13-Year-Old New Mexico Boy Was Raped and Burned Before He Died

13-Year-Old New Mexico Boy Was Raped and Burned Before He Died
Tracy Ann Peña, 35, and boyfriend Thomas Wayne Ferguson, 42. Santa Fe Sheriff's Office
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New details have emerged about the death of a teenage boy who investigators found buried in a shallow grave on the side of the road near his home in New Mexico in late January.

Jeremiah Valencia, 13, was sexually assaulted and burned, and forced to live in a dog kennel before he was allegedly beaten to death in November, 2017, new court documents filed by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office have revealed, reported Santa Fe New Mexican.