{"id":139305,"date":"2025-04-18T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/michigan-couple-arrested-for-3-year-olds-death\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T21:44:09","slug":"michigan-couple-arrested-for-3-year-olds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/michigan-couple-arrested-for-3-year-olds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Couple Arrested For 3-Year-Old&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Michigan mom and her ex-boyfriend at the moment are dealing with severe fees after allegedly murdering her 3-year-old son in 2018. Prosecutors declare they needed to \u201cmake room\u201d for a kid of their very own.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/theshaderoom.com\/akinyela-sawa-taylor-belize-plane-tropic-air-hijack-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> U.S. Citizen Murdered After Allegedly Attempting To Hijack Small Plane At Knifepoint In Belize<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Investigation Into Matthew\u2019s Death<\/h3>\n<p>The boy, 3-year-old <strong>Matthew Maison<\/strong>, was killed on Feb. 18, 2018, the St. Clair County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Michigan mentioned in an announcement saying the arrests of his mom and her ex-boyfriend. Prosecutors now allege <strong>Amanda Maison<\/strong>, 33, and her then-boyfriend <strong>Maurice Houle<\/strong>, 28, tried to cowl up years of abuse with a made-up story to elucidate the little boy\u2019s earlier accidents. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/04\/14\/matthew-maison-case-mother-man-charged-with-murder-in-3-year-olds-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WDIV<\/a>, investigators even imagine Houle\u2019s mom was concerned in what\u2019s being known as a \u201cscheme of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"565\" data-end=\"743\">St. Clair County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Joshua Sparling mentioned the years-long investigation revealed that Matthew \u201csuffered years of abuse at the hands of both defendants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"1130\">Prosecutors declare Matthew was repeatedly pressured to kneel in time-out, and was slapped within the face amongst different merciless punishments. In one chilling incident, Houle allegedly put a pillow over Matthew\u2019s face \u201cpretending like he was playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1366\">Ultimately, medical Examiner Daniel Spitz reportedly concluded that Matthew died from a mixture of blunt drive trauma and asphyxiation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1366\">\u201cThe extent, severity, and distribution of the traumatic injuries is indicative of inflicted trauma,\u201d he wrote in his report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Michigan Parents Arrested After Years Of Abuse<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, Maison and Houle had been arrested on April 11 and charged with first-degree homicide in reference to the loss of life of little Matthew Maison. Authorities say Matthew was discovered useless in his mattress by babysitters in Port Huron Township, Michigan, again in February 2018. Since then, his maternal grandparents had been preventing for justice, even making a Facebook group known as \u201cJustice for Matthew\u201d to lift consciousness and push for solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, prosecutors claimed the motive behind the abuse and homicide was to \u201cmake room\u201d for a brand new little one the couple needed to have collectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, Houle is dealing with fees for assaulting an officer throughout his arrest, and each suspects have pleaded not responsible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">More Shocking Details On The Case<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, prosecutors allege the couple abused Matthew for years, even locking him up with out meals or water. According to court docket data, Amanda reportedly admitted to slamming her son\u2019s head into the wall. She reportedly did so, so onerous that it broken the drywall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lastly, Amanda and Maurice are presently being held with out bond. <\/span>Their subsequent listening to is reportedly set for April 22.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/theshaderoom.com\/update-ex-baltimore-cop-james-weems-jr-sentenced-ex-wife-daycare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ex-Baltimore Cop James Weems Jr. Sentenced For Sexual Abuse At Ex-Wife\u2019s Daycare<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container\" style=\"justify-content: center;;\">\n<div class=\"wpra-reactions-container\" data-ver=\"1.3.10\" data-post_id=\"224665\" data-show_count=\"true\" data-enable_share=\"onclick\" data-behavior=\"regular\" data-animation=\"true\" data-share_url=\"https:\/\/theshaderoom.com\/michigan-couple-3-year-old-matthew-maison-make-room-new-baby\/\" data-secure=\"c789c71b4b\">\n<p>What Do You Think Roomies?<\/p>\n<p>                                             <!-- end of share buttons -->\t\t\t            <\/div>\n<p> <!-- end of reactions container -->        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of reactions wrap --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A Michigan mom and her ex-boyfriend at the moment are dealing with severe fees after allegedly murdering her 3-year-old son in 2018. Prosecutors declare they needed to \u201cmake room\u201d for a kid of their very own. RELATED: U.S. Citizen Murdered After Allegedly Attempting To Hijack Small Plane At Knifepoint In Belize Investigation Into Matthew\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9323,1386,8052,120,4829],"class_list":{"0":"post-139305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-3yearolds","9":"tag-arrested","10":"tag-couple","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-michigan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}