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Ivon Adams, one of many caretakers for 4-year-old Athena Brownfield when she disappeared, allegedly beat her to loss of life and buried her close to their outdated home, based on court docket paperwork within the case towards him.
Authorities first found that Athena was lacking on January 10, after her 5-year-old sister was seen by a mail service wandering unattended outdoors of a house within the Oklahoma city of Cyril. Adams and his spouse have been arrested and charged within the case final week. On Tuesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation introduced it recovered the stays of a kid and that they are going to be taken to a health worker’s workplace for optimistic identification.
The affidavit for Adams’ arrest alleges that his spouse, Alysia Adams, confessed to authorities in a January 12 interview that her husband beat Athena on Christmas night time and “held her up by her arms.”
Athena was “not transferring and her eyes have been barely open,” the affidavit alleged.
Ivon Adams then “laid her on the bottom and punched her a minimum of three extra instances within the chest,” and the kid didn’t transfer after that, Alysia Adams allegedly advised police, based on the affidavit.
Ivon Adams allegedly then took Athena’s physique and “buried her close to a fence line” near their outdated house in Rush Springs, based on the court docket doc. He additionally allegedly advised his spouse he positioned a “giant damaged department” over the location, based on the affidavit.
In its Tuesday announcement, the state’s bureau of investigation mentioned the kid stays have been recovered in rural Grady County, “outdoors of Rush Springs.”
Ivon Adams, who was arrested Thursday in Arizona, faces one rely of homicide within the first diploma and felony youngster neglect, based on on-line data for Caddo County, Oklahoma, District Courtroom. He stays in custody with out bond in Maricopa County, Arizona, based on on-line data. He had not but entered a plea on Tuesday and CNN has not been capable of establish an lawyer for him.
His spouse, Alysia Adams, is dealing with two counts of felony youngster neglect. She is accused of failing to correctly take care of the youngsters and of “failing to guard (Athena) from bodily abuse” by her husband, based on the charging doc filed Tuesday in Caddo County District Courtroom.
In response to an affidavit in her case, the youngsters’s organic mom left the ladies within the couple’s care roughly two years earlier, however the pair didn’t take them to the physician for check-ups and didn’t enroll Athena’s older sister in class.
A not responsible plea was entered on Alysia Adams’ behalf throughout a court docket listening to.
Alysia Adams stays in custody in Caddo County after she was arrested final week. An Oklahoma decide set a bond of $500,000 for her on Tuesday.
CNN reached out to an lawyer for Alysia Adams for remark.
