CONTENT WARNING: Description of child neglect, unhealthy living conditions.

"Just take me to jail." Those are the words a Lima mother reportedly told the Beaverhead County Sheriff's Office undersheriff on Thursday, Oct. 16, after reporting that her almost-three-year-old son had been sick for months and now was dead.

The mother, Nichole Lynn Boyer, remains behind bars in the Beaverhead County Jail on a charge of deliberate homicide in the death of her disabled son. Bail is set at $500,000.

According to charging documents, Boyer had called dispatch and met the undersheriff outside the home on Main Street. When law enforcement entered the home, they observed the smell of decomposing human remains.

Describing the entirety of the home in poor condition, with the floors and surfaces throug

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