Quinton Simon went lacking October 5.
Chatham County Police Division
Quinton Simon’s child sitter completely advised Fox Information Digital that she discovered the boy and his toddler brother alone within the household’s pool over the summer season — and now suspects that the lacking boy drowned.
“I felt the entire time that this has occurred that Quinton obtained out and possibly obtained into the pool,” Diana McCarta, 47, advised Fox Information Digital. “That’s my emotions all alongside as a result of Zayne can open the door, and so they’ve gone out earlier than.”
The 20-month-old vanished from the household’s Savannah house Oct. 5, and police stated they imagine the kid is lifeless and was probably discarded in a dumpster that was emptied on the native landfill.
Authorities have named the kid’s mom, Leilani Simon, 22, because the prime suspect, and her different two youngsters, 6-month-old Sky and 3-year-old Zayne, have been positioned in foster care.
McCarta, who had been watching Simon’s three youngsters for about 9 months earlier than Quinton’s disappearance, stated her 16-year-old daughter discovered Quinton and Zayne alone within the household’s full-size yard pool over the summer season. The kids can't swim.
“I am going down there, and so they was within the pool and we obtained them out — Leilani was sleeping,” she advised Fox Information Digital. “It was scary.”
After Quinton went lacking, authorities drained the pool to search for the kid.
McCarta, who has six youngsters of her personal, stated Simon’s youngsters weren't well-cared for.
“Each time they arrive over right here, we bathed them. They have been soiled. We fed them good as a result of they have been at all times hungry,” stated the sitter who lives throughout the road. “Positively, there was neglect there.”
The pool incident was not the one time the toddlers had wandered off. A month in the past, McCarta stated she discovered Quinton and Zayne taking part in alone in a ditch two ft from the busy roadway in entrance of Simon’s house.
McCarta additionally stated it was unusual that Quinton usually didn't wish to depart her home.
“Typically Quinton would cry when he needed to go together with his mother,” she stated.
Simon and her boyfriend – the daddy of Sky, Daniel Youngkin – lived together with her mom, Billie Jo Howell, who had custody of the youngsters.
Howell, who has a prolonged rap sheet, was granted custody after the court docket decided that Simon “is a persistent, unrehabilitated substance abuser of cocaine and hashish,” based on paperwork obtained by the US Solar.
Simon, who's on probation for shoplifting, allegedly admitted to utilizing cocaine and examined optimistic for the drug on the delivery of 1 her youngsters.
Howell had left city earlier within the week, leaving the youngsters alone together with her daughter at evening. On Oct. 5, at 5:20 a.m., Simon advised McCarta in a textual content that she wouldn't be dropping off the children.
McCarta stated at about 8:40 a.m. Youngkin requested her if she had seen Quinton.
Later that morning, Simon reported the boy lacking to police and stated Youngkin had been the final particular person to see him at 6 a.m.
Police and the FBI interviewed McCarta and searched her trash cans.
McCarta and her household are heartbroken. “He’s a loving child,” she stated. “We’re simply praying on daily basis. We’re paying that he's discovered, that he’s discovered protected.”
The large seek for Quinton has entered its third week. The Chatham County Police Division and FBI have been sifting by means of town’s sprawling native landfill in search of the kid’s stays.
Chatham County Police have known as the search “probably the most large endeavor ever for our division.”
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