No charges expected in freezing death of child

No charges expected in freezing death of child

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said Monday they do not expect to file charges in the case of a 3-year-old boy who was found frozen to death in an unheated back porch Saturday at a South Side home.

Lt. Douglas Bobovnyik of the Detective Bureau and Detective Sgt. Ron Rodway, lead investigator on the case, said it appears the death of Quinton Alli was an accident.

“It appears to be nothing more than a tragedy,” Bobovnyik said.

The child was found about 9 a.m. Saturday by relatives wearing nothing but his underwear in the back porch area of the house, which is enclosed. Temperatures early Saturday morning reached a low of 14 degrees at 1 a.m.

Rodway said the home had a furnace and space heaters as well because the people living there did not like it cold and it was not uncommon for the child to go into the enclosed back porch on occasions to cool himself off.