The Associated Press generally does not identify people who claim they are victims of sexual abuse or their family members. The boy was temporarily put in foster care and then was transferred to live with an aunt and an uncle. Prosecutors said the boy lived in squalor and didn't know how to use eating utensils or tie his shoelaces when removed from his Plymouth, Luzerne County, home in August 2010. Courtesy Cassandra BeachSunny run: Elijah Beach and his mom.
It was unclear how much prison time they would face. Tribune-Star/Austen Leake Cassandra and Elijah Beach approach the Phillips Bridge in Parke County during a run on May 14. The mother will be sentenced in February. A judge postponed sentencing in that case until after the conclusion of the case involving the son. The father also was convicted in April on 13 charges he sexually abused two underage girls between 20. It convicted the father, 53, of conspiracy to commit rape of a child, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and distributing explicit sexual material to minors. The mother and the father took the witness stand in their own defense and denied the allegations.īut a jury in Wilkes-Barre convicted the mother, 45, of rape of a child, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and incest.
