Trigger Warning: This article contains references to alleged child abuse and murder that some readers may find distressing. The trio was initially arrested by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office on child abuse charges following the child’s death late last year. 🇺🇸 As disturbing as it sounds, Mecklenburg prosecutors are going for the death penalty in the torture death of a 6-year-old. Moody’s death remains a rarest of rare instances of child abuse and neglect in the state of North Carolina. Signed into law this summer, the legislation allocates $650,000 to establish a specialized state escalation team to protect children from severe abuse.