HAMILTON COUNTY Controversy arises over boy's remains

The biological mother of the boy is arranging burial, her lawyer said.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- What remains of a 3-year-old boy who died in August after his foster parents bound him in a blanket and packing tape and left him in a closet has yet to be claimed and buried, a prosecutor said.
Marcus Fiesel's biological mother, Donna Trevino, turned down an offer for a private burial made by Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters two weeks ago and told him she would make arrangements herself.
In a letter sent to Trevino on Friday, Deters writes, "I can certainly understand your decision to not accept our offer. What I cannot understand is your failure to claim Marcus' remains and put him to rest.
"Please, have the decency to make arrangements to have him put to rest. He deserves no less."
Deters' letter is political, said Kevin Hughes, a lawyer who represented Trevino in a lawsuit over her son's death.
"This woman has wanted to bury [Marcus] from day one," Hughes said. "I just don't get the political motivation."
Marcus, who was developmentally disabled, died after foster parents Liz Carroll and David Carroll Jr. left him in the closet in their Cincinnati-area home for two days while they attended a family reunion in Kentucky.
At coroner's office
Deters said the remains of Marcus, salvaged from a chimney where investigators say his body was burned after his death, are so few that they could fit inside a Dixie cup. They are being kept at the county coroner's office in a special cooler to prevent decay, Coroner O'dell Owens said.
Hughes said Trevino did not know where the remains were being held until Deters made the burial offer two weeks ago.
Trevino said in February that she planned have her son's remains buried at Woodside Cemetery in Middletown, her hometown in Butler County north of Cincinnati.
Lori Hicks of Baker-Stevens Funeral Home in Middletown, which has been working with Trevino on burial plans, said Trevino wants to give the boy an appropriate burial. The remains could be released as soon as this week, she said.
Trevino "has always been under the impression that they would not release him until the appeal process is over, not just the trial," Hicks said.
Butler County had agreed to pay for funeral services because Marcus died while a ward of that county in foster care, and Hughes said he would work with Butler County to make arrangements.
Burial there would be more convenient because Trevino does not drive and it would be easier to visit the grave, Hughes said.
"She turned down the gracious gift because Butler County has already made the offer to bury him in Middletown where she lives," Hughes said.