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Suffocated N.J. boys lived up to 33 hours
Three Camden, N.J., boys who suffocated in a car trunk police never checked lived for 17 to 33 hours, says a lawyer representing one of the families. The new autopsy information puts the blame "squarely on the shoulders of the police" since the children could have been found alive, attorney Peter Villari told the New York Times. Villari represents the family of Anibal Cruz Jr., an 11-year-old with a severe learning disability. He and two friends, Daniel Agosto, 6, and Jesstin Pagan, 5, were last seen alive playing in his yard June 22. Some 150 police officers searched for the children, whose bodies were discovered two days later by Cruz's father when he opened the trunk of the broken-down Toyota. A report is expected next week of an official investigation into why searchers never opened the trunk. Some residents criticized the parents for failing to look in the car trunk themselves. © Copyright 2005 by United Press International
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