News: This 8 y/o lay dead for 4 days in his bedroom while his mother slept below.

By SHAUNA ANDERSON

Warning: this post deals with distressing details of a child’s death and may be upsetting for some readers.

This is the room that eight-year-old Jarrod Tutko lived in and died in.

And this is the room of his little sister, Adriana.

Eight-year-old Jarrod died last week – he was living with his five siblings and his parents when he died in his room.

His mother says she did not know he was dead for four days until the smell of his decomposing body filled their air in their Pennsylvania home in the US.

The story, which broke in the US over the weekend, has heavily criticized Kimberly Tutko, Jarrod’s mother for not knowing her disabled son had died.

“I’m being picked on for being a bad mom: ‘Oh you didn’t know that something was wrong with him?’ I didn’t, because every single day, it was a normal routine,” Kimberly told CBS News.

The couple’s son was mentally handicapped and autistic and the “normal routine” was for his dad, Jarrod Tutko, 38, to take care of him.

The couple also have five other children ages 13, 12, 10, 6 and 3, — several of whom suffer from serious medical conditions, including one who is deaf.

Kimberly told Penn Live that one of the children, a daughter, requires 24-hour care as she has autism and is in a vegetative state. The girl has a feeding tube, is blind, has a collapsed lung and is confined to a hospital bed on the second floor of the home. “My daughter relies on me,” Kimberly said. “I take care of her and my husband takes care of Jarrod Jr.”

Tragically Jarrod died over four days before he was removed from his room.

Kimberly Tutko said the eight–year old was often difficult to control. She said he would rip up the floors and carpets of his bedroom, smear his feces on the floor and walls, and refused to wear a nappy.

According to a police statement the boy’s father, also named Jarrod, waited several days to tell Kimberly that their son had died, informing his wife about the death of Jarrod Tutko Jr., “when the odor of decomposition became too strong.”

It was Friday when Jarrod Tutko finally carried the dead body of eight-year-old Jarrod Jr., wrapped in a sheet and laid him on the bathroom floor.

Kimberly Tutko told Penn Live she thought her son had just died and it was not until she pulled back the sheet she realised he had died several days earlier.

Kimberly Tutko said her husband told her the child died on Tuesday. “I said to him ‘Why didn’t you say anything?'” she said. “He said he was too afraid to say anything because of other kids in the house.”

Kimberly Tutko said she then called the police.

The father was charged with endangering the welfare of children, concealing the death of a child and abuse of a corpse.

Kimberly Tutko has not been charged with a crime.