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Harrisburg police, coroner's officials and representatives from the district attorney's office gathered outside a home off Green Street where a child was found dead earlier Friday night.
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UPDATE:Harrisburg mother said she didn't know son was dead upstairs in her house.
Criminal charges have been filed against a man regarding the dead body of a young boy found at a Harrisburg home late Friday night on Green Street.
Jarrod Nicholas Tutko, 38, was charged with endangering the welfare of children, concealing the death of a child and abuse of a corpse early Saturday morning, according to court records.
Bail information regarding Tutko was not immediately available.
Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico confirmed this morning that Tutko is the father of household.
Marsico declined to answer any other questions about the arrest until an autopsy is performed on the boy's body on Tuesday.
Police said the body had been in the home for "several days."
City police were called to home at 2119 North Green Street at approximately 8:40 p.m. and quickly requested both the Dauphin County Coroner's Office and city detectives and forensics units to the scene.
Both parents had been taken from the scene for questioning. The mother and father left the scene — both in handcuffs — in separate police cruisers, police said.
The couple's five remaining children — several of whom suffer from undisclosed medical conditions — were being handed over to the care of county children and youth specialists as of Friday night.
This story has been updated to note that the autopsy was rescheduled to Tuesday.