{"id":87968,"date":"2026-01-15T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:16:10","slug":"parents-boyfriend-charged-for-2024-death-of-erie-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87968\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents, boyfriend charged for 2024 death of Erie child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three adults are facing charges Thursday night, almost two years after an eight-year-old boy died in Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In January 2024, erie police responded to an apartment on West 16th Street, where they found the boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court documents said that the boy\u2019s cause of death was pneumonia of both lungs, and a forensic pathologist determined that the boy\u2019s death could have been prevented if he had received medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The boy\u2019s mother, Teana Fuller, his father, Patrick Hayes and his mother\u2019s boyfriend, Joseph Ambrose, were charged on Thursday with involuntary manslaughter among other offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three adults are facing charges Thursday night, almost two years after an eight-year-old boy died in Erie. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43795,136,138,137,43794,43797,43793,43792,43796],"class_list":{"0":"post-87968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-court-documents","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-forensic-pathologist","13":"tag-involuntary-manslaughter","14":"tag-joseph-ambrose","15":"tag-patrick-hayes","16":"tag-teana-fuller"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}