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Baby found in Toledo freezer was strangled, submerged in water
Posted: 06.19.2012 at 3:09 PM
Kevin Kistner

Kevin is the Senior Producer at WNWO.

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Kenisha Pruitt  / Lucas Co. Jail
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TOLEDO -- New details about the baby found in an East Toledo freezer in April.

The Lucas County Coroner Tuesday ruled the newborn's death is a homicide.

The coroner says the baby boy was strangled and then submerged in water before it died.

The final ruling also shows that 20-year-old Kenisha Pruitt and 18-year-old Antonio Cervantes were the baby's parents.

Pruitt is charged with aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.  Her Trial begins in august and she's locked up in the Lucas County Jail on a nearly $2 million bond.

Cervantes has been charged in Toledo court with murder but not indicted by a Lucas County grand jury.

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