused to provide … necessary care for a child’s health or permit serious injury to the life or health of a child,” Shore Daily News reports.
Eastville parents face murder charges in death of infant son
An Eastville area couple was indicted Monday by a Northampton Grand Jury on counts of second-degree murder in connection with the death of their four-month-old son.
The twins were born 5 weeks early...
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