Missing Aurora girl's father appears in court

CENTENNIAL - A judge will rule on June 22nd whether to release the details from the written reports of the Arapahoe County Grand Jury on why they indicted Aaron Thompson on 60 counts. The judge made this ruling in court Tuesday morning.

He's the father of Aarone Thompson, the girl reported missing from her Aurora home more than a-year-and-a-half ago.

Her father is now accused of child abuse resulting in death, plus 59 other criminal counts.

The details of the case remain sealed.

Prosecutors previously asked for facts backing up the allegations to be blacked out from a grand jury indictment, but Thompson's lawyers now want the whole case to be sealed.

The Denver Post has filed a motion to release the information to the public, but a decision on that won't be made until at least June 22nd.

Police have said nearly since the beginning that they believe the girl is already dead, and may have been dead for some 18 months before her father reported her missing in November 2005.

District Attorney Carol Chambers has said that not all of the 60 counts relate to Aarone.

Both Thompson and his late girlfriend Shely Lowe have denied any involvement in Aarone's disappearance or death.

Lowe died of an apparent heart attack last year.