I can t believe it s been a year already, she said. It feels like I read about it just yesterday, and it s still heartbreaking to hear what happened to that poor boy.
On May 26, 2020, Annville Township Police and members of the Lebanon County Detective Bureau found the body of 12-year-old Maxwell in his second-floor room. Both the bed and the victim s body were wholly covered in fecal matter, documents state. The door and its frame contained three metal hooks . to lock the child in his bedroom.
Police filed homicide charges against the victim s father, Scott Fremont Schollenberger Jr. and his live-in fiancée, Kimberly Marie Maurer, in September 2020.
Locked in a coffin, beaten with an iron skillet: The tragedy of an abusive childhood
Kim Strong, York Daily Record
Published
11:23 pm UTC Apr. 4, 2021
Kim Strong, York Daily Record
Published
11:23 pm UTC Apr. 4, 2021
Grace Wild remembers the large metal box her father built in the basement to threaten his children. If they talked to anyone about his abuse, they would be locked in that coffin.
She spent three days in it.
Her father, Eugene Wild, abused his wife so badly that he went to jail for it, and after she died, his 12 children had no one to protect them from his abuse and assaults.
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Adoptive parents accused of horrible abuse in North Annville Township: Here s what we know
Five children, ages 6 to 15, described horrific patterns of abuse at the hands of Robert and Stephanie Duncan.
Lebanon Daily News
This is what is known about the case, based on information in court documents, a news release from the Lebanon County District Attorney’s office, and other reporting:
Abuse reported
The Duncans’ 11-year-old son was rushed to Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in mid-January after he was found to be unresponsive and hypothermic.
Medical staff determined bruises to the child’s neck, shoulders, back, abdomen, hip and genitals were not consistent with accidental injury and reported in injuries to authorities.