Jakee Contreras told investigators she hadn’t seen her son, Duke Flores, in approximately two weeks but never called authorities to report his disappearance, deputies say.
Tilman Carolise, Harrington Matherne and Farrel Tregre are accused of raping the now-12-year-old girl over a period of years. Two sisters, Tina and Terri Tegre allegedly helped them.
Prosecutors say Mirza Afzal Hussain bought the young girl tight clothes, sent sexually explicit text messages, and even falsified a passport to alter her age so he could marry her.
Whitley Evenson was 17 when she put her hand over her 6-week-old baby's mouth in 2015. A judge gave her a suspended seven-year prison sentence and five years probation.
Police in Phoenix say they observed Rebecca Gonzales beating her son, who later told them he'd been recruited as a lookout for a shoplifting excursion to Walmart.