Boy found in hotel freezer, mother charged

DOTHAN, Ala. — Police in Alabama have arrested the mother of a baby whose body was found inside a freezer in a hotel room.

News outlets report 36-yearold Amanda Gail Oakes is charged with manslaughter and corpse abuse in the death of six-month-old Curtis James Oakes.

Police previously charged her 28-year-old boyfriend, Carlton James Mathis of Gainesville, Ga., with murder in the child’s death.

He was arrested last week after being shot during a police standoff in Bronson, Fla. Oakes was with Mathis when he was captured. Investigators later found the child’s remains in a hotel room freezer. An autopsy is being conducted to determine how the boy died.