‘Absolutely horrific.’ Canton detective describes home where baby starved to death

CANTON ‒ An 11-month-old Canton baby who starved to death lived in “absolutely appalling conditions” with a brother who was nearly 2 years old, a police detective said Wednesday in Canton Municipal Court.

Detective Kevin Sedares also told Judge Kristen D. Guardado that what happened to the late Royale Rush was the “most egregious treatment of a child I had ever seen.”

The detective said that after arriving on June 25 at Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital as part of his investigation of the death, he learned that the infant was extremely emaciated. He weighed 10.3 pounds…

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