A Florida woman was arrested this week in connection to the horrific death of her 7-year-old stepson who drowned in a sewage-filled pit last October.
Cheyenne Star Fite, 25, is accused of leaving Riley Scot Hogeback to drown in the massive 7-foot-deep hole filled with urine and fecal matter at their rural property in Kissimmee.
A sibling of the victim told detectives that Fite had stripped the boy naked and forced him outside the home for hurting a chicken.
“Cheyenne stated as the kids were playing, she turned her back for approximately 5 minutes to fold clothes inside the trailer,” the arrest affidavit states.
“All of a sudden, Cheyenne hears her 5-year-old daughter yell, [redacted] is under the water.’ Yet, Cheyenne [Fite] did not believe [her daughter] initially and continued her task.”
The sibling told police Fite was sleeping and folding clothes as Riley drowned in the hole next to a pig pen.
The medical examiner said the boy’s lungs were “lined by brown and green mud.”
Fite was charged with aggravated manslaughter by child abuse.
