The first court date for Michael Turner, who has admitted to wrapping 2-year-old Colton Brandt Turner in a blanket and burying him in a wooded area in southeast Austin, has been reset for Oct. 30. Colton’s mother, 20-year-old Meagan Work, and Michael Turner, 29, have both been charged with Tampering with Evidence — usually a 3rd degree felony. The charges can be upgraded to a 2nd degree felony, punishable by 2-20 years in prison, when the evidence is a human body. The Austin Police Department is continuing its investigation into the case, and questions have been raised about the role the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services played, and whether Child Protective Service staff should have done more to follow up on allegations made to CPS that Colton was being abused. A separate internal investigation being overseen by DFPS Commissioner John Specia Jr. could result in disciplinary actions against CPS employees involved in the case. Law enforcement sources have said that four separate complaints were made to CPS regarding Colton’s safety. Both Work and her boyfriend Michael Brandt Turner, who is Colton’s namesake but not his biological father, have told police that Colton sustained a head injury while staying in a motel. Official documents in the case show that Turner admitted to burying the toddler, but said he was not responsible for the death. According to an affidavit, when investigators asked Turner what he thought had happened to the boy, Turner said that Meagan had to have “done something” to him. After investigators from the Cedar Park Police Department, the Austin Police Department, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies found the remains of a little boy in the location where Turner said he had buried Colton, he and Work were both charged with Tampering with Evidence in the case. Work, who was already in the Williamson County Jail on charges of endangering a child, was transferred to the Travis County Jail along with Michael Turner, where both are being held on $250,000 bond and awaiting the first court date in the case on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 23:00:01 +0000
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