07-28-2011, 04:41 PM
'Hide-and-seek' death ruled a homicide; 4 arrested
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PHOENIX -- Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the July 12 death of a 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a small container.
Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story.
According to the Phoenix Police Department, Ame Lynn Deal was forced into the toy chest as punishment for poor behavior. The container was padlocked shut and the girl was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road.
The suspects admitted to detectives that Ame was being punished for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator.
During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the box to hide and had accidently suffocated.
John Allen and Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were charged with first-degree murder.
Cynthia Stoltzmann, 44, and Judith Deal, 62, admitted to previously confining the child in the box as punishment. They were charged with child abuse and kidnapping.
The human waste that killed this child!
http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/4-arr...lery-image
PHOENIX -- Phoenix police homicide investigators have arrested four people in connection to the July 12 death of a 10-year-old girl whose body was found inside a small container.
Police originally thought a game of hide-and-seek had turned deadly but now say family members fabricated the story.
According to the Phoenix Police Department, Ame Lynn Deal was forced into the toy chest as punishment for poor behavior. The container was padlocked shut and the girl was left in it overnight at her home near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road.
The suspects admitted to detectives that Ame was being punished for stealing a Popsicle from the refrigerator.
During the initial investigation, the family had told police that Ame and other children were playing hide-and-seek and they believed that Ame must have climbed into the box to hide and had accidently suffocated.
John Allen and Samantha Allen, both 23, confessed to placing and padlocking Ame in the box on July 12. They were charged with first-degree murder.
Cynthia Stoltzmann, 44, and Judith Deal, 62, admitted to previously confining the child in the box as punishment. They were charged with child abuse and kidnapping.
The human waste that killed this child!