Man Who 'Raped Girlfriend's Four-Year-Old Son To Death' Now Faces Capital Punishment

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A man is accused of raping his girlfriend's four-year-old son to death and 20-year-old Keith Jordan Lambing now faces the death penalty.

His mother, Kristen Herold, has been charged with endangering a child's life and assisting an offender after she helped him hide from police.

Lambing, of Butler, Pennsylvania, was alone with the boy while his girlfriend and the child's mother, Mackenzie Peters, was at work.

Four-year-old Bentley Miller died of severe blood loss due to sodomy, a severe burn to his left hand, and bruises to the head and extremities, reports the Pittsburgh Post.

On Tuesday morning, police officers responded to a report of an unconscious child in a car. They found Bentley in the vehicle with Lambing's mother.

She told police that she'd picked Bentley up from a motel where her son was staying with his girlfriend and their biological four-month-old son. Bentley was not related to Lambing.

She continued, explaining that she'd been taking Bentley to his biological father's house (despite the fact he was bleeding) when he became unconscious. It was at this point that she called the police.

Police have said that Lambing was alone with Bentley when the attack took place.

They rushed the boy to hospital, but he died an hour later. Police began hunting Lambing, and eventually found him the next day where he was hiding in the attic of an abandoned building. Police claim his mother hid him there.

Lambing was not unknown to the police, as he was already facing charges of burglary, criminal trespass, and conspiracy as well as terroristic threats and harassment. In fact, he'd failed to show up for a court appointment the day before Bentley's murder.

District Attorney Richard Goldinger told WTAE that he may still charge Bentley's mother, Mackenzie Peters.

He then added that he will be seeking the death penalty for Lambing. He said: "I have never seen anything like it in 22 years as an attorney.

"It's unimaginable someone could do something like this to any human being, let alone a four-year-old."

He appeared in court on Monday where he cried and pleaded his innocence.

The child belonging to Peters and Lambing has been placed in protective custody.

Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Topics: Death Penalty

Mel Ramsay

Mel Ramsay has been a Senior Journalist for Tyla and LADbible since 2015. She started her career writing obituaries and funeral guides online. Since then, her work has been published in a wide variety of national and local news sites. She is part of the BBC's Generation project and has spoken about young people, politics and mental health on television, radio and online. Contact her - [email protected]

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