Two Huntington residents have been arrested after the body of a three year old was found at a residence in the 1800 block of Seventh Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, July 12. The child suffered a cardiac arrest and officials at Cabell Huntington Hospital pronounced him dead.

UPDATED: Aaron Miles, 31, who is charged in the death of a three-year-old in Huntington has been hospitalized following an assault at the Western Regional Jail. No data is available on the extent of his injuries.

According to police reports the child's mother, Manya Jones 22 , and her boyfriend, Aaron Miles , 31, will be charged with child abuse resulting in death. WSAZ reports that three other children have been removed from the house and place under CPS care.

WSAZ reported too that Miles has admitted "hitting the child with a belt" as discipline. "He got his butt whipped." Miles told the Herald Dispatch that the boy had been "eating feces" and drinking toilet water for the last two days.

The boy had multiple injuries in various stages of healing, including some in the genital area. CPS had been, according to the report, been trying to contact the mother for a month.