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An 8-year-old boy who was found dead Friday night in a home off North Green Street likely died several days before he was discovered, according to the county district attorney and police.
[...]
"It's an ongoing investigation at this point, we do have a deceased individual, a child, and that's really all I can release," said city police Capt. Colin Cleary.

Cleary later disclosed the child's age, and confirmed that both parents had been taken from the scene for questioning. The mother and father left the scene — both in handcuffs — in separate police cruisers, but Cleary emphasized that no charges were filed as of Friday night.

The couple's five remaining children — several of whom suffer from undisclosed medical conditions — were being handed over to the care of county children and youth specialists as of Friday night pending further investigation
[...]
"It's certainly suspicious, but what caused the death will await the autopsy," Marsico said, adding that the autopsy would likely take place early Monday.

The district attorney also discussed the 'unsanitary conditions' police and investigators found inside the home, as well as evidence suggesting the child had likely died several days before police discovered his body.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/08/child_found_dead_in_harrisburg.html

Update
Jarrod Nicholas Tutko, 38, was charged with endangering the welfare of children, concealing the death of a child and abuse of a corpse early Saturday morning, according to court records.
[...]
Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico confirmed this morning that Tutko is the father of household.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/08/father_charged_in_case_of_dead.html#incart_river
 
This is absolutely insane.

A way to get benefits for taking care of a child with special needs without having to take care of the child? I am eager to find out the results of the autopsy. No matter what this child didn't get the care or love they deserved. :(
 
Who wants to bet starvation? Who wants to bet some type of infection due to deplorable state of home? Taking bets, taking bets now. . . . . I'll bet an agree for starvation and a wtf for infectious wound. . . . . what you wanna bet, step on up and make your bets. . . . . Do I hear two for wtfs and another for agree. . . come on . . . don't get cheap on rates now. . . . .make your bets. . .
 
Inside the squalid home where an eight-year-old's death went unnoticed by his mother for DAYS until the rancid stench became unbearable
  • The child was dead for four days until father Jarrod Tutko told his wife Kimberly Tutko what happened
  • The eight-year-old suffered from multiple disabilities including autism and failure to thrive - he did not even attend school
  • Kimberly Tutko claims she only found out her son had died after asking her husband about the rancid stench in the home
  • Their home is covered in filth, with feces even smeared on the walls in at least one room
  • It is not known exactly how the young boy died
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714215/Mom-I-didnt-know-boy-dead-smell-set-in.html
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The father: Jarrod Tutko claims he told his wife of the boy's death only after the stench of his rancid body became too much to bear
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Squalid: The filth-ridden house was home to six children in total, most of them reportedly suffering from some form of disability
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House of horrors: A disabled eight-year-old boy died in this Harrisburg, Pennsylvania home - where feces is smeared on the walls - and his mother did not know for days, she claims
 
I read the article, and it sounds like dad was the primary caretaker for the boy. I don't particularly care about that part, as I am more concerned about what kind of mother lives in the same house as her child and goes days not seeing him. The way she made it sound in the article, she was devoted solely to the care of her disabled daughter. Sorry, lady, but there's more than one child there... Maybe if you'd have paid that boy more attention he'd still be alive.
 
I have a 16 year old son and my husband has a 16 year old son and together we have an almost 4 year old. I primarily take care of mine and he takes care of his. My husbands son has type 1 diabetes and is sick a lot and I don't really have to much to do with his care but I do know where he is, I notice if he is drinking a huge pop, or eating too much of something, and I definitely know when his blood sugar is off and he is either too sick or to confused and needs help. I understand that these kids needed much much more care than my stepson and they had a lot on their plate, but how the hell do you not notice anything but a smell?..... And I get the lack of furniture for the boy was most likely because of him damaging things but couldn't the kid at least have a mattress and blanket? WTF!!

Edit to add.. How the fuck do you go to sleep, eat, shower, knowing that your dead boy is in the house.
 
