After police interviewed the opposite youngsters of the still-missing woman’s mom and her boyfriend — listening to surprising and horrific allegations of abuse — each have been arrested and slapped with new fees.
Warning: This story comprises disturbing particulars of alleged youngster abuse.
Extra heartbreaking particulars have been uncovered concerning the lifetime of a still-missing toddler, with police in Oklahoma Metropolis revealing allegations of bodily and sexual abuse by the hands of Ashley Rowland’s boyfriend, Joshua Denton.
The investigation doesn’t allege that Denton, 40, sexually abused then-2-year-old London Kerr — who Rowland, 39, had beforehand confessed to giving to a meth seller in 2022 who may very well be her father — however sexual abuse is alleged by his personal 8-year-old daughter.
Interviews with Denton’s different youngsters have been a key part of the investigation, as detailed by Regulation&Crime, providing particulars of horrific violence they declare each they and Kerr endured by the hands of their father, earlier than her surprising disappearance three years in the past.
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Rowland had already been hit with a cost of kid abandonment for the disappearance of her daughter. She had bonded out of jail, per ABC affiliate KBTX, however is again behind bars, now additionally dealing with dealing with two counts of enabling youngster abuse by damage and interesting in a sample of felony offenses, in keeping with jail information reviewed by the outlet.
Denton was arrested August 5 alongside Rowland and charged with six counts of kid abuse, and one rely every of sodomy, lewd or indecent proposals or acts to a baby, and interesting in a sample of felony offenses. His whole bond is about at $504,500, whereas Rowland’s is $300,000, per The Oklahoman.
Kerr was first found lacking when the state’s Division of Human Companies couldn’t find the then-toddler throughout a pickup order in 2023, per the newspaper. Rowland had initially instructed investigators the child was together with her father in Georgia
Police are nonetheless actively trying to find Kerr, who would now be 5 years outdated, after her mom finally instructed police she gave the kid to a person named “Carlos,” who she had beforehand bought methamphetamine from. She instructed police on the time that he “may” be Kerr’s father and she or he believed he had taken Kerr to Mexico.
She moreover mentioned that she had not given “Carlos” any of Kerr’s private identification paperwork. However police acknowledged in a press launch on the time that they’d been unable to recuperate any of these paperwork after intensive searches of “a number of properties, storage items, and digital units.”
“Time is of the essence, nonetheless hoping for a constructive turnout on this case, and we don’t have rather a lot to go off of proper now, which makes it extraordinarily tough,” Oklahoma Metropolis Police Sgt. Dillon Quirk instructed ABC affiliate KOCO.
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Different Youngsters Communicate Out
As a part of their investigation into the disappearance of London Kerr, police spoke with Rowland’s older youngsters, aged 15 and 16, who hit them with a laundry checklist of disturbing allegations of bodily and sexual abuse allegedly suffered by the hands of their father, as detailed by The Oklahoman and different retailers.
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