Updated: 8:32 AM CST December 22, 2020
COLE CAMP, Mo. A west-central Missouri couple face multiple charges accusing them of torturing and killing a 4-year-old girl and torturing the child s mother and 2-year-old brother.
Deputies were called just before 1 a.m. Sunday to a rural home near the town of Cole Camp, the Benton County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. A 4-year-old girl had been beaten, submerged in a pond and left to freeze on the bank before being taken back to her home, where she died, authorities said.
The child s mother, Mary Mast, 28, and her 2-year-old son also were badly beaten. They are hospitalized in Sedalia. The names of the two children were not released.
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A Missouri couple has been accused of fatally torturing their own neighbors, a mother and her two kids, and the killing of a little girl.
Early Sunday, James Mast, 28, of Cole Camp, Missouri called 911 to report that his 4-year-old daughter was dead, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. He said the child “had been beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank before being taken back into the residence.”
When investigators arrived on the scene, they found the girl dead in her bedroom, according to local outlet KY3.