told FOX 19 in Cincinnati. "He did what I think any of us would do."Following the incident, Judge Megan Shanahan found Hughes in contempt of court and sentenced him to seven days at the Hamilton County Justice Center, FOX 19 reported.
Hughes is the father of Nylo Lattimore, a 3-year-old boy who went missing in December 2020. Brown is accused of fatally stabbing Nylo’s mother, Nyteisha Lattimore, who was his girlfriend at the time, before throwing the boy off a pedestrian bridge in the Ohio River.
Authorities believe Nylo was still alive at the time.The boy’s body hasn’t been recovered despite more than a year of searching in multiple states.
The veteran prosecutor told The Associated Press the case has given him nightmares."I can’t even imagine what that little boy was going through," he said.Brown is charged in both their deaths and faces the death penalty.