According to the Daily Post story, Garber told police he had seen Calvo hitting Aiden with “something wrapped in a towel.” McMillan said that detectives later found a bar of soap zip-tied in the bottom of a garbage bag in the apartment, where they had lived for only a couple of days at the time.

The Internet history on Garber’s cellphone, however, brought his own demons to light, the Daily Post reported. In addition to Google searches including “my child won’t wake up” and “pupil size” beginning on the evening of Dec. 15, Garber also had been researching different methods of torture as far back as November, McMillan said. One search simply said, “I can’t stop hitting my kid.”

The Daily Post reported that doctors and the Gwinnett County medical examiner’s office said they believed Aiden was chronically abused, citing, among other evidence, old and new bruises on his body. Calvo reportedly began crying at the Dec. 31 hearing as McMillan listed the various injuries she discovered. According to court records, they included “several fingerprint bruises” on the boy’s back; a hand print on his buttocks; a bruised jaw; forehead bruising; a fractured skull; bleeding in his nose and stomach; bruises on his penis and scrotum; bite marks on his fingers; and diaper rash with skin breakdown, “possibly from scalding.” Blood was later found in several of Aiden’s used diapers.

McMillan said that a woman has come forward claiming that she called Child Protective Services in New York in 2009 to report an incident involving Calvo and her son Richard. Garber reportedly told police he had also called CPS recently while he was living in Las Vegas with his father. He said he “would hear thumps in the background” while on the phone with Calvo, McMillan said in the story.

Calvo was granted custody of her children last March, after a battle with her estranged husband, their biological father. Gwinnett County police have since interviewed him. “He said that [Calvo] never liked the kids or wanted the kids,” McMillan said of their father. “She just took them to spite him.”