Father Of Starved 12-Year-Old Arrested After Evading Capture For Months

A Wisconsin father accused of starving his 12-year-old son to death was captured on Sunday, months after the boy’s older brother found his sibling’s decomposing body.

Romuan Moye was arrested and charged with several child neglect felonies, including failure to report the death of a child and reckless homicide in the death of his son. Milwaukee police said the boy was starved to death, according to court records and a criminal complaint obtained by HuffPost.

Media outlets have identified the boy as Jacarie Robinson. According to the criminal complaint against his father, Robinson’s 22-year-old brother arrived at the father’s Milwaukee home on Oct. 10 to find his younger brother dead.

Jacarie’s brother entered his father’s home and was “immediately struck” by a strong odor, then discovered “a human foot protruding from covers on the living room floor,” the complaint stated, citing a police officer’s interview with the brother.

When the 22-year-old pulled the covers back, he found Jacarie already dead and “his face eaten up,” the document said.

“I don’t even know how to fucking feel right now,” the brother told police during his interview. Police noted in the document that Jacarie’s body was in an “advanced state of decomposition.”Maggots covered his face, and there were several drops of dried blood towards his feet. A police detective noted that the boy appeared to be “extremely malnourished.”

During his interview with police, the brother said their father had kept Jacarie away from the family for months and would not let him leave the home, according to the complaint. The last time the older brother saw his younger sibling alive was on Aug. 19, he told police.

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