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The three family members are each being held on $2 million bail, the district attorney’s office said.
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Deputies performing a welfare check on a boy at his apartment found him dead in a cooler full of ice, California prosecutors say.
Now, the boy’s parents and grandmother are accused of “killing and torturing” the boy and have been charged in connection with his death, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in an Oct. 31 news release.
Destiny Luckie Harrison, 25; Daniel Alberto Monzon, 25; and Ana Carcamo Zarceno, 45, are each facing felony counts of “murder, torture and child abuse resulting in death with allegations that they caused willful harm resulting in death,” prosecutors said.
Attorney information for the family was not immediately available.
“The horrific abuse that Isaiah endured is made even worse by the fact that, as alleged, it was at the hands of the people who were meant to love and protect him,” District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in the release.
Los Angeles County deputies responded to a report of a possibly dead child at a Lynwood apartment shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, the sheriff’s department said in a news release.
Deputies responded to the apartment to do a welfare check on the child; however, when deputies entered, they found the boy dead, the sheriff’s department said. Prosecutors said the boy is “believed to be 8 years old at the time of his death.”
Los Angeles County Fire Department rescuers pronounced the boy dead on scene, the sheriff’s department said, adding that deputies detained the boy’s mother, father and grandmother.
Prosecutors said the boy is believed to have been “abused by his mother, father and paternal grandmother over a long period of time.”
The child died from his injuries Friday, Oct. 24, “and his body was found days later in a cooler filled with ice,” prosecutors said.
“No child should have to endure this heinous abuse and pain,” Homicide Captain Art Spencer said in the release.
In addition to murder, torture and child abuse, Monzon and Zarceno are also charged with “being accessories after the fact,” prosecutors said.
The three family members are each being held on $2 million bail, the district attorney’s office said.
“If convicted as charged, they each face 32 years to life in state prison,” prosecutors said.
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Daniella Segura
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