BUFFALO (AP) -- The Buffalo Police Department has launched an internal investigation into how its officers handled a 10-year-old boy's reports of abuse a year before he was found beaten to death in his family's basement.
A department spokesman says the police commissioner ordered the investigation into 911 calls Abdifatah Mohamud made in April 2011, telling authorities his step-father was abusing him. Officers responding to a missing child report last week found the boy's body in the basement of the family's home.
Authorities say he had been beaten to death by his step-father, Ali-Mohamad Mohamud. The 40-year-old security guard has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge.
The Buffalo News reports that the officers who responded to the 911 calls last year reported the boy's allegations to Erie County Child Protective Services. CPS officials aren't commenting on the case.
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