Heinous, unbelievable and downright
troubling: those are just some of the words police are using to describe
child abuse allegations against a Henderson man.
The 33-year-old is accused of thriving off of
mental and physical punishment, putting his girlfriend’s two young
children through a “living hell”.
According to police documents, Edward Colluci
met his girlfriend on Myspace less than one year ago. He reportedly
told the Utah woman he could “help her with her two children and help
them have a better future.”
Less than a month after their move to
Southern Nevada, and police say that future took an abusive and
even-life threatening direction.
Investigators uncovered a range of long-term
“torture” after the woman’s younger son went unconscious. Paramedics
said that the now 5-year-old boy was so malnourished, he could have
died. Continue