Rampant Abuse and Murders of Children

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Akron Ohio. poor little boy. :(









Heather Lerch lived in this Akron-area house with three men; it is believed they were running a meth lab out of it








Tragic details are emerging in the death of a 17-month old boy who was found unresponsive in his crib last month at a suspected meth house.

Police have named the death of Patrick Nicholas Lerch as suspicious.

The toddler was found unresponsive in his crib last month with bruises covering his face; he later died.

His mother, 20-year-old Heather Lerch, has been described as flighty and fickle, caring for her son one day, hating him the next, and putting priorities on her looks rather than her maternal responsibilities.

‘She just really didn’t know how to act in a relationship. Patrick was not a priority,’ Patrick’s paternal grandmother Betty Caskey told the Akron Beacon Journal.

Heather Lerch had moved in with a friend, Kimberly Clark, and her husband – a relative of Lerch's mother – after they took pity on her.

Lerch and Patrick had been living for several months before that at Harvest Home, a homeless shelter specifically for mothers and their children in Akron.

A week before Christmas, Ms Clark said Lerch started bringing a new boyfriend, Randy Legg, to her Barberton home.

‘The whole time they were (at home), they completely ignored that baby,’ Ms Clark told the Journal.

"I fed him, took care of him, and put him in his pajamas for the night.’

That’s when Lerch started spending the night at a house on St. Leger Avenue in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood of Akron.

There was something sinister happening in the middle-class home in the quiet neighborhood, Ms Clark said.

She noted that one morning, Lerch brought Patrick back to her house with a black eye and bad diaper rash.

She also said that ‘his little voice was hoarse.’

When the Barberton police investigated, Lerch said Patrick had simply fallen while at play; no police report was filed.

Leading up to Valentine’s Day, Lerch announced she was going to stay at the St. Leger house – Ms Clark said if she wanted to live there, Lerch was no longer welcome in her home.

She alerted child protective services on February 13 that little Patrick was going to live at the suspected drug house.

According to the Summit County Medical Examiner, Patrick had ‘apparent bruising’ on his face. Lerch said he merely ‘ran and fell often.’

Heather Lerch was arrested on multiple felony charges related to the meth lab, including child endangering and illegal assembly of chemicals.

Three men, Ronald Legg, 22, Randy Legg, 19, and Allen Kostra, 24, were arrested on the same charges.

No one has been charged in connection with Patrick’s death.