Haunting words of cops on realizing boy, 9, neglected by his father could not be saved

Arizona constabulary hauntingly declared that a nine-year-old boy was 'beyond help' aft uncovering his neglected assemblage successful his father's squalid home. 

The grim section unfolded past week successful Tucson, wherever Joseph Gregory Antonsen, 38, was charged pinch kid maltreatment and negligent homicide aft allegedly abandoning his boy pursuing a aesculapian emergency. 

When he was arrested connected July 14, Antonsen reportedly told constabulary that his son, who has not been named, became violently sick 2 days before, but he near erstwhile his boy passed retired alternatively of calling for help. 

In a recently released 911 telephone from KGUN9, constabulary said Antonsen told them he recovered nan boy 'unconscious, not breathing - they judge he is beyond help.' 

When constabulary arrived astatine nan ramshackle home, they reportedly recovered nan spot had nary moving h2o and nary functioning toilets. 

The child's assemblage was recovered sitting upright connected a couch, surrounded by 'empty beer cans, ample piles of soiled diapers, rotten food, bottles afloat of what appears to beryllium urine, tons of insect activity and spiders', the Pima County Sheriff's Department said. 

Officials added that venomous achromatic widow spiders were recovered successful nan home, though it is not known whether nan boy's unwellness was owed to being bitten. 

Investigators said Antonsen told them that erstwhile his boy fell ill, he was shaking and 'going limp' earlier he stopped breathing. 

After he couldn't find a pulse, Antonsen allegedly admitted that he knew he should person called for help, but alternatively he near his boy successful nan location for 2 days. 

Antonsen only called 911 erstwhile he returned. When detectives arrived, they observed that nan boy had been dormant 'for an extended play of time', reports KOLD. 

A neighbour told nan outlet that she had not seen nan nine-year-old boy successful astir a period earlier his death, and observed that he did not spell extracurricular pinch his begetter arsenic overmuch successful caller months. 

'His boy was really cute,' she said. 'He was a really friends kid... he was very police. He was a batch friendlier than his dad.' 

The neighbour added that her girl utilized to play pinch nan boy, and said she had to now break nan news to her girl astir nan tragedy. 

'She would ever beryllium truthful excited to tally crossed and spell bent retired pinch them,' she said. 'It would return maine hours to beryllium like, 'You guys request to travel wrong now.'' 

Another neighbour said they had antecedently believed nan location was abandoned because they ne'er saw anyone coming aliases going from nan property. 

After Antonsen's arrest, constabulary said he was deemed a formation consequence because he is solely limited connected his parents who unrecorded successful Panama. 

He was placed successful custody connected a $500,000 bond, and had not paid bail astatine nan clip of writing.