Boy dead in own filth in locked room; dad, fiancee charged [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

21 minutes ago

ANNVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man and his fiancee imprisoned the man’s 12-year-old son in a darkened room for years, starving him and beating him while treating their other children well, until he was finally found dead in his own filth, authorities said.

Scott Schollenberger Jr., 41, and Kimberly Maurer, 35, of Annville, are each charged with homicide and child endangerment, Pennlive.com reported. Both were held without bail, and it wasn’t known Monday whether either has an attorney to speak for them.

The charges stem from the death of Maxwell Schollenberger, whose body was found May 26. The boy was naked, and his feces-covered body was sprawled across a soiled bed in a room that was also caked with it.

The boy never received medical care, wasn’t enrolled in school and was rarely seen even by his siblings, who lived in the same house with the couple. There were no lights in the boy’s room, and the window shades were closed with duct tape. Metal hooks kept the room locked from the outside.

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'Horrific conditions': Boy, 12, found dead in feces-ridden room; father and fiancee charged
Scott Fremont Schollenberger Jr. and Kimberly Marie Maurer face homicide and related charges.
Ted Czech
York Daily Record

For years, a boy was hidden from the outside world, locked inside a dark, feces-ridden room with little food or water, by the very people who were expected to nurture him.

In May, Annville Township Police, along with members of the Lebanon County Detective Bureau, made the grisly discovery of Maxwell Schollenberger's body in a second-floor room of a home, according to charging documents.

"Both the bed and the victim's body were wholly covered in fecal matter," documents state. "The door and its frame contained three metal hooks ... to lock the child in his bedroom."

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"Claw marks appeared in the child victim’s sheets," according to a news release from Lebanon County District Attorney's office. "Max Schollenberger’s bedroom was entirely devoid of light and furniture, aside from the bed wherein he died. The bedroom’s windows contained shades and doors. The shades were taped to the window frames and the doors were screwed shut; the window coverings rendered the child unable to see in or out."

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https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2020/09/14/boy-12-found-dead-feces-ridden-room-father-and-fiancee-charged/5791418002/