Child’s Body Found In Freezer After Sister Tips Off Teacher With Note About Mother's Boyfriend

The body of a little boy was allegedly found in a freezer in a Las Vegas home after his sister handed her school teacher a worrying note about her mother's boyfriend, which led to an investigation.

In the note, the children's mother had reportedly written she was being held against her will by her boyfriend, 35-year-old Brandon Toseland, and that she had no idea where her younger child was.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Ray Spencer said in a Tuesday night press conference the woman also wrote she feared her child was dead as she hadn't seen him since Dec. 11.

"She believed that the child could possibly be deceased," Spencer said.

Following the discovery of the body, the officers from LVMPD arrested Toseland on two kidnapping charges and an additional charge of murder, USA Today reported. Toseland wasn't the father of the children.

After receiving the note from the girl's mother, the elementary school teacher had alerted the cops shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday, following which the officers canvassed the area near the house as part of an investigation. By 10 a.m., the children's mother and her boyfriend were seen leaving the house in a car. The police then pulled over the car and detained Toseland.

The woman told the deputies she suffered abuse at the hands of her boyfriend and was restricted from accessing her garage. "She said she was not allowed to leave the house alone or go into the garage," Spencer told USA Today.

The police found the preschool-aged child's body in his mother's garage after serving a search warrant at the Saddle Brook Park Drive home, which the woman shared with Toseland, 8 News Now reported.

Toseland has a history of arrests dating back to at least 2005 on charges including domestic battery and disorderly conduct, USA Today reported, citing court records. Spencer didn't release details about the circumstances around the boy's death. The names of the boy and his mother weren't released also. As of Tuesday evening, detectives did not consider the children's mother to be involved in the death.

"But it’s still early on," Spencer told USA Today. "and there are a lot of questions that we still have to answer about what occurred over the last three months."

The woman's daughter was placed in the care of relatives Tuesday.