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A couple charged with beating their five year-old adopted son to death and leaving his brain 'obliterated' posted a fundraiser online to pay for their attorneys.
Lauren, 34, and Jacob Maloberti, 33, a corrections officer at Fayette State Correctional Center in Pennsylvania, are accused of violently abusing Landon, 5, causing blunt force trauma to his head and neck.
Police probed the couple after they brought the unresponsive schoolboy into AHN Hempfield Neighborhood Hospital on January 30, claiming he had been 'wobbly from COVID a month prior.'
Hospital staff claimed Lauren showed no urgency when they arrived, with the couple waiting an entire day after allegedly inflicting the injuries to get him medical attention in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Just two days after they are accused of beating little Landon so badly he suffered three bleeds on the brain, Lauren set up a GoFundMe initially asking for help with legal fees and then funeral costs.
The fundraiser, which has since been removed, raised $5,350 with Lauren begging for sympathy before her adopted son died on February 7.
She wrote: 'Tragedy struck our family when our precious baby boy went unresponsive. I rushed him to the ER and they intubated him and he's been unresponsive ever since. the outcome is not looking good.
'As we were in the hospital CPS took away our parental rights pending the investigation.
'I'm devastated. We are devastated. We both need good attorneys. My kids are my world. Any little bit helps us as we navigate life right now with our new uncertainty.
'Help us fight I can't live without our kids. I'm already loosing my boy.'
It was later updated to say they had to prepare for the 'most unimaginable outcome' and her heart was 'breaking in a million pieces'.
But despite posting on social media to appear as doting parents, police say the couple caused such significant injuries to the little boy that he was unable to stand, eat or drink.
Police said the child had multiple bruises on his body, could not breathe on his own and had rotational head trauma consistent with severe child abuse. One doctor described the abuse as 'torture'.
Law enforcement interviewed his siblings who said Landon was spanked by their mother because 'he does not learn his lesson', adding Lauren would hit him with her open hand, a wooden spoon or use a spray bottle.
The criminal complaint against the pair, who have five other children, stated Lauren gets 'more angry' with Landon when she spanked him and would send the children upstairs.
His siblings said they would hear him cry, and former colleagues of Lauren said she 'hated him' and he was 'hard to love'.
When interviewed by police Lauren reportedly changed her story multiple times, while Jacob told officers that he was sick.
Both parents are accused of sending several text messages from April of 2022 until his death, which allegedly show disdain for Landon, with Lauren accused of saying she was 'going to kill him'.
The Allegheny County Medical examiner determined the little boy's manner of death was a homicide.
Jacob has been charged with one count of criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of children, and criminal conspiracy, as well as two counts of aggravated assault of a child.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...unched-brazen-GoFundMe-killing-youngster.html
A couple charged with beating their five year-old adopted son to death and leaving his brain 'obliterated' posted a fundraiser online to pay for their attorneys.
Lauren, 34, and Jacob Maloberti, 33, a corrections officer at Fayette State Correctional Center in Pennsylvania, are accused of violently abusing Landon, 5, causing blunt force trauma to his head and neck.
Police probed the couple after they brought the unresponsive schoolboy into AHN Hempfield Neighborhood Hospital on January 30, claiming he had been 'wobbly from COVID a month prior.'
Hospital staff claimed Lauren showed no urgency when they arrived, with the couple waiting an entire day after allegedly inflicting the injuries to get him medical attention in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Just two days after they are accused of beating little Landon so badly he suffered three bleeds on the brain, Lauren set up a GoFundMe initially asking for help with legal fees and then funeral costs.
The fundraiser, which has since been removed, raised $5,350 with Lauren begging for sympathy before her adopted son died on February 7.
She wrote: 'Tragedy struck our family when our precious baby boy went unresponsive. I rushed him to the ER and they intubated him and he's been unresponsive ever since. the outcome is not looking good.
'As we were in the hospital CPS took away our parental rights pending the investigation.
'I'm devastated. We are devastated. We both need good attorneys. My kids are my world. Any little bit helps us as we navigate life right now with our new uncertainty.
'Help us fight I can't live without our kids. I'm already loosing my boy.'
It was later updated to say they had to prepare for the 'most unimaginable outcome' and her heart was 'breaking in a million pieces'.
But despite posting on social media to appear as doting parents, police say the couple caused such significant injuries to the little boy that he was unable to stand, eat or drink.
Police said the child had multiple bruises on his body, could not breathe on his own and had rotational head trauma consistent with severe child abuse. One doctor described the abuse as 'torture'.
Law enforcement interviewed his siblings who said Landon was spanked by their mother because 'he does not learn his lesson', adding Lauren would hit him with her open hand, a wooden spoon or use a spray bottle.
The criminal complaint against the pair, who have five other children, stated Lauren gets 'more angry' with Landon when she spanked him and would send the children upstairs.
His siblings said they would hear him cry, and former colleagues of Lauren said she 'hated him' and he was 'hard to love'.
When interviewed by police Lauren reportedly changed her story multiple times, while Jacob told officers that he was sick.
Both parents are accused of sending several text messages from April of 2022 until his death, which allegedly show disdain for Landon, with Lauren accused of saying she was 'going to kill him'.
The Allegheny County Medical examiner determined the little boy's manner of death was a homicide.
Jacob has been charged with one count of criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of children, and criminal conspiracy, as well as two counts of aggravated assault of a child.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...unched-brazen-GoFundMe-killing-youngster.html
