Aaron Cody Stepp had Some Lousy Guardians

[DarkPrincess]

Missing Three Year Old

Detectives think that Aaron Cody Stepp may have been missing for nearly a year before his aunt and grandma reported him missing.
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Aaron Cody Stepp, who went by Cody, was too young to understand the hardships that he had already endured. Cody's mom, Robyn Stepp, was arrested when Cody was just a few months old. She was sentenced to serve 17 months for two theft convictions.
Because Robyn was in jail, her sister, Mickey Stepp, got legal custody of the little boy. Also living with Mickey and Cody in their Columbus, Ohio home was Janice Stiles, Robyn and Mickey's mother. According to police, Mickey and Janice were not exactly doting caretakers. Police say that they used to give Cody away to different people for 2-3 weeks at a time, just so they could have a break from the child.
On March 11, 1997, Mickey and Janice called the police to report little Cody missing. Mickey had gone grocery shopping, and said that she thought Janice was watching Cody. But Janice said she thought that Cody went with Mickey. And both claimed that the last time they remembered seeing him was playing in their neighbor's backyard.

http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=46759

It's a long story, so I only posted a snippet. It reminds me a lot of the Caylee Anthony case.

[Morticia]

I hope someone took that baby who was living in the grip of chaos and he is somewhere safe and happy.

I truly wish that that is the case, so many ugly stories related to child endangerment seem to surface. Just this one time I'm hoping.......

[penelopejo]

When Janice's daughters were as young as 12 and 13-years-old, they were whored out by their own mother.

WOW!!!

They think that Cody could have been sold into a human trafficking ring, possibly even for child pornography, at the tender and innocent age of two.

Even more WOW from me.......just amazing. I really hope he is alive and not in the hands of a pedo or a trafficking ring....I hope and pray he isn't dead after all these years. I hope and pray they find him just like they found Shawn Hornbeck..

[justmeintn]

Cops also say that Janice was a pimp ... and she used her daughters as her working girls. When Janice's daughters were as young as 12 and 13-years-old, they were whored out by their own mother.

Detectives also learned of a suspicious death in Janice's home ... that of her own child. Records show that Janice's two-year-old daughter, Tennie, died in 1964. The cause of death was listed as bronchitis, but decades later, cops don't believe that was the true cause. They allege that Janice might have killed the little girl, who had third degree burns all over her body. Cops say she was never taken to the hospital, and died as a result of her injuries. Saying that reading the autopsy report of the young girl is completely sickening and disturbing, detectives today don't understand why she wasn't charged with murder then, but that it's too late to do so now.



Why did they have custody in the first place?

[DarkPrincess]

Cops also say that Janice was a pimp ... and she used her daughters as her working girls. When Janice's daughters were as young as 12 and 13-years-old, they were whored out by their own mother.

Detectives also learned of a suspicious death in Janice's home ... that of her own child. Records show that Janice's two-year-old daughter, Tennie, died in 1964. The cause of death was listed as bronchitis, but decades later, cops don't believe that was the true cause. They allege that Janice might have killed the little girl, who had third degree burns all over her body. Cops say she was never taken to the hospital, and died as a result of her injuries. Saying that reading the autopsy report of the young girl is completely sickening and disturbing, detectives today don't understand why she wasn't charged with murder then, but that it's too late to do so now.



Why did they have custody in the first place?

They probably didn't have anyone else who would take him. Plus I don't think anyone knew about all these skeletons in their closet, until after he disappeared.

[Nell]

Detectives also learned of a suspicious death in Janice's home ... that of her own child. Records show that Janice's two-year-old daughter, Tennie, died in 1964. The cause of death was listed as bronchitis, but decades later, cops don't believe that was the true cause. They allege that Janice might have killed the little girl, who had third degree burns all over her body. Cops say she was never taken to the hospital, and died as a result of her injuries. Saying that reading the autopsy report of the young girl is completely sickening and disturbing, detectives today don't understand why she wasn't charged with murder then, but that it's too late to do so now.

Why is it too late? I thought murder charges had no statute of limitations.

[Peeperann]

Why is it too late? I thought murder charges had no statute of limitations.

Me too, have never heard of murder ever having a limitation on it..........

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Why is it too late? I thought murder charges had no statute of limitations.

probably because the cause of death was not listed as homicide. They would have to re-do things that they no longer have the evidence for. Just a guess...

[Abroad]

But they have an autopsy report that "is completely sickening and disturbing"?

[Abroad]

http://www.examiner.com/article/3-ye...15-years-later

Even though 3-year-old Aaron Cody Stepp was reported missing from the backyard on Hosack St., no one seemed to remember seeing him there. Even more strange is that other family members reported to investigators that they had not seen little Cody for several months. No toys or clothing was found to even indicate Cody lived with his aunt and grandmother. His own mother, released from prison just a day after Cody went missing, according to The Charley Project, stated that her mother and aunt had refused to let her speak to her son and that she had not talked to him for more than a year before he was reported missing.

Even with mounting suspicion that foul play was involved in the disappearance of Aaron Cody Stepp, Columbus police have never been able to definitively link Cody’s grandmother, his aunt, now deceased, or anyone else to his disappearance.

They only reported him missing, because his mother was going to be released from gaol and would be coming for him soon.

[VXIII]

Saying that reading the autopsy report of the young girl is completely sickening and disturbing, detectives today don't understand why she wasn't charged with murder then, but that it's too late to do so now.

They have arrested people 50 and 60 years later due to autopsy evidence, 3rd degree burns? Now another one is missing and probobly has been missing since his mom went to jail. This Janice seems like an evil piece of shit, pimping out her own children, I want to see her pic...