Finally, more details.

Boy kept in closet may have had history of abuse

'DENVER - Police records reveal a 7-year-old boy who weighed only 30 pounds may have had a history of malnourishment long before his death.

That is according to 9NEWS' partners at The Denver Post, who obtained a report on a traffic stop involving Chandler Grafner's mother.

The report, made by Wheat Ridge Police in March 2006, states than an officer pulled over Christina Grafner with her two sons, Chandler and his younger brother, in the truck.

The Post reports, the officer noticed one of the boys was very thin and that his front teeth were decayed. When the officer asked the boys when they had last eaten, the police report says the boys responded it had been three days.

Because the boys' names are blacked out in the police report, it is not clear which of them looked thin.

9NEWS has learned that paternity tests are pending to verify who Grafner's biological father is. One of the men who believes he is the father, told 9NEWS he is now saddened that he will never get the chance to be part of Grafner's life.

Josh Norris, 26, told 9NEWS he did not learn of Grafner's death until Thursday, when a reporter contacted him.

He says he is also angry because Jefferson County Social Services did not notify him when Christina Grafner lost custody of the children.

"No kid deserves to suffer through what Chandler did," Norris told 9NEWS.

Norris says he has not spoken with Christina Grafner since just after Chandler's birth. He says he never saw the child because he was out of state in the military for the first four years of the boy's life. When he returned to Colorado, he says he did not know how to contact Christina Grafner.

The couple arrested in Grafner's death was formally charged by the district attorney's office on Thursday.

The Denver District Attorney's Office charged 26-year-old Jon Phillips and 21-year-old Sarah Berry with first-degree murder causing the death of a child under 12, child abuse resulting in death and first-degree murder after deliberation.

The DA's office says Phillips and Berry intentionally and deliberately mistreated Chandler Grafner while he was in their care.

Both are being held without bond.

Grafner was found in an apartment complex at South Tamarac Drive and East Hampden Avenue on Sunday.

Authorities were called to the home on a report that a child was suffering a cardiac arrest.

Police sources tell 9NEWS Grafner weighed about 30 pounds and appeared to be severely malnourished. He was being kept in a closet, police sources say.

He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Phillips and Berry will appear in court again on May 14 to be formally advised of the charges.

A judge first gave custody of Grafner and his 5-year-old brother to their grandmother, Sandra Younger, after the judge took them away from her daughter, Christina Grafner, who Younger says has a drug problem.

Christina Grafner was charged last August with negligent child abuse, a third-degree misdemeanor. In October she served five days in jail because she missed a court hearing.

The judge later awarded Phillips custody of Grafner and his 5-year-old brother. The 5-year-old is Phillips' biological son and is now in foster care.

Berry is believed to be Phillips' common-law wife and worked at Grafner's school as a teacher's aide from time to time.

The official cause of Grafner's death has not yet been released and all documents in the case have been sealed.'