A man has been held after the bodies of his five children were found hundreds of miles away from his home in South Carolina, United States America (USA), authorities said yesterday (September 9).
32-year-old Timothy Ray Jones Jr. is suspected of killing the five youngsters – aged between one and eight – before dumping their bodies – wrapped in individual garbage bags – on a dirt road in rural Alabama.
He has been charged with child neglect and police expect o lodge additional charges against in connection with the children’s deaths, South Carolina and Mississippi authorities say.