In 2002, a psychiatrist from Ohio contacted the Philadelphia police, telling them that one of his patients said she knew how the boy had died. She said her parents, both educators, had purchased the child to use as a sex toy. One day, when her mother was bathing the boy, whom they named Jonathan, he started to struggle and she hit him hard enough to kill. The woman, who was 10 at the time of the killing, said that she had been on the side of the road, helping her mother dispose of the body, when a man pulled over to ask if they needed help. She was very tall and often mistaken for a boy.