Carnel Chamberlain’s body was found last Thursday, concealed beneath the porch of his mother’s Michigan home. On Friday, charges were brought against a suspect: but not for murder.
20-year-old Anthony Bennett, the boyfriend of Carnel’s 21-year-old mother Jaimee Chamberlain, has been charged with assaulting the youngster, just weeks before his death.
Jaimee told the FBI she saw her son with a bruised and swollen face, as well as a cut lip, in late-May or early-June. She has accused Bennett of striking Carnel when she was away from their home, and claimed Bennett picked the child up by the neck before dropping him.
Family members have also revealed Bennett was the last person to see Carnel before his disappearance, which led to a week-long manhunt in woods and ponds around the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe reservation.
Bennett now faces a charge of assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to a child under 16, though federal prosecutors would not reveal whether the charge was a way to hold Bennett while more serious charges are being considered. Prosecutors have requested Bennett is not released on bond.
One person who seems convinced of Bennett’s guilt is Kevin Chamberlain, Jaimee’s cousin, who has become the family spokesman at this sad time. He told the Associated Press that Bennett came off as “a kind of wannabe thug,” adding:
“We have no choice but to believe [Anthony Bennett] had something to do with it. All eyes and arrows point right to him.”
Why Jaimee Chamberlain allowed her son to be in her boyfriend’s company while she believed abuse was ongoing is not yet known.
If mom already suspcted the boy friend was hurting her son, why did she leave him with him AGAIN?
lock me up with him for ten minutes and I'll get pay back for this child that couldn't take up for himself.
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I don't understand why young women have children and then hook up with these no good men that are jobless, ugly and tattooed all over and are just plain useless……the air we allow them to breathe is contaimating the other maybe positive young men(not many left it seems)….but this is happening way to much…one is to many….lock him up with the max men in prision he will be a girl and a dead one in time……they hate child abuser from what every one says….
this little boy was so cute……
You are so right. She should have immediatly gotten her child out of the situation and turned her boyfriend in. What kind of mother doesn't protect her child? IT SICKENS ME..
I'm very sorry for this family and their loss the boy looks so innocent. But from what I just read (and jesus strike me down if you want) its sort of the mothers fault. How you notice in late May early June that you noticed bruises and marks on your child after your boyfriend watched him? You didn't report it then to police then you let this fool watch your child again and now this happens.People that watch your kids need a background check even if they're family.