CENTENNIAL — Aaron Thompson of Aurora is on trial in Arapahoe County District Court for the death of his daughter Aaroné, who was reported missing in 2005.
The girl would have been 6 years old at the time of her reported disappearance. Her body has not been found. But police believe she died two years earlier.
Electronic devices cannot transmit from the courtroom, but The Denver Post is providing trial updates when possible.
2:25 p.m. Tammy Briseno, the current foster mother of two of the children of Shelley Lowe, Thompson’s former live-in girlfriend, testifies that one of the boys has had trouble coping with what happened.
The boy, now 12, has nightmares, Briseno said. And they are getting worse.
“He wakes up crying,” Briseno said. “He describes being chased by Big A and Shelley. More recently, they caught him.”
Some of the children living in the Thompson home called Thompson Big A or Big Aaron.
He talks about ghosts coming to his room and scaring him, Briseno said.
She also had another one of Lowe’s children living at their home. This boy was 14 when Aaroné was reported missing. He also had trouble sleeping and had nightmares about Lowe and Thompson.
“He would be up at night walking around,” Briseno said.
The boy would refer to Briseno’s husband, Rudy, as Big A, then he would start yelling and screaming at him, she said.
One day, the boy started acting like he was 7 years old, Briseno said. He hid behind a plant in the home because he was afraid of something, she said. He would have been about 16 years old at the time, she said.
11:30 a.m. One of Lowe’s sons said that one time, he saw Aaroné bleeding from a beating she received from Thompson in the basement of their Aurora home. The boy, now 12, said blood “was coming from her arms and legs.”
Then Aaroné went upstairs, the boy said, to take a bath. That would be the last time he saw Aaroné, the boy testified.
Later, he and another sibling in the home were told to clean the blood up from the carpet. Using bleach and carpet cleaner, he said they were able to clean it.
The boy also testified that another brother recorded a conversation between Lowe and Thompson about how the couple planned to bury Aaroné’s body.
“I heard them talking a little bit,” the boy said.
The boy, who is in the seventh grade, told the jury how Lowe and Thompson beat him. He said that sometimes Thompson would hold him down while Lowe beat him with an extension cord. Other times, Lowe and Thompson would take turns hitting him with the extension cord, the boy said.
Prosecutors showed pictures of the boy’s body that revealed marks left by the beatings on his back, legs, arms and ankles.
9:45 a.m. The day started with Judge Valeria Spencer informing the jury that one of the jurors had been dismissed. Spencer said it had nothing to do with the case but was for personal reasons.
