Three teens were charged with desecrating a corpse after they allegedly used the skull of an 11-year-old boy buried in Kingwood, Texas, to make a bong.
Kevin Wade Jones, 17, Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 17, and a 16-year-old boy were all arrested on one count of desecrating a corpse. The suspects are accused of digging up the skull buried in a cemetery for African American war veterans and using it to smoke marijuana (video: MyFoxHouston).
"They cut the jaw off of it and wrapped it in electrical tape and used it to make a bong," Houston Police Department Officer Jim Adkins said.
Carolyn Gonzalez, Matthew Gonzalez's mother, said her son was there when it happened although he had no part in digging up the corpse.
"Nobody deserves that -- not even a corpse," she said.
Houston Police Department officials are not releasing the name of the deceased corpse because they are still trying to contact family members.
But FOX 26 reports that the boy died Sept. 11, 1921.
His skull has not been recovered, Adkins said.
"We'd like the head back and place it back in the grave so that we can let this person rest," he said.