OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A stepmother in Osceola County was charged within the drowning demise of a 5-year-old boy that occurred two months in the past.
In line with data obtained by NBC affiliate WESH, Cheyenne Star Fite, 25, was recognized because the particular person liable for watching three kids as they performed of their yard on Oct. 11.
Officers mentioned she discovered the 5-year-old in a 7-foot gap subsequent to a pigpen that was stuffed with feces and urine. She reportedly informed investigators she was contained in the trailer folding garments when one other youngster informed her the boy was “underneath the water.”
Investigators arrived to search out the boy bare and unconscious. He was taken to the hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
A toddler informed investigators the boy was unclothed as a punishment, based on arrest data. The stepmother claimed he was bare as a result of she was doing his laundry.
Fite was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a kid. She is being held with out bond.
