A household buddy is detailing the dramatic ultimate hours earlier than Georgia mother Leilani Simon was arrested for the homicide of her toddler son — together with her “final free meal” together with her personal mom.
Simon, 22, was arrested on Monday after police introduced they discovered stays believed to be these of her 20-month-old son, Quinton, in a landfill on Friday.
Chatting with WTOC by telephone on Tuesday, Simon’s mom, Billie Howell, was too emotional to debate the case and handed the telephone to a household buddy. The buddy, who has not been recognized, informed the outlet that Simon checked herself into rehab within the weeks earlier than her arrest.
When Howell heard that Simon was leaving the ability, she “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 … and that she was going to be a flight threat.”
On the FBI’s request, Howell picked Simon up from the therapy heart herself.
“They requested her to purchase a while. So, she went and picked up Leilani’s belongings from one other heart, after which she took Leilani to have her final free meal,” the buddy defined.
The pair then went to the FBI workplace in Savannah, the place Simon was arrested just a few hours later.
Simon’s arrest marked the most recent growth within the intensive investigation that started when she reported Quinton lacking from the household’s residence on Oct. 5. Days later, police confirmed that they believed the toddler was useless, and that Simon — who has two different younger youngsters — was the prime suspect.
As of Tuesday, she is charged with homicide, concealing the dying of one other, making a false crime report, and making false statements.
“We wish justice served for this valuable child, it doesn't matter what it's, regardless of who it's,” the household buddy stated. “On the finish of the day, all of the protesters and the household all needed the identical factor.”
Diana McCarta, Quinton’s longtime baby-sitter, was emotional about Simon’s arrest. McCarta was set to baby-sit the toddler the day he disappeared, however acquired an early morning textual content from Simon telling her to not come.
“You surprise what he needed to endure from the time that he left my home, to the morning after I received the textual content,” she informed WTOC. “I can’t even think about and I don’t wish to give it some thought as a result of it drives me loopy.
“I simply don’t know the way any mom might damage their baby. I don’t know what might be going by way of their head for them to harm their baby. I'm completely happy that justice goes to be served, as a result of Quinton wants that.”
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