On Kenensville Road in Osceola County, the little Riley Scot Hogebackat only five years old, died due to her stepmother’s punishment, like in a horror story.
Cheyenne Fite He watched over Riley and his two brothers, ages 3 and 5, whom he allowed to play in a muddy yard because there was no electricity. The yard had ankle-deep puddles from a recent storm, he told authorities.
Osceola Sheriff’s deputies responded to his home in response to a 911 call about a child drowning. When they arrived at the property, they found him naked, unconscious and covered in mud.
Riley was taken to the emergency room at HCA Osceola Hospital in Florida East, where he was pronounced dead.
According to Fite, he only left for five minutes to do household chores when He heard one of the children shout that the minor was underwater. She did not believe it and continued with her work. When he noticed that he hadn’t seen Riley for a long time, he looked for him and found him in the ditch, on a green surfboard.
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After serving the search warrant at the home, it was described as a “chaotic and disorderly environment” where “the air was heavy and had the smell of urine,” the Osceola News Gazette states.
There were also “knives, rusty metals, rat and cattle feces, and pieces of scrap metal that were considered dangerous for children.”
The authorities noted that A foul smell emanated from the ditch.since the discharged water came from a pig farm, so it contained excrement and urine from the animals.
Such a trench was not dug near the camper house where they lived, as the woman said, but “at a distance of a football field, quite far from the trailer, with multiple objects that obstructed the view, such as piles of dirt, scrap metal, trees high and another trailer,” detectives reported.
It was more of a trench measuring approximately 3 by 4.5 meters and 2 meters deep, and was dug to relieve flooding on the property after Hurricane Milton.
In a separate interview with the agents, one of the boys said the woman left Riley naked as punishment because he had hurt a chicken that day. He also said that the woman was sleeping when the minor drowned.
Law & Crime explained that Riley’s death occurred due to drowning, and that “his lungs were covered in brown and green mud,” according to official documents.
The father of the minor, David Hogebackadmitted that his wife probably did not take proper care of the children and that he did not even know that the ditch had been dug to drain the water.
Hogeback continued: “It’s cost me a mental breakdown that I’m dealing with, because there’s no amount of money available, there’s nothing available that can bring him back,” he told WESH 2 Investigates.
Fite was charged with aggravated murder and sent to Osceola County Jail, without bail, ClickOrlando reports.
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