They were signed by Daniel Glatman, manager of former boy band Blue, after he saw the choir performing at a wedding.

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Police Director Daniel Zieser told CNN affiliate WCBS that the boy had apparently been in the apartment for five or six days, with no food he could reach.

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Daniel Watkins, uncle of the 6-year-old boy, told CNN affiliate WCBS that the two children were friends.

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Josephine Fanning had gone into a bedroom, along with the boy, where her husband -- Wilson County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Fanning -- was showing a relative some of the lawman's guns.

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