Depraved dad admits beating son, 7, to death and feeding him to PIGS at filthy home littered with dead mice, syringes and porn
Adrian Jones and seven other kids were forced to live in a filthy house of horrors with bullet holes in the walls and floors littered with dead mice, rat poison, syringes and hardcore porn videos
A DEPRAVED dad has admitted murdering his seven-year-old son after the child was battered to death and his emaciated body fed to pigs.
Little Adrian Jones and seven other kids were forced to live in a filthy house of horrors with bullet holes in the walls and floors littered with dead mice, rat poison, syringes and hardcore porn videos.
Adrian's remains were found near a barn where Jones and his wife Heather kept pigs and chickens at their rented home in Piper, Kansas, US.
The gruesome discovery was made in November 2015 by cops who were called to reports Jones had shot his wife and learned Adrian had not been seen for months.
Jones, 46, pleaded guilty to first degree murder ahead of his trial next month and faces a lengthy jail term.
Heather, Adrian's 31-year-old stepmum, was jailed for a minimum of 25 years after she admitted murder and child cruelty last year.
Judy Conway, Adrian’s maternal grandmother, she felt “relieved” Jones had finally confessed.
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She told the Kansas City Star: “It makes me pretty happy.
“I’m relieved that he and Heather will hopefully be behind bars for the rest of their life.
"It won’t bring Adrian back, of course, but it makes me feel really good that neither one can hurt another child again.”
When the couple were charged, prosecutors said it was the most heinous abuse case they had ever seen.
Deputy district attorney Sheryl Lidtke said Adrian had been physically and emotionally tortured, confined and “essentially starved to death.”
She said: “He was horribly abused, neglected and ultimately killed. I’m sure his suffering was unbearable.”
Jennifer Hoevers, the landlord who rented the property to the twisted couple, said she was “shocked and disgusted” after entering the $500,000 farmhouse weeks after the corpse was found.
She said the ruined farmhouse was with full of dirty clothes, fast food wrappers and a “stomach-churning smell”.
She described black mould growing all over the house, bullet holes in the wall, entire bathrooms ripped apart and a trashed swimming pool.
Mrs Hoevers said: “We had a lot of hopes and dreams for it. We wanted someone else to enjoy it. We saw they had a lot of kids.
“Having little kids myself, I don’t know how anybody could allow their kids to live like this.”
Heather Jones’ dad Jeff Coon told Kansas City News his daughter called him on Thanksgiving 2015 and said they had killed the little boy and “fed him to the pigs”, warning it would be “all over the news”.
Coon hadn’t seen his estranged daughter or the boy for two years, and said she was “just calm” when explaining what they had done.
He added: “I just don’t understand what that little boy had done to get what he got. There’s no reason for it.”
Seven other children aged between one and ten were taken into protective custody.
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