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Las Vegas Man Charged with Murder of 4-Year-Old Boy Found Dead in a Freezer Now Faces Additional Child Abuse Charges
By Colin Kalmbacher
Law & Crime
A Las Vegan man already behind bars for allegedly murdering his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and then storing the boy’s body in a freezer is now facing additional child abuse charges.
Brandon Toseland, 36, was arrested in February of this year after his girlfriend’s young daughter delivered a note to her elementary school teacher saying that she was being “held against her will.” Those notes were hidden in the 7-year-old girl’s shoe by her mother.
The defendant was initially charged with two counts of kidnapping in the first degree. Toseland was later assessed a charge of open murder, after the body of Mason Dominguez was allegedly discovered in a trash bag in a freezer in his garage.
In April, Toseland was indicted on 10 separate charges including murder, child abuse, kidnapping, and domestic violence.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Michelle Fleck said the victim died after a “constellation of internal injuries” to his small intestine caused by blunt force trauma to his abdomen.
Additionally, the prosecutor said the boy suffered a cut to one eye, a bite mark on one arm, abrasions, “throughout his head,” as well as bruising on his torso, abdomen, and extremities.
In those initial charges, the defendant reportedly stands accused of “striking and/or kicking” the boy, or causing the boy to hit an “unknown object,” or of “shaking and/or squeezing” him.
On Friday, the grand jury added two additional charges related to the girl, according to court records obtained by Las Vegas, Nevada-based CBS affiliate KLAS. Those additional charges alleged that Toseland choked the girl with his arm and, in a separate incident last year, choked her with a vacuum cord – before her brother was killed.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are reportedly considering the death penalty if Toseland is convicted.
Jerry Lambe contributed to this report
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/las-ve...abuse-charges/
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