16YO Autistic Teen Tied To Cot & Starved To Death By His Mom & Her Boyfriend

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Tamera Moore and her boyfriend, William Turnage, are accused of starving the woman's 16-year-old autistic son and chaining him to a cot in an utility room.

According to the Hamilton County prosecutor. The Hamilton County Coroner's Office said the cause of death was starvation.

Turnage is wanted for murder, child endangering, involuntary manslaughter and failure to report a crime.

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An Ohio man is headed to prison for more than a decade for the death of his girlfriend's teenage son with autism who withered with no food while restrained in a 56-degree basement.

William Turnage, 59, was sentenced Monday to between 11 and 15 1/2 years behind bars in the death of 16-year-old Jeremiah Moore, the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office told Law&Crime. He pleaded guilty on July 31 to involuntary manslaughter and endangering children. As part of his plea deal, prosecutors dropped a murder charge, and he will have to testify against 53-year-old Tamara Moore — Jeremiah's mother and Turnage's girlfriend at the time of the boy's death.

Prosecutors detailed the horrific conditions in which the boy lived during Monday's hearing, according to a courtroom report by the Cincinnati Enquirer. Jeremiah died on Feb. 6, 2024, while tied down to a cot in a basement utility room at his home in Springfield Township, a Cincinnati suburb. Prosecutors reportedly said he had no food in his stomach and was wearing only an "absolutely disgusting" diaper when he died.

The boy had marks on his wrists and neck, indicating he had been restrained, and he was not even able to stand up in the utility closet in which he was kept, prosecutors said, per the Enquirer. Cops reportedly measured the basement temperature at just 56 degrees.

Jeremiah was nonverbal and relied entirely on adults to take care of him, according to police.

"I've never seen a case that's this horrific with the suffering that they put him through and with him not being able to even verbalize the pain or suffering that he was going through," Springfield Township police Sgt. Rami Khayo reportedly said.

Jeremiah's maternal grandmother took care of him during the first part of his life. But that care took a turn for the worse after his grandma died, according to prosecutors.

Turnage apologized, reportedly saying he wished he had been more "proactive." He also claimed he "wasn't aware" of the extent of the boy's misery.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Jody Luebbers was having none of it.

"You're nothing but a monster, sir," she said, according to the Enquirer. "You're going to have to live with this for the rest of your life."

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Man who left boy with autism to die while tied to bed in 56-degree basement learns fate

An Ohio man is headed to prison for more than a decade for the death of his girlfriend's teenage son with autism who withered with no food while restrained in a 56-degree basement.

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