Rest in Peace Dear Precious Manny
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A victim of child abuse at the hands of his mother.
Manuel "Manny" Aguilar's body was found in a smoldering blanket in the basement of an abandoned house.
The Cook County medical examiner's office has determined the cause of death as homicide and the result of probable neglect. Authorities have alleged that Manny's mother, Alyssa Garcia, 27, who is charged with concealing Manny's death, kept her son in a back room where he would sit neglected.
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"They found him wrapped in a Superman T-shirt, his burned body so tiny that first responders thought he was 9 months old.
Authorities would later discover that 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar spent the last months of his life in the unheated storage room of a Southwest Side two-flat, naked and scared, pounding on the door to beg for food and water.
He was forced to sleep on the bare floor or in a kitty litter box, his siblings told police. Beaten and starved, he died alone with open eyes.
Then his mother, Alyssa Garcia, her teenage boyfriend and the boyfriend's relative stuffed Manny's 27-pound corpse in a bag of towels and clothes and lit the bundle on fire in the basement of an abandoned house in August 2016, Cook County prosecutors allege."
By: David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa EldeibContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune - May 11, 2017
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A victim of child abuse at the hands of his mother.
Manuel "Manny" Aguilar's body was found in a smoldering blanket in the basement of an abandoned house.
The Cook County medical examiner's office has determined the cause of death as homicide and the result of probable neglect. Authorities have alleged that Manny's mother, Alyssa Garcia, 27, who is charged with concealing Manny's death, kept her son in a back room where he would sit neglected.
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"They found him wrapped in a Superman T-shirt, his burned body so tiny that first responders thought he was 9 months old.
Authorities would later discover that 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar spent the last months of his life in the unheated storage room of a Southwest Side two-flat, naked and scared, pounding on the door to beg for food and water.
He was forced to sleep on the bare floor or in a kitty litter box, his siblings told police. Beaten and starved, he died alone with open eyes.
Then his mother, Alyssa Garcia, her teenage boyfriend and the boyfriend's relative stuffed Manny's 27-pound corpse in a bag of towels and clothes and lit the bundle on fire in the basement of an abandoned house in August 2016, Cook County prosecutors allege."
By: David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa EldeibContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune - May 11, 2017
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Rest in Peace Dear Precious Manny
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A victim of child abuse at the hands of his mother.
Manuel "Manny" Aguilar's body was found in a smoldering blanket in the basement of an abandoned house.
The Cook County medical examiner's office has determined the cause of death as homicide and the result of probable neglect. Authorities have alleged that Manny's mother, Alyssa Garcia, 27, who is charged with concealing Manny's death, kept her son in a back room where he would sit neglected.
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"They found him wrapped in a Superman T-shirt, his burned body so tiny that first responders thought he was 9 months old.
Authorities would later discover that 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar spent the last months of his life in the unheated storage room of a Southwest Side two-flat, naked and scared, pounding on the door to beg for food and water.
He was forced to sleep on the bare floor or in a kitty litter box, his siblings told police. Beaten and starved, he died alone with open eyes.
Then his mother, Alyssa Garcia, her teenage boyfriend and the boyfriend's relative stuffed Manny's 27-pound corpse in a bag of towels and clothes and lit the bundle on fire in the basement of an abandoned house in August 2016, Cook County prosecutors allege."
By: David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa EldeibContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune - May 11, 2017
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A victim of child abuse at the hands of his mother.
Manuel "Manny" Aguilar's body was found in a smoldering blanket in the basement of an abandoned house.
The Cook County medical examiner's office has determined the cause of death as homicide and the result of probable neglect. Authorities have alleged that Manny's mother, Alyssa Garcia, 27, who is charged with concealing Manny's death, kept her son in a back room where he would sit neglected.
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"They found him wrapped in a Superman T-shirt, his burned body so tiny that first responders thought he was 9 months old.
Authorities would later discover that 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar spent the last months of his life in the unheated storage room of a Southwest Side two-flat, naked and scared, pounding on the door to beg for food and water.
He was forced to sleep on the bare floor or in a kitty litter box, his siblings told police. Beaten and starved, he died alone with open eyes.
Then his mother, Alyssa Garcia, her teenage boyfriend and the boyfriend's relative stuffed Manny's 27-pound corpse in a bag of towels and clothes and lit the bundle on fire in the basement of an abandoned house in August 2016, Cook County prosecutors allege."
By: David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa EldeibContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune - May 11, 2017
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