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Inside the squalid home where an eight-year-old's death went unnoticed by his mother for DAYS until the rancid stench became unbearable
  • The child was dead for four days until father Jarrod Tutko told his wife Kimberly Tutko what happened
  • The eight-year-old suffered from multiple disabilities including autism and failure to thrive - he did not even attend school
  • Kimberly Tutko claims she only found out her son had died after asking her husband about the rancid stench in the home
  • Their home is covered in filth, with feces even smeared on the walls in at least one room
  • It is not known exactly how the young boy died
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714215/Mom-I-didnt-know-boy-dead-smell-set-in.html
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The father: Jarrod Tutko claims he told his wife of the boy's death only after the stench of his rancid body became too much to bear
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Squalid: The filth-ridden house was home to six children in total, most of them reportedly suffering from some form of disability
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House of horrors: A disabled eight-year-old boy died in this Harrisburg, Pennsylvania home - where feces is smeared on the walls - and his mother did not know for days, she claims

Holy. Shit.

I feel like I need a shower.

How do you let your sick children live in a home like that?
 
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The only picture of the kid in the article is from when he was an infant. Did no one take any other pictures of him in eight years? :(
 
The boys room was the only dirty one in the house. The rest of the house was clean. Obviously the dad did a shitty job caring for him and it was moms responsibility to see that and do something about it. This was completely avoidable.
 
Jarrod Jr. was kept on the third floor of the home and was primarily cared for by his father, Kimberly Tutko said.
That statement right there pretty much sums it up for me.

Silverware is 'kept' in a drawer, extra blankets are 'kept' in a linen closet- a DISABLED CHILD is not an object to be 'kept' or stored away in a certain place in your house!

But that's exactly what they did to little Jarrod- because according to mom, he was a handful: disabled, destructive, smeared feces- she had other kids to worry about- so rather than deal with him, just keep him up in the attic!

Even if they had decided to divide up the workload of caring for their sick/disabled children (putting dad in charge of Jarrod Jr. & mom in charge of the daughter) that shouldn't mean she completely washes her hands of her son?! By her own account, she hadn't even seen him in at least 4 days! What about dinner time? Or playtime in the backyard? Or a goodnight kiss?!

IMO they are both responsible for 'keeping' little Jarred locked away in that disgusting attic, stored away up there like a broken lamp, left in filth to die all alone!
 
My 6-year old is autistic, has horrible messy poop accidents, often breaks his toys (on purpose), etc. I am lucky because he is very high functioning- verbal and sweet and very smart. But even if he was a mess of a child, even if every day was filled with changing his diapers and fighting to bring him out to connect with the world right outside his body I would do it. Because I am my children's parent. No matter how perfect or "flawed" our children are born unto us without their permission and only because of *our* actions. Any parent that can willingly treat their offspring this way should bear the same treatment for the rest of their days.
 
My 6-year old is autistic, has horrible messy poop accidents, often breaks his toys (on purpose), etc. I am lucky because he is very high functioning- verbal and sweet and very smart. But even if he was a mess of a child, even if every day was filled with changing his diapers and fighting to bring him out to connect with the world right outside his body I would do it. Because I am my children's parent. No matter how perfect or "flawed" our children are born unto us without their permission and only because of *our* actions. Any parent that can willingly treat their offspring this way should bear the same treatment for the rest of their days.
@thehesbomb , that's exactly how I feel about this story-- she should be held just as accountable as the dad, she knew her son was being 'kept' in that filthy attic & didn't even bother to do so much as check on him.

*Hugs & respect to you for being one of the "Super Hero" parents out there who face challenges everyday with a disabled child & respond with love & patience- You really are the bomb!!!<3
 
My 6-year old is autistic, has horrible messy poop accidents, often breaks his toys (on purpose), etc. I am lucky because he is very high functioning- verbal and sweet and very smart. But even if he was a mess of a child, even if every day was filled with changing his diapers and fighting to bring him out to connect with the world right outside his body I would do it. Because I am my children's parent. No matter how perfect or "flawed" our children are born unto us without their permission and only because of *our* actions. Any parent that can willingly treat their offspring this way should bear the same treatment for the rest of their days.
I am so glad you are blessed with a sweet boy, and so very impressed with any parent that can do the duties of "normal" parenting let alone having to do all the extras that I imagine you have to do with an autistic child.
 
But even if he was a mess of a child, even if every day was filled with changing his diapers and fighting to bring him out to connect with the world right outside his body I would do it. Because I am my children's parent.
See, I don't know if I would have that in me. I mean, almost certainly, I could. But it's completely plausible that I might just be like "Nope, done, can't handle one more poopy wall." This is one of many reasons I have chosen never to be a parent.

