WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) Police suspect that a man may have beaten his seven-year-old son to death and then fed his remains to pigs.
Michael A. Jones, aged 44, of Piper, outside of Kansas City, has been arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, aggravated battery and child abuse after cops responded to a domestic violence call on Wednesday, according to News2.
Jones had reportedly shot at his 29-year-old wife, Heather. As the investigation progressed, authorities got a tip to check the property for the remains of Jones’ seven-year-old son, who had been missing for several months.
The next day, authorities found human remains near a barn on the rural property in Piper, where Jones lived with his wife and eight children ranging in ages from one to 11.
Jones’ charges were upgraded to ‘torturing or cruelly beating’ his missing son. Heather Jones is not the mother of the boy, who may be dead.
The other eight children reportedly lived in deplorable conditions. They were also home schooled, according to Kansas City Star.
Heather Jones bought the pigs in September, around the same time authorities think the child may have been killed.
A police source reportedly told the outlet that authorities feared that the boy’s remains may have been fed to the swine, according to KPTV.
Michael Williams, the brother of Jones’ wife, told the NBC affiliate KSHB about abuse he says his sister and the children allegedly had to endure over the years at the hands of Jones.
‘There are bullet holes in the walls of that house. So I’m sure you can understand what terror may have been going through that household daily.’
Jones, the owner of a bail bonding business, is being held at the Wyandotte County Jail on a bond of $10million.
Authorities ask that anyone with information about the case call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news.
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