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| Victim: 2-year-old Kylen Shangreaux |
The biological mother, Katrina Shangreaux is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, neglect and assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a minor.
Tragic Kylen Shangreaux was found to have suffered horrendous injuries before he died. The child had evidence of bruising and bite marks, post-mortem exam revealed.
The exam also revealed that the toddler was killed as a result of blows to the head and abdomen in Porcupine, South Dakota in July.
It also found evidence Kylen's scrotum had been torn, with prosecutors claiming this was evidence of his mother Katrina Shangreaux, 28, having been enraged by a potty training incident.
Investigators now say Katrina Shangreaux's mother Sonya Dubray, 47, was also complicit in the crime.
She faces charges of tampering with evidence, accessory to first-degree murder, making a false statement and misprision of a felony.
The child was dead by the time an ambulance transported him to hospital on the day of the allege attack.
Dubray is accused of tampering with case evidence by washing the clothing worn by the deceased child, as well as by “cleaning the scene of the murder” with bleach or a similar substance.
Her charging document also says she helped Shangreaux evade the authorities; that she concealed the toddler’s abuse by not reporting it to authorities; and misled law enforcement regarding the extent of the abuse.
Justice for Kylen page was created by change.org to stop child abuse.