But if I did decide I couldn't handle it, I would either ask someone for help or give the kid up. I definitely would not just kill him/let him die and then hang out with his fucking corpse for a few days. I mean, what the fuck.
 
This is so heartbreaking to me. Even though it's not explicitly spelled out, the implications of this story are horrifying. As others have pointed out, the mother didn't notice anything was amiss until she started to smell her son decomposing. How many days passed with her not seeing him AT ALL??? Not to bathe him, nor to bring him meals, to change his diaper, to read him a story, to kiss him goodnight... the list goes on and on and on. Her excuse about being responsible for the other disabled child is absolute bullshit.

But even if it was a viable explanation, none of the other children saw this little boy in days, either. And this didn't raise an alarm with anyone. The only way that could happen is if they were accustomed to never seeing him. I just picture him constantly locked away in that hellish room, completely alone and unloved. Not a single toy or teddy bear in sight. Literally nothing to hold or to snuggle but a few filthy strips of shit-streaked carpet. And the only photo they can provide is one of him as an infant. How many years was this poor child unloved and essentially forgotten? That bedroom was nothing more than a modern day oubliette.
 
This is so heartbreaking to me. Even though it's not explicitly spelled out, the implications of this story are horrifying. As others have pointed out, the mother didn't notice anything was amiss until she started to smell her son decomposing. How many days passed with her not seeing him AT ALL??? Not to bathe him, nor to bring him meals, to change his diaper, to read him a story, to kiss him goodnight... the list goes on and on and on. Her excuse about being responsible for the other disabled child is absolute bullshit.

But even if it was a viable explanation, none of the other children saw this little boy in days, either. And this didn't raise an alarm with anyone. The only way that could happen is if they were accustomed to never seeing him. I just picture him constantly locked away in that hellish room, completely alone and unloved. Not a single toy or teddy bear in sight. Literally nothing to hold or to snuggle but a few filthy strips of shit-streaked carpet. And the only photo they can provide is one of him as an infant. How many years was this poor child unloved and essentially forgotten? That bedroom was nothing more than a modern day oubliette.

I agree with everything you said...

This story breaks my heart. This poor little boy. With the right environment this little boy could have blossomed and developed. He could have truly loved his life, instead he was cooped up in that room all alone. That is the treatment you give hardened criminals, not kids who need help.
 
*Hugs & respect to you for being one of the "Super Hero" parents out there who face challenges everyday with a disabled child & respond with love & patience- You really are the bomb!!!

Awww, thanks. I am spoiled because he is incredibly easy to love despite whatever "struggles" we face together ~ besides what parent doesn't struggle?!? I am truly the lucky one.
 
She noticed he was dead because of the stench? So what it changed from shit to death?
Horrifying.
 
I just cannot get my head around somebody - a MOTHER at that -living in the same house as her 8 year old Disabled Son and not seeing , hearing or even thinking of him for DAYS until she noticed his rotting body smell wafting down from the shit enclose hell hole that this poor child was kept in. This is just too much WTF for my brain today.

Just shit everywhere, where there was no one to spend time with this little boy, put a diaper on properly, supervise him so if he did get in a mess , at least he could be supported and the place cleaned. Nothing to stimulate his mind, nothing to calm or soothe him, nothing but filth . It doesn't matter if he had problems and was 'destructive', he was a human being with needs and feelings, thoughts and emotions. He was as vulnerable as a baby and they did this to him. If he was too much for them to handle and they couldn't cope, why didn't they give him up to foster care, anything but this.

This boy would have been better off in a third world zoo than here. That is just un-fucking-believable .

As for the Father - I hope someone locks him in a cell with no toilet until he dies surrounded by his own shit, too.
 
It really bothers me that the boy had a t.v. in his room, if they were willing to risk damage to a t.v. then why couldn't he have a bed or some toys. I am wondering if the feces smearing had more to do with being treated like a caged animal as opposed to any disability.
 
