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This photo provided by the Vigo County Sheriff's Department shows Robin Lee Kraemer, one of four people charged with neglect in the death of a malnourished 9-year-old Indiana boy with cerebral palsy. Cameron R. Hoopingarner was blind and weighed less than 15 pounds when officers found him Tuesday at a home near Fontanet, Ind., 60 miles west of Indianapolis, Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing said. The officers were responding to a call about a child in cardiac arrest. Cameron was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Vigo County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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This photo provided by the Vigo County Sheriffs Department shows Chad Allen Kraemer, 33, one of four people charged with neglect in the death of a malnourished 9-year-old Indiana boy with cerebral palsy. Cameron R. Hoopingarner was blind and weighed less than 15 pounds when officers found him Tuesday at a home near Fontanet, Ind., 60 miles west of Indianapolis, Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing said. The officers were responding to a call about a child in cardiac arrest. Cameron was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Vigo County Sheriffs Department via AP)
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This photo provided by the Vigo County Sheriffs Department shows Hubert A Kraemer, 56, one of four people charged with neglect in the death of a malnourished 9-year-old Indiana boy with cerebral palsy. Cameron R. Hoopingarner was blind and weighed less than 15 pounds when officers found him Tuesday, Feb. 21, at a home near Fontanet, Ind., 60 miles west of Indianapolis, Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing said. The officers were responding to a call about a child in cardiac arrest. Cameron was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Vigo County Sheriffs Department via AP)
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2015, file photo, traffic passes through downtown Eureka Springs, Ark. The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, that a Fayetteville ordinance extending anti-discrimination protection to members of the LGBT community violated a state law. Fayetteville, Eureka Springs and a handful of other cities had approved local ordinances prohibiting discrimination. The court agreed with state lawyers who said legislators intended to have uniform anti-discrimination measures statewide. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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FILE - In this June 10, 2014, file photo, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge speaks at an event in Little Rock. Rutledge said Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, she was pleased that the state Supreme Court had tossed out a Fayetteville ordinance extending anti-discrimination protection to members of the LGBT community. Fayetteville, Eureka Springs and a handful of other cities had approved local ordinances prohibiting discrimination. The court agreed with state lawyers who said legislators intended to have uniform anti-discrimination measures statewide. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011, file photo, Samuel Mullet Sr. stands in front of his home in Bergholz, Ohio. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, not to review Mullet's conviction as leader of a breakaway group prosecuted for hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in 2011, and serving a nearly 11-year sentence in federal prison in Elkton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011, file photo, Samuel Mullet Sr. stands in front of his home in Bergholz, Ohio. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, not to review Mullet's conviction as leader of a breakaway group prosecuted for hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in 2011, and serving a nearly 11-year sentence in federal prison in Elkton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
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In this Feb. 6, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections shows Tony Robinson. Relatives of Robinson, an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot March 6, 2015, by police in Madison, Wis., say they have settled a federal civil rights lawsuit for $3.35 million. (Wisconsin Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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An officer stands outside a Subway in Houston, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. Houston police say an 18-year-old sandwich shop employee has been fatally shot during an attempted robbery as he tried to protect his mother who also worked at the store. Police say the Javier Flores and his mother were the only people in the southeast Houston Subway restaurant near closing time Wednesday night when two assailants rushed in and pointed a gun at the woman. Detective David Crowder says Flores "attempted to push (her) out of the way as the suspect was firing, and he was hit and the mother was not." ( J. Patric Schneider/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Diana Mejia, center, an activist with Winds of the Spirit N.J., is carried by Elizabeth Police officers while being arrested during an immigration protest outside of a detention center, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Elizabeth, N.J. Mejia and four other activists were taken into custody during the rally. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Diana Mejia, center, an activist with Winds of the Spirit N.J., is carried by Elizabeth Police officers while being arrested during an immigration protest outside of a detention center, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Elizabeth, N.J. Mejia and four other activists were taken into custody during the rally. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Attorney Sam Zaganjori testifies during day two of an evidentiary hearing on whether Owen Labrie will be granted a retrial at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vt., was acquitted in 2015 of raping a 15-year-old classmate when he was 18 in a game of sexual conquest at St. Paul's School in Concord. He was convicted of misdemeanor sexual assault and child endangerment, as well as a felony charge of using a computer to lure the girl for sex. (Elizabeth Frantz/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Protesters hold signs in front of an LAPD officer's home in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. A Los Angeles policeman is under investigation after a video appears to show him firing a single round during an off-duty tussle with a 13-year-old boy. No one was injured but two teenagers were arrested after the incident, which spurred dozens of people to protest against police Wednesday night in the streets of Anaheim, where the officer lives and the confrontation occurred. (Joshua Sudock/The Orange County Register via AP)
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Mr. Lane, who did not give his first name, sits with his family in their home Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in San Diego. The Lane family has been on edge since President Donald Trump took office. The mother, a Mexican who is in the country illegally, now carries her birth and marriage certificates and other documents wherever she goes. Around the country, Trump's efforts to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. have spread fear and anxiety and led many people to brace for arrest and to change up their daily routines in hopes of not getting caught. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**
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Mr. Lane, who did not give his first name, stands over a pile of documents on the dining room table as one of his children pass, right, in their home Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in San Diego. The Lane family has been on edge since President Donald Trump took office. The mother, a Mexican who is in the country illegally, now carries her birth and marriage certificates and other documents wherever she goes. Around the country, Trump's efforts to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. have spread fear and anxiety and led many people to brace for arrest and to change up their daily routines in hopes of not getting caught. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Members of the Lane family watch a movie in their home Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in San Diego. The family has been on edge since President Donald Trump took office. The mother, a Mexican who is in the country illegally, now carries her birth and marriage certificates and other documents wherever she goes. Around the country, Trump's efforts to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. have spread fear and anxiety and led many people to brace for arrest and to change up their daily routines in hopes of not getting caught. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Mr. Lane, who did not give his first name, sits at the dining room table as his two children watch a movie in their home Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in San Diego. The Lane family has been on edge since President Donald Trump took office. The mother, a Mexican who is in the country illegally, now carries her birth and marriage certificates and other documents wherever she goes. Around the country, Trump's efforts to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. have spread fear and anxiety and led many people to brace for arrest and to change up their daily routines in hopes of not getting caught. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, second left, of Ohio participates in a ceremonial House swearing-in ceremony for Del. Eni H. Faleomavaega, third from right, D-American Samoa, on Capitol Hill in Washington. American Samoa’s longest serving non-voting delegate to the U.S House of Representatives Faleomavaega died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, at age 73. His sister-in-law, Therese Hunkin, didn’t disclose the cause of death but said he died at his home in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)