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LAFAYETTE, INDIANA - A father who murdered his infant son by submerging him in a bucket of laundry detergent and sealing the lid pled guilty to his crime and learned his fate.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, officers responded to a hospital after a woman checked in with signs of domestic abuse on Aug. 10, 2024. The woman said that her husband, 29-year-old Eliasard Moneus, viciously attacked her with a tire iron or wrench, resulting in a fractured skull. She also said that he took their 3-month-old son to an unknown location.
Authorities searched the Moneus' home but were unable to locate the infant, per the affidavit. Even after finding and arresting Moneus, the man reportedly only confessed to attacking his wife but claimed that he did not know where his son was.
Police returned to the house the next day, prompting the damning discovery of an orange bucket in the kitchen.
"The orange bucket had the lid attached to the bucket and was located next to the trash can in the kitchen," the affidavit reportedly said. "A young male infant believed to be [the victim] was located deceased in a dark-colored liquid inside of the orange bucket once the lid was removed. A subsequent autopsy determined that the boy died of asphyxia from being immersed in the detergent."
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