This is really getting to me that blanket or sheet or whatever the hell it is, was all he had to sleep with and it is pure filth, even in death no one bothered to give him anything clean. Mom new that her boy was living in a shit filled jail cell and she new he had to be covered in shit and she didn't ask "hey I noticed our shit covered prisoner hasn't been bathed in 4 days what's going on?) or " why haven't you brought breakfast lunch or dinner upstairs". This was the norm for them I am glad this kids suffering is over, I hope its mom and dads turn to see what life in a prison is like.
 
It really bothers me that the boy had a t.v. in his room, if they were willing to risk damage to a t.v. then why couldn't he have a bed or some toys. I am wondering if the feces smearing had more to do with being treated like a caged animal as opposed to any disability.

This.

I thought the exact same thing. This poor little guy was acting out due to the way he was treated... not just because of his condition.
 
I can't understand why the lazy fuck for a father couldn't even clean u his sons room. He let his corpse rot in that shit filled room. Poor kid. . . can you imagine what he must have looked like when he died. Shit matted hair. Feces covering most if not all his body. That plus its summer as he was up in an attic decomposing. . . they pos father just left him there on a bare floor covered in shit. . . . couldnt even wash him some bedding and lay him down after a wet sponge bath. . . . He was ignored his whole life and treated like shit, even after death. . . . so so sooo sad and heartbreaking. . . .
 
From an article posted:

"'My daughter relies on me,' Kimberly Tutko said. 'I take care of her and my husband takes care of Jarrod Jr.'

The daughter is autistic and in a vegetative state. She eats from a feeding tube, is blind, has a collapsed lung and is confined to a bed."



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...know-boy-dead-smell-set-in.html#ixzz39QdEMAe0

It sounds as if the daughter needed constant care and supervision. This in no way negates the mothers responsibilities to ALL of her children. There is help out there for the asking. I don't understand locking a child away because they are disabled/a handful or any of the other ridiculous reasons these people give.
I have 2 autistic grandbabies that I am the main caretaker of and I just couldn't imagine locking them up for their different way of dealing with our world. I work with them constantly and either I try to bring them into my world or I am trying to go into their world as much as I can. We are connected...sometimes at the hip even though the 1 year old can't be held for more than 10 to 15 minutes. He will run through the house in his walker just to make sure that I am at hand if I'm trying to get a little housework done. These 2 children are the sweetest little kids in the world as far as I'm concerned and I couldn't fathom locking them up. To do that would be to guarantee that they could never become the best that they can be. My granddaughter was diagnosed moderate-sever autism at 2.5 years old. She will soon be 5 and is now diagnosed as mild. She has put in a lot of hard work and I am so very proud of her!!! Where would she be if she had been locked up??
My tears fall for you little guy. I wish you had been born to this family. RIP darling boy
 
This has been in my local paper and I want more than almost anything to drive down and beat these "parents" within an inch of their miserable lives!

I understand that the majority of their children have disabilities and I'm sure it's beyond hard, but here's a couple of things: I'm in PA and I have an autistic child, there are services available where I am and I'm so far removed from the bigger cities that it isn't even funny. She would have had LOTS of help available to her. But let's say I believe that she didn't. Guess what, THEY chose to have those children (I didn't notice if they are bio or adopted but regardless, they still chose) and with that choice comes the responsibility to ALL of them! There is absolutely ZERO excuse to not even so much as check on one of your children until you smell the Goddamn decomp! I don't give a rat's ass that it was her husband's job to take care of the son, she is still his Goddamn mother and the very least she owed him as such was allowing him to see her face on a regular basis. So, the daughter is extremely low functioning autistic, she still has to sleep, walk your happy ass up the stairs and peek in on your other child.

Bottom line: They both deserve to be locked in a filthy room and left there to rot in their own excrement.
 
I understand that the majority of their children have disabilities and I'm sure it's beyond hard, but here's a couple of things: I'm in PA and I have an autistic child, there are services available where I am and I'm so far removed from the bigger cities that it isn't even funny. She would have had LOTS of help available to her.
That changes everything!! If there was "LOTS of help available to her" then they BOTH need to fry! I was thinking that if the daughter was in a possible life threatening condition (collapsed lung) then she might have been temporarily out of her loop and a poo flinger can mess up a room in almost no time at all. I still wondered about the third floor. Please excuse my rainbow fart glasses. I've removed them. :mad:
 
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