Lacking Georgia toddler Quinton Simon — who police imagine to be lifeless — got here from a household so flawed his grandmother as soon as in contrast it to Showtime drama Shameless — a few clan riddled by drug and alcohol issues.
“Simply curious, what TV present may you examine your loved ones to? I’m gonna say mine is about as dysfunctional as ‘Shameless’” little Quinton’s grandma, Billie Jo Howell, mentioned in a video unearthed by social media sleuths.
Howell’s daughter, Leilani Simon, is at present the principle suspect in her son’s disappearance and has been out and in of court docket hearings all yr.
Court docket paperwork obtained by The Solar known as her a “continual, unrehabilitated substance abuser of cocaine and hashish”
Her brother, Quinton’s uncle and namesake, Nathaniel Quinton Betterton, is in jail for manslaughter and theft.
Georgia cops and FBI suppose Quinton was dropped in a “particular dumpster at a particular location” that might have been emptied on the county’s waste administration facility, which they're now painstakingly looking out for any clues or fragments of Quinton.
Whereas that search continued, the mother and grandma had been noticed downing pictures of top-shelf tequila, a bar worker solely informed the Submit.
Simon has beforehand admitted to doing medication whereas pregnant, and her personal mom as soon as mentioned she was untrustworthy.
“She hasn’t all the time carried out the precise factor,” Howell, who had authorized custody of Quinton, mentioned following her grandson’s disappearance.
“Generally she does actually nice, generally she doesn’t … I don’t know if I can belief her — I don’t.”
Howell — who has been reported to have a prolonged rap sheet — had been appointed authorized guardian of Simon’s different two kids, aged three and simply six months.
However the Division of Household and Kids Companies in Chatham County, Georgia, discovered she had “failed to offer enough supervision” and the youngsters have since been positioned in foster care.
Howell and her daughter seem to have a deeply unstable relationship. Though they partied collectively Tuesday, a month earlier Howell tried to evict Simon and her boyfriend, Daniel Youngkin, from her dwelling in line with court docket paperwork reviewed by The Submit.
“Not trying to be compensated. Simply need them to maneuver out as fast as potential,” Howell wrote about her daughter in Catham County court docket docs dated Sept. 8, nearly one month earlier than Quinton disappeared on Oct. 5.
“Leilani Simon is my daughter 22 years outdated along with her boyfriend and three youngsters. They've broken my property and at this level nobody resides in peace,” she continued.
Howell had additionally tried to evict one other of her youngsters, Paul Simon, in 2019.
“Not Paying a Weekly $50. Stealing. Not Going to Faculty. Doesn’t Have A Job. Hire Began On His 18th Birthday. April thirteenth. Paul Has A Pending Price For Stealing $100. Paul Simon Is My Son,” she wrote within the court docket docs obtained by The Submit about little Quinton’s uncle.
One other one among Quinton’s uncles, Nathaniel Quinton Betterton, can also be at present in jail.
Betterton was sentenced to 45 years in jail in 2013 for the 2011 killing of Timothy Moore, in line with Savannah Now.
Moore tried to battle again whereas being robbed by Betterton, who responded by capturing him a number of instances.
By means of a plea deal, he copped to lesser fees of voluntary manslaughter and armed theft.
Cody Wharton, who shares a toddler, Zayne, with Simon, mentioned in an interview not too long ago that Quinton’s mother was arrested for shoplifting in 2019 and has spent a while in jail.
“She’s an excellent dad or mum, however ever since she bought on medication, I query every little thing,” he mentioned.
“She took cocaine … its been two years at the very least [she’s been using]. I do know somebody who witnessed it for 2 years,” he claimed in an interview with Justin Jensenn.
Wharton mentioned he tried to get in contact with Simon after he heard Quinton was lacking as a result of he was nervous about Zayne, however she ignored his texts and calls, even after he known as police and requested them to do a welfare test.
Wharton mentioned they haven't spoken since Quinton’s disappearance on Oct. 5.
Whereas police and the FBI carried out a frantic seek for Quinton’s stays, Simon and her mother headed to Sting Ray’s on Tybee Island to social gathering.
“They had been having a good time, like they didn’t have a care on this planet,” the server who witnessed Howell and Simon’s partying on Tuesday mentioned.
“They had been ingesting Patron tequila pictures within the deck space, being loud and laughing. It’s nearly like they had been attempting to attract consideration to themselves.”
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