TEEN CHARGED IN DEATHS OF TWO SIBLINGS

Prosecutors have charged a 14-yearold Indiana boy in the suffocation deaths of his two young siblings last year, alleging in court documents that he told investigators he did it so they wouldn’t “have to live in the hell he did.”

Ripley County Prosecutor Richard Hertel said Wednesday the teen was arrested last week on juvenile charges of murder in the May 2017 killing of his 23-month-old half-sister, Desiree McCartney, and the killing two months later of his 11-month-old stepbrother, Nathaniel Ritz, at their home in Osgood.