An Arizona woman and her boyfriend are going to prison after their neglect of her 11-year-old special needs son led to his death.
Ariel Lea Horn, 34, received a seven-year prison sentence while her 30-year-old boyfriend Charles Jackson McClellan Jr. will spend three-and-a-half years behind bars, Tucson CBS affiliate KOLD reported. Both will receive credit for the roughly 10 months of jail time already served.
Tucson police said in a press release its investigation began in November 2023 when officers responded to a home in the 900 block of East Limberlost Drive for a report of an unresponsive child. Paramedics from the Tucson Fire Department pronounced the boy dead on scene. Detectives from the agency’s Child Physical Abuse Unit assumed the investigation and after conducting several interviews learned the boy who was “completely dependent on care from his guardians” was suffering from numerous medical conditions. Horn was the boy’s mother…