Boy’s remains encased in concrete in trash bin

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina toddler’s remains have been found encased in concrete in a trash bin and a man and his girlfriend have been charged in the boy’s death.

Investigators were awaiting a DNA test before positively identifying the boy as 2-year-old Rodricus Williams, but Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said Thursday the body matched the description given to police when Rodricus was reported missing in Charleston on Tuesday night.

DeWitt says 29-year-old Roger Williams and Grace Nichole Trotman have been charged with homicide by child abuse.

DeWitt says after interviewing Williams and Trotman, investigators discovered the trash bin near the rural town of Bowman, about 55 miles northwest of Charleston.