Father charged in death of toddler found dead near Edmonton church

EDMONTON – A 26-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman have been charged in the death of a toddler whose body was found dumped near an Edmonton church.

Joseph Crier, the boy’s father, and Tasha Mack are each charged with second-degree murder, criminal negligence causing death, assault, and failure to provide the necessaries of life when they appeared in court via videolink this morning. Their case was put over to May 8.

They were arrested over the weekend in the death of a 17-month-old boy identified as Anthony Joseph Raine, whose mother is from the Louis Bull Tribe in central Alberta.

His body was found outside a church on Friday but Edmonton police believe it had been left there on Tuesday morning.