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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.
With two local child abuse cases getting national attention, Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf says residents have wanted to be proactive with the problem. Every child deserves to be safe, she said Thursday. Every little boy and girl deserves to be safe when he or she goes to bed at night and wakes up in the morning.
In February, prosecutors filed 20 felony charges against Stephanie Angelette Duncan, 42, and her husband, Robert John Duncan, 44, of the 2700 block of Cedar Run Road.
The Duncans calculated and prolonged abuse included physical punishment, depriving the children of food, water, heat and bathroom privileges, and trying to cover up their crimes, according to prosecutors.