Aarone's dad's plea: not guilty

Child's body has never been found

Rocky Mountain News

Published June 26, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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Aaron Thompson, 40, faces 60 counts of child abuse.

Aaron Thompson pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Arapahoe County District Court to charges that he abused and killed his daughter.

Thompson was indicted last year on 60 counts of child abuse, including child abuse resulting in death.

Thompson reported his daughter, Aarone, missing in November 2005, when she would have been 6.

But within days, police said she had been killed up to 18 months earlier.

The grand jury indictment alleges that Aarone died as a result of repeated child abuse. Her body has never been found.

Eight children, including Aarone, lived in the Aurora home with Thompson and his live-in girlfriend, Shely Lowe, who has since died.

Beatings were a daily occurrence in the Thompson-Lowe household, according to the indictment that relied on the accounts of the children.

Sometimes the children would get hit so hard that they could not sit down because of cuts and sores, the indictment said.

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