Four-month-old found dead with maggot infestation was left in same diaper for 9 to 14 days
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A prosecutor in the trial of a father who has been charged with murder and child endangerment after the child's body was found infested with maggots in a baby swing last year in Iowa has told the jury that the man's infant son "died of a diaper rash". Coleman McAllister, the Assistant Iowa Attorney General, told the jurors on October 30 that four-month-old Sterling Koehn had been sitting in the same diaper for 9 to 14 days when his body was discovered in the baby swing on August 30, 2017, at the Alta Vista apartment where his family stayed.
The Courier reported that the baby's father, 29-year-old Zachary Paul Koehn, has been charged with murder and child endangerment. Cheyanne Harris, the infant's mother, has also been charged and is scheduled to appear in a separate trial set for a later date.