Couple Hung 3-Year-Old Boy Upside-Down Before Beating Him

A Pennsylvania
couple has been charged after hanging a boy
upside down, whipping and striking him repeatedly
with a frying pan and later beating him to death.
Jillian Tait, 31, and Gary Lee Fellenbaum, 23,
were charged Thursday with murder in the
death of Tait's son, Scott McMillan, and
aggravated assault in the beating of his
older brother.
Chester County District Attorney Thomas
Hogan called the case "an American horror
story."
"It was an unspeakable act of depravity," he
said.
The couple met working at Wal-Mart and last
month moved in together, along with
Fellenbaum's estranged wife and three
children — Tait's 6- and 3-year-old sons and
the Fellenbaums' 11-month-old daughter.
The six lived in a mobile home park outside
the city of Coatesville, about 35 miles
northwest of Philadelphia.
The prosecutor said what started as
spankings morphed into "concentrated,
repeated, escalating abuse." Then, "over
three days he was systematically tortured
and beaten to death," Hogan said.
The three adults told authorities "that Scott
McMillan had been punched and beaten with
blunt and sharp objects, whipped, taped to a
chair with electrical tape and beaten, hung
up by his feet and beaten, and suffered
other acts of violence," police said in
affidavits released Thursday
Posted By David Aniemeka