2 charged with murder in connection to death of 4-year-old Mo. girl By KY3 | December 21, 2020 at 9:05 AM CST - Updated December 21 at 9:18 AM
WARSAW, Mo. (KY3) - The Benton County, Mo. prosecutor filed a murder charge Monday morning in the beating death of a four-year-old child.
Authorities arrested two in the investigation, Ethan Mast, 35, and Kourtney Aumen, 21, of a neighboring Cole Camp residence. They each face first-degree murder, felony assault and child abuse charges.
A four-year-old girl died Sunday morning near Cole Camp. Investigators responded to a home near Buckskin Lane around 1 a.m. Sunday. Sheriff Eric Knox says the girl was beaten from head-to-toe. Sheriff Knox says the child’s father told authorities his daughter “had been beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank before being taken back into the residence.”