A Georgia girl who reported her 20-month-old son lacking in 2022, setting off a big search till the boy’s stays had been present in a landfill, was sentenced to life in jail Thursday for his killing.
Leilani Simon was convicted of homicide final month in Quinton Simon’s killing. She was sentenced in a Chatham County courtroom to life with the potential for parole.
“The one factor that I’ll say earlier than announcing sentence is, clearly little Quinton Simon’s life and dying impacted many, many people, but in addition the neighborhood at massive,” Chatham County Judge Tammy Stokes stated.
Simon reported her son lacking from their residence in Chatham County, close to Savannah, on Oct. 5, 2022.
Authorities quickly stated that they believed Quinton was lifeless and that Simon was the prime suspect. His physique was present in a landfill round 5 weeks after he was reported lacking.
Simon was arrested in November 2022 and indicted on homicide and different prices the next month.
The indictment alleged that Simon brought on Quinton’s dying with an unknown object that brought on “critical bodily harm” after which dumped him in a trash bin round three miles away from her residence.
A jury convicted Simon in October of malice homicide, two counts felony homicide, concealing the dying of one other and different counts associated to false studies and false statements.
Simon was sentenced to what quantities to life in jail, in addition to a further 10 years.
She stood because the sentence was learn and nodded, apparently in acknowledgment, because the sentence was learn. She didn’t communicate.
Before concluding Thursday’s listening to, Stokes made one further remark.
“May there be peace, by some means,” the choose stated.