Sentenced: "If God Wanted Him To Eat, He Would Have Eaten," Father Says Of Deceased 11MO Boy

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Canton police have arrested the parents of an 11-month-old baby for permitted child abuse following the boy's death.

On Tuesday, June 25, at around 9 a.m., officers responded for an 11-month-old boy who appeared to have stopped breathing.

After arriving at the home, Canton Fire transported the baby to Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital, where he died a short time later.

While responding, Canton police located both parents and a 2-year-old child in the home. Stark County Children Services was contacted and removed the second child from the home.

Upon further investigation, Canton police arrested the parents, 26-year-old Eric Rush and 30-year-old Tyasia Singleton, in connection with the child's death.

Both Rush and Singleton are facing charges of permitting child abuse, endangering children and domestic violence.

3News obtained a criminal complaint that alleges that both Singleton and Rush "withheld nourishment and medical care" which contributed to the death of the child.

Police said in the complaint that the "action and lack of care ultimately resulted in the malnutrition and possible the death" of the victim.

 

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An 11-month-old Canton baby who starved to death lived in "absolutely appalling conditions" with a brother who was nearly 2 years old, a police detective said Wednesday in Canton Municipal Court.

Detective Kevin Sedares also told Judge Kristen D. Guardado that what happened to the late Royale Rush was the "most egregious treatment of a child I had ever seen."

The detective said that after arriving on June 25 at Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital as part of his investigation of the death, he learned that the infant was extremely emaciated. He weighed 10.3 pounds.

"When I saw the baby, it reminded me of pictures I had seen of starving kids in Ethiopia in magazines. It was absolutely horrific," he said during a preliminary hearing for the boy's father, Eric W. Rush.

Rush, 26, is charged with two counts each of domestic violence, endangering children and permitting child abuse in connection with his son's death. He is also charged with having weapons under disability.

Under questioning from Kate Lukosavich, the city's domestic violence prosecutor, Sedares described conditions in the townhouse on 10th Street NE where Rush and codefendant Tyasia R. Singleton, 30, the baby's mother, lived with the children.

"There was no baby formula. Every bit of food in that house, every bit of food, could be placed in a milk crate. The refrigerator was almost completely bare," the detective said. He said that while there was no infant formula, the parents ate.

He found an empty can of baby formula at the bottom of a trash can. The parents told him that they hadn't had baby formula in a week. There were no infant diapers.

"The kids' room was completely bare. Where the 2-year-old was found ... there was a mattress on the floor and an empty bed frame. That room just reeked of spoiled milk, urine and body odor," Sedares said. "There were several fly strips on the wall that were completely full of flies.

In the room where the baby was found, officers found only an Xbox console on the floor and a playpen with no bottom. There were a couple of blankets that were soaked with bodily fluids and spoiled milk, he said.

A baby bottle, half full, contained what the parents described as a mixture of rice, milk and water, Sedares said.

"That's the same bottle that they had made at 6 o'clock Monday night, left that bottle out for ... 14 hours, and tried to feed that same bottle to the baby the next morning," he said. "In my 32 years of being a cop, that is the most egregious treatment of a child I had ever seen."

He said Rush said the baby didn't eat. The father's explanation was, "If God wanted him to eat, he would have eaten," Sedares said.

"He admitted that the baby would throw his milk up, which isn't surprising, seeing how they gave him spoiled milk," Sedares said.

The detective said Rush didn't hold the boy while feeding him, but propped up the bottle and went to play video games. He said the father's biggest concern on June 25 was how long the police investigation would take, because he wanted to return to playing video games online.

"He showed absolutely no emotion about his infant," Sedares said.

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[DivineRAiNz]

I'm surprised the other child made it almost two years with two lazy idiots for parents. The little one was an 11mo baby who should've been near taking those first steps, but was too weak to hold a fucking bottle. By that age the baby should have been eating food, not through a frippin bottle.
I remember spending a lot of time on aol, chatting, debating and other fun stuff..it was addicting. But I wasn't so stupidly engrossed in it that I stopped caring about my daughter.

 

[the cat did it]

Shove the whole video game console up his ass, shove controllers down mothers throat and choke.

 

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April 17, 2025

A Canton father will spend 14 to 19.5 years in prison for the starvation death of his 11-month-old who weighed only 10 pounds when he died.

Eric W. Rush was sentenced after pleading guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangering, part of a plea agreement with county prosecutors. The father also pleaded guilty to having a weapon while under disability. He was prohibited from having guns due to a prior felony-level conviction as a juvenile.

Rush, 27, originally was charged with murder and a second child endangering charge. In exchange for his guilty plea, the murder charge was reduced to manslaughter and one child endangering charge was dropped.

Judge Taryn L. Heath gave Rush the same sentence she gave on Tuesday to the baby's mother, Tyasia R. Singleton, 31, in connection with the death of Royale Rush. Singleton made the same pleas to manslaughter and child endangering as Rush.

Given the chance to speak on his own behalf, Rush first talked about the effect the criminal case had on him before talking about his son.

"This situation is like the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life," he said. "I never thought anything like this would ever happen. I'm not a bad person. I just wish this never happened."

Rush said that he had suffered sleepless nights and had been unable to eat at times. He said he now has gray hairs in his beard, which he had never seen before.

"I miss my son very much. I think about him every day," Rush said.

He asked Heath if she would consider giving him judicial, or early, release. Judges are required to consider and rule on motions for judicial release. She told Rush he should plan to serve the entire sentence.

Detective Kevin Sedares - "When I saw the baby, it reminded me of pictures I had seen of starving kids in Ethiopia in magazines," he said during a preliminary hearing for Rush. "It was absolutely horrific."

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/courts/2025/04/17/baby-starved-child-neglect-death-eric-rush-ohio-crime-prison/83146636007/

TYASIA RAYE SINGLETON

Sentence Information

Aggregate Sentence 3.00 HB86-5 + 11.00-16.50 SB201

Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date 06/23/2038

ERIC WILKINS RUSH

Sentence Information

Aggregate Sentence 3.00 HB86-5 + 11.00-16.50 SB201

Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date 06/23/2038

 

[cubby]

OOOOOhhhh she looks pissed .

 

[Sugar Cookie]

OOOOOhhhh she looks pissed .

But not hungry,