Quinton Simon was crushed to demise by his ‘drugged up’ mom and dumped in a cellular house dumpster, in line with prosecutors.
Leilani Simon, 22, was supposedly excessive on medication when she used an unidentified object to beat her two-year-old son which precipitated ‘critical bodily damage’ and led to his demise, prosecutors revealed on Wednesday.
The mom of three was underneath the affect had met along with her drug supplier proper earlier than the October homicide, in line with the indictment prices. The 22-year-old then dumped his physique on the Azalea Cellular Dwelling Park.
She beforehand instructed police that her son was kidnapped by an intruder who broke into her Savannah house. Leilani was arrested in November however investigators have not disclosed the main points that led to her arrest.
Leilani was indicted on 19 counts and faces prices together with malice homicide, felony homicide, concealment of demise and making false statements to police about Quinton’s demise.
Leilani Simon, 22, was ‘excessive on medication’ when she beat her two-year-old son with an unidentified object which result in his demise in October
Quinton Simon’s stays had been present in a Georgia landfill on November 18, and Leilani was arrested three days later
Leilani reported her son lacking from her house on October 5, however Chatham County Police Chief believed she was the suspect for the reason that begin of the investigation, in line with Fox Information.
A Chatham County grand jury handed down the indictment towards Leilani on Wednesday after discovering Quinton’s lacking physique in a Georgia landfill on November 18 – three days after Leilani was arrested.
It says that Leilani ‘did maliciously trigger her son, Quinton Simon, a human being and a toddler underneath the age of 18 years, merciless and extreme bodily ache… and the {accused} did, within the fee of this offense trigger Quinton’s demise,’ WJLC studies.
The mom of three faces prices of malice homicide, felony homicide, concealment of demise and making false statements to police
The indictment revealed that Leilani left her Buckhaulter home on October 4 to satisfy her drug supplier and left the subsequent morning on October 5 to dump his physique.
Quinton was final seen alive on October 5 by Leliani’s boyfriend, Daniel Youngkin, who noticed him in a pack-n-play at 6am.
Three hours later, Leilani reported Quinton lacking from her house. She claimed to have woken up at 9.30am and located the door of the home open along with her son gone.
‘These are the circumstances that hold us up at night time, these are the circumstances that want justice,’ District Lawyer Shalena Cook dinner Jones mentioned in a information convention on Wednesday.
‘We have now the proof to carry these prices due to the laborious work of the investigators, brokers and rangers who labored on this case.’
She added that the legal investigation is ongoing, and wouldn’t disclose what proof police have discovered that led to Leilani’s arrest.
Quinton Simon is pictured together with his dad and mom and brother
A grand jury indictment revealed she met along with her drug supplier on October 4 and left her house the subsequent day to dump his stays at a trailer park. Investigators who had been capable of observe down Quinton’s stays to a Savannah landfill (pictured)
Leilani’s boyfriend beforehand claimed he final noticed Quinton alive on October 5 at 6am – hours earlier than the mom reported him kidnapped at round 9am
Chatham County District Lawyer Shalena Cook dinner Jones wouldn’t disclose what proof officers have acquired that led to Leilani’s indictment and mentioned the case is ongoing
Leilani was noticed with Billie Jo Betterton Howell, her mom, at Sting Ray’s, a seaside bar close to Tybee Island, ingesting tequila about two weeks after Quinton went lacking.
DailyMail.com revealed that the 2 had been on the bar downing Patron photographs for 3 hours.
Previous to her arrest and following weeks of media scrutiny, Leilani had checked herself right into a therapy heart, in line with a report.
When she knowledgeable her mom that she was planning to examine herself out of this system, it was Howell who made the choice to let the FBI know her daughter’s subsequent transfer.
‘Her mom needed to make one of many hardest selections of her life, and name the FBI brokers and allow them to know that she was signing herself out,’ mentioned a household pal who has been staying with Howell since Quinton’s disappearance.
The pal mentioned that Howell on the request of the FBI, retrieved Leilani from the therapy heart and spent the latter’s previous few free hours along with her.
She then took her daughter to the Savannah FBI workplace the place she was in the end arrested and charged along with her son’s homicide.
Billie Jo Howell, 45, had custody of younger Quinton Simon, when he was reported lacking on October 5. She was away on the time, and the boy was staying together with his mom
Howell was arrested Monday on Contempt of Courtroom prices and is now on suicide prevention watch on the Chatham County detention heart
Earlier than Quinton died, Leilani had misplaced youngster custody of Quinton for an unknown motive.
Quinton was in Howell’s custody earlier than he went lacking, however she was out of city when he disappeared.
Howell was additionally arrested Monday on Contempt of Courtroom prices unrelated to Quinton’s case and is now on suicide prevention watch on the Chatham County detention heart after she claimed she ‘misplaced the whole lot.’
Leilani’s two different youngsters had been faraway from her custody every week after Quinton was reported lacking.
She has pleaded not responsible to the fees filed towards her and can seem in courtroom on January 11.
