Remains found in search for missing Oklahoma child Athena Brownfield
The remains were found in rural Grady County just outside of Rush Springs, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in an afternoon“The remains will be transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Oklahoma City for positive identification,” the law enforcement agency said. “This is an active homicide investigation and until the remains are positively identified, the OSBI will not be commenting further.
Ivon Adams, 36, was accused of killing Brownfield when he allegedly hit her multiple times, prosecutors said,His wife, Alysia Adams, told an OSBI agent that her husband beat the girl around midnight and held her up by the arms, according to a court affidavit cited by the newspaper.The search for the child became a recovery effort, authorities said.Athena “was not moving and her eyes were barely open,” she told police, according to the affidavit.
Alysia Adams, 31, was cuffed and charged with two counts of child neglect. The OSBI said she was related to the young sisters, but did not reveal how. The sisters’ biological parents have been interviewed by authorities and are cooperating with the probe, state authorities said. Athena’s sister was taken into protective custody.With Post wires
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