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Dec. 20, 2007
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Mom, friend charged in 4-year-old's death

Police suspicious about accident in desert area

By ANTONIO PLANAS
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Trevor Carter



Amber Scott

A car crash in the desert Tuesday morning was staged to try to cover up the slaying of a 4-year-old boy, North Las Vegas police said Wednesday.

The boy's 24-year-old mother, Amber Scott, and her live-in boyfriend, 21-year-old Trevor Carter, were arrested by North Las Vegas police Tuesday evening.

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    • Carter was booked into the North Las Vegas Detention Center on first-degree murder and child abuse charges. Scott is jailed on three counts of child abuse and neglect. Both are Las Vegas residents, police said.

    About 9 a.m., Carter called police to a dirt road north of Losee Road and about a mile from Interstate 215.

    Carter told officers he had hit a dirt berm after he lost control of the sedan he had been driving there.

    Scott was not in the car, but the 4-year-old was -- and he was dead. His 3-year-old sister was also in the vehicle. She was taken to University Medical Center and was in good condition Tuesday.

    North Las Vegas police spokesman Sean Walker said the girl, along with another sibling who Walker said he believes is 5 or 6, were in the custody of Child Protective Services on Wednesday.

    Walker said that shortly after police arrived at the crash scene they began questioning whether the boy had been killed prior to the accident.

    "He's out there in a passenger vehicle in an off-road type of situation, which isn't normal," Walker said.

    "To the trained investigator looking at this, there were enough questions about the scene of the accident for them to begin asking questions if what he (Carter) was telling us was true."

    Officers eventually reached the conclusion that "this incident was staged by Carter in an attempt to cover up abuse" that the boy had suffered, Walker said.

    Contact reporter Antonio Planas at aplanas@reviewjournal.com or (702) 383-4638.



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    Mike Paahana wrote on July 10, 2008 09:16 PM: sum times i worry bout when my gf get my kids with her cos she no can drive 2 good an might get accident with them in da car


    raquel wrote on December 26, 2007 11:27 PM: same old story, it's not about the children molesters/abusers/murderers anymore, it's about the legal system allowing this heinous crime.


    raquel wrote on December 26, 2007 09:45 PM: again another boyfriend killing (strongly punching in the stomach) the mother's little child, who's to blame the horny mother, the wimp ass boyfriend (who couldnt duke it out w/ his same size), or the legal system (who still doesn't feel execution is the only consequence for these heartless punks)


    Randy wrote on December 20, 2007 09:10 PM: Just turn yourself in for the crime that you have committed! No need to lie to the police! GOD knows what you have done.


    mssngsmthng wrote on December 20, 2007 03:17 PM: It has become so common to hear these stories, not just here in LV but everwhere around the US. What is the solution to this kind of problem where young women have children and then the kids fall victims to abuse. How many kids are out there that are being abused but we don't know about it because they have not been killed yet?
    I am sure child abuse is present in all social economic househoolds, it has no barriers.


    What? wrote on December 20, 2007 02:32 PM: Well,another case with two at one time in there life were human you have to be a animal with no feeling for your off spring to allow even have a thought like this!!! What they should do is put the mother in a institution with animals not even give this monster the ability to have other people around her or him they need not to be in jail but in the wild with real animals!


    Leslie wrote on December 20, 2007 02:18 PM: She should have her tubes tied and they should both be locked away for good. No CHILD deserves the be abused. Why would you have kids if you were going to abuse them. This is a clear case of mommy wanted the boyfriend before she wanted the kids


    Greg wrote on December 20, 2007 01:32 PM: Here we go again, another single lowlife mother, shacking up with some dirtbag guy, and a kid dies. What, we read this same story about once a month just in Las Vegas. Hope these two scumbags go to jail for a long time, and maybe kill themselves. It would be no loss.


    Justice wrote on December 20, 2007 01:15 PM: Well, as the story goes....child abusers and molestors get what's coming to them in prison.
    Hope the 2 of you enjoy your stay.


    Herb wrote on December 20, 2007 01:09 PM: This is just a tragic example of what happens in a morally bankrupt culture. A huge percentage of women are having children out of wedlock. Then they hook up with and have relationships with bad boys, criminals, predators, and killers.

    Unless moral values make a comeback and women marry good decent men instead of hooking up with bad boy predators these types of stories will become more and more common.


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