The mother of a boy found dead in an uptown Harrisburg home said her husband waited about four days to reveal to her that their son had died.
Kimberly Tutko said she noticed a strange odor coming from the third floor of her Green Street home Friday night.
Her husband, Jarrod Nicholas Tutko, went upstairs and came back with body of their eight-year-old son, Jarrod Jr., wrapped in a sheet and laid him on the bathroom floor, she said.
Believing the boy had just died, Kimberly Tutko said she pulled the sheet back and quickly realized he had been dead for several days.
Kimberly Tutko said her husband told her the child died on Tuesday.
“I said to him ‘Why didn’t you say anything?’” Kimberly Tutko said. “He said he was too afraid to say anything because of other kids in the house.”
Kimberly Tutko said she then called 911.
Jarrod Nicholas Tutko Sr., 38, was charged with endangering the welfare of children, concealing the death of a child and abuse of a corpse early Saturday morning, according to court records.
Jarrod Tutko’s bail was set at $500,000 at his preliminary arraignment Saturday morning and he is being held in Dauphin County Prison, according to court records. Kimberly Tutko has not been charged with a crime.
A news release from Harrisburg Police states Jarrod Tutko informed his wife about the boy’s death “when the odor of decomposition became too strong.”
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