A 25-year-old mom from Tennessee and her 21-year-old boyfriend are in big trouble, accused of making up a story about the mom's missing 4-year-old daughter when they had actually done something terrible to her. They've been hit with a bunch of serious criminal charges.
A grand jury in Shelby County recently said "guilty" to Brittney Jackson and Jaylon Hobson on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of hurting a child real bad, plus one count each of messing with a dead body, hiding evidence, and lying to the cops. They're facing these charges in connection with the death of young Sequoia Samuels, based on info from legal documents checked out by Law&Crime.
This whole mess started when Memphis Police got concerned about Sequoia on June 15. That's the day Jackson and Hobson told the cops the little girl was missing. Jackson said she woke up around 7:55 a.m., and the front door of her place on Caldwell Avenue was wide open, with Sequoia nowhere in sight. She described Sequoia as a 3-foot-tall, 30-pound kid with a feeding tube on her stomach. The last anyone had seen of her was on a neighbor's video doorbell camera walking down the street at around 3 a.m.
The police announced the next day that they found a child's body, probably Sequoia, in a dumpster near Jackson and Hobson's apartment complex.
According to an affidavit seen by Law&Crime, the investigators think Sequoia died "several weeks" before Jackson and Hobson said she was missing. In an interview with the police, Jackson supposedly admitted that she lied to the cops and that Hobson had repeatedly hurt Sequoia for weeks until he beat her to death.
After the last attack, Sequoia stopped moving, and Hobson tried to wake her up but couldn't. Jackson didn't help her daughter and just left her like that. They put Sequoia's body in garbage bags and hid her in their house until June 15 when they dumped her in the trash.
Jackson was able to recognize pictures of the garbage bag and container where they left Sequoia. During those "several weeks," three other kids (ages 4, 5, and 6) were living in the house.
Hobson denied any connection to Sequoia's disappearance or death. He said he last saw her on June 11, which the police called impossible because of the bad state of the remains.
Both Jackson and Hobson are locked up in the Shelby County Detention Center. Right now, jail records show that Jackson's bail is set at $500,000, while Hobson's is $50,000.
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