A Tennessee couple is facing a slew of charges after they allegedly claimed the woman’s toddler went missing while she was actually beaten to death.
Brittney Jackson, 25, and Jaylon Hobson, 21, were charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and abuse of a corpse among other counts.
On June 15, the suspects reported 4-year-old Sequoia Samuels missing claiming that she left the apartment while they were asleep.
However, investigators found a child’s remains in a dumpster near the couple’s Memphis apartment. The remains were later identified as Sequoia.
Detectives believe the girl was killed weeks before she was reported missing. Three other children lived in the same house where her remains were initially kept.
Jackson eventually admitted to the murder revealing that Hobson “physically attacked” her daughter until she “became unresponsive.”
