Family member forced 6-year-old into cold shower as punishment — after it killed him relatives hid the body

CHICAGO — The 6-year-old North Chicago boy reported missing before his body was found days later in an abandoned northwest Indiana house had been forced into a cold shower by a relative as punishment before he died, Lake County prosecutors told a judge Sunday. Damari Perry had been forced to stay in the running shower for an unknown amount of time before he began vomiting and became unresponsive Dec. 29, authorities said during a Sunday morning bail hearing for his older brother. That sibling, Jeremiah R. Perry, 20, was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm to a child young...