[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] The state of Kansas is paying out $1 million to the family of a little boy who was brutally tortured and murdered by his father and stepmother nearly a decade ago. Adrian Jones was just seven years old when he died in 2015.
He was living with his father Michael Jones and stepmother Heather Jones in Kansas City, Kansas.
His death wasn’t reported to authorities — or even noticed by anyone — for quite some time. That is until cops responded to a domestic violence call at the Jones’ property in November 2015.
There, officers learned the boy hadn’t been seen by anybody for months. Detectives began digging into clues, and days later some of Adrian’s remains were discovered in a barn on the property where Michael and Heather had kept pigs and chickens.
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