The 20-month-old boy had been mysteriously missing since the beginning of October and since then searches had given no hope of finding him safe and sound.
Tragic outcome in the case of this disappearance in the United States: Quinton Simon was reported missing in early October in the state of Georgia in the United States and if all the signals showed that the mother was involved, the investigators had not been able to determine it with certainty. It is now done.
The child’s body was found in a landfill
Abandoned in a landfill: this is how the little boy ended his very short life. This is what investigators revealed on Tuesday, November 20. The mother of quinton simon22-year-old Leilani Simon, had told the police that they believed he had been abducted by his biological father but was eventually arrested today for the murder of the child. “This is a heartbreaking development for everyone who loved Quinton. For the many people who knew him after his disappearance and for our department. When we first received the call that Quinton was missing, we hoped to find him alive and unharmed, but as we have been telling you for weeks, all our evidence points to his mother being responsible for his death.” said Agent Jeffrey Hadley of the Chatham County Police Department at a press conference.
As revealed by our colleagues from Paris Match, Quinton Simon lived with his mother, her boyfriend, her maternal grandparents and another child. According to CNN, Quinton’s grandparents had custody of him, as did his three-year-old brother, just before their grandfather died in a terrible road accident last month. Billie Jo Howell, Quinton’s grandmother would however have launched a procedure at the beginning of September to have her daughter and her boyfriend expelled. She now finds herself without her husband and grandson and with a daughter behind bars.