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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 19: Police tape blocks a street where a person was recently shot in a drug related event in Kensington on July 19, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, over 93,000 people died from a drug overdose last year in America. These numbers and the continued rise in opioid use made 2020 the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses. Officials have said that the increase is being driven by the lethal prevalence of fentanyl and stressed Americans due to the Covid pandemic. Kensington, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, has become one of the largest open-air heroin markets in the United States. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
According to investigators, a Pennsylvania mom reportedly concealed her dead baby's body within the wall of her bedroom. Officers arrived at the Charleroi homes of Kylie Wilt, 25, and Alan Hollis, 27, on Thursday to help Child Youth Services in their search for the child.
When the authorities arrived, they investigated the house and discovered the corpse of an infant stuffed into a wall. The mother said she didn't have enough money to bury her son after he died of sudden infant death syndrome at their other residence in February, as per Newsweek via MSN.
Mom accused of hiding dead baby
The baby, who was estimated to be six months old at the time, was wrapped in blankets and kept in a crate at first. Wilt and Hollis' mother is accused of telling police that she hid the crate in one of her bedroom's walls when they moved into their new house.
Robin Stasicha, who lived next door to the couple until about a month ago, said she could often hear the infant cry. She used to live next door to Wilt and Hollis until they relocated about a month ago, according to her. She stated that she was aware that the couple had a child.
Wilt, 25, was accused of hiding a child's death and abusing a corpse, among other things. Alan Hollis, the baby's father, is charged with obstructing the administration of justice or other governmental operations.
Per Cleveland19, Wilt's sister said she was unaware the infant had gone missing. Hollis, she alleged, was violent to her sister and isolated her from their family. Three more children resided with the couple, according to the district attorney. Right now, it's unknown where the kids are.
Related child abuse crimes in the recent week
The case follows the arrest of a North Carolina couple in October after DNA evidence linked them to child remains discovered in a garbage can nearly three decades earlier. Scott Gordon Poole, 54, and Robin Lynn Byrum, 51, were arrested at Nags Head for hiding a child's birth.
Investigators discovered the remains of an infant in a garbage can in Nags head in April 1991; however, owing to decomposition, officers were unable to determine the baby's gender.
Authorities recently detained a woman and her boyfriend after the skeletal bones of her 8-year-old son, a 15-year-old male, and two other malnourished children were discovered abandoned in an apartment.
According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, Brian Coulter, 31, of Houston, is charged with murder in connection with the boy's death while Gloria Williams, 35, of Houston, is charged with harm to a child by omission and tampering with a human body.
According to the sheriff's office, deputies responding to a call from the teenage boy on the afternoon of October 24 discovered that he had been living in the abandoned home with the body of his brother, who had been dead for a year and was stashed in the room next to his, as well as two of his younger brothers.
Both of the teen's brothers were stated to be malnourished and bruised. The parents of the children had not resided in the flat for several months, WHDH reported.
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