Mother, ex-boyfriend, who was charged with Matthew Maison for murder in 2018

St. Clair County, me. -It was more than seven years since the 3-year-old Matthew Maison was killed in Port Huron Township and the case finally progressed in court.

The mother of Matthew Maison, Amanda Maison (33), and her former friend Maurice Houle (28) are due to appear in court on Tuesday, May 13th.

You should be available on April 29, but these hearings were postponed to May 13th, since the discovery had to be checked in this case.

Here is everything we have learned about the case so far:

The boy was found dead in 2018, arrested 2 years later

Matthew Maison from Port Huron Township was found dead in February 2018.

By Friday, April 11, 2025, when Amanda Maison and Maurice Houle were taken into custody, there had been no arrests in this case.

The deputies of the Sheriff's Office of the St. Clair County said that the arrests came after “significant recent developments”.

Maison and Houle have charged

Maison and Houle were charged on Monday, April 14th.

Houle was charged with the first degree murder and three cases of resistance and disability of a police officer, and Maison was charged with first degree because of a murder.

No guilty requests were entered on behalf of Houle and Maison. Bond was denied for both.

The charges of houle in connection with the resistance to civil servants come from the time when he was arrested on Friday, April 11th.

He was supposedly extremely violent and fought eight different officers, which injured one of them. The deputy public prosecutor of St. Clair County, Joshua Sparling, said they only charged him with three cases, but there could have been more.

Proof of abuse throughout Matthew throughout the life

When they were brought in, the authorities learned about a suspected program in which Houle and Maison suffered some of his previous injuries, according to Sparling, as Matthew suffered some of his previous injuries. One of the people who were supposedly involved in this scheme of lies was Houle's mother.

“This is an extremely serious case. Obviously, we have charges for murder for crimes that are justified by child abuse to the first degree,” said Sparling. “We have a small child who was the victim here. This little child, Matthew, suffered from both defendants for years.”

Sparling said both accused admitted to the investigators that the other Matthew had abused.

The prosecutor said Matthew was hit by Houle on his face and would put the time out on his knees and let his head hit the dry wall. The boy was also locked up in his room for hours without eating or water, and there was a time when houles put a pillow on Matthew's face, “and pretended to play,” said Sparling.

The autopsy showed that, according to Sparling, Matthew died of dull strength trauma and a possible survival.

Houle was also the subject of several CPS examinations for injuries to Matthew throughout the boy's life.

The deputy prosecutor also said that this was part of a plan that was “created to kill Matthew to make room for a child that the two could have together”.

Amanda Maison was accused of hiding abuse for years

Maison is accused. She allegedly admitted to the investigators that, according to Sparling, she would also push the boy's head into the drywall wall, “powerful enough to remove the support of the drywall wall”.

She told the investigators that she held Houle a pillow over Matthew's face several times.

Maison also admitted to lying about the abuse, lying about what she originally said to the police officer and had lied to CPS during previous investigations. The mother allegedly also admitted that she had not brought Matthew to the doctor's appointments because she didn't want her to see his injuries.

Sparling shared these cases of abuse in his argument why Houle and Maison should not receive a bond.

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