Fayetteville parents now face murder, accessory charges in child's death :: WRAL.com
Posted December 31, 2020 2:35 p.m. EST Police were called to a home in the 1500 block of Sisal Drive, off Murchison Road, on Oct. 2, 2019, and found Ethan Bates dead. Police haven't said how the boy died. Saint Michael Edwards, 25, was previously charged with felony intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury and has been in the Cumberland County jail under $1 million bond for the past 15 months. He will remain there under no bond on the first-degree murder charge. The child's mother, Evie Loretta Bates, 25, is charged with accessory after the fact of firs...
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