Mom of missing Savannah toddler charged with his murder - ABC News

The parent of missing Savannah, Georgia, toddler Quinton Simon has been charged with his execution aft remains were recovered astatine a landfill, constabulary announced Monday.

Leilani Simon, 22, reported her 20-month-old lad missing connected Oct. 5. One week later, Chatham County constabulary said they believed Quinton was dormant and authorities named the boy's parent arsenic the superior suspect.

Police provided this undated photograph of 20-month-old Quinton Simon, who was reported missing connected Oct. 5, 2022.

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Simon has been charged with malice murder, concealing the decease of different person, mendacious reporting and making mendacious statements, according to Chatham County police.

Police said they don't expect immoderate different arrests too Simon.

On Oct. 18, constabulary said they believed Quinton had been near successful a dumpster, and authorities announced that a hunt was underway for his assemblage successful the section landfill.

Searchers spent 30 days scouring 1.2 cardinal pounds of trash, constabulary said.

Searchers recovered remains astatine the landfill connected Friday, constabulary said, and investigating is present underway to find whether the remains beryllium to Quinton.

"The moving conditions were grueling and hazardous, and searchers knew that the chances of uncovering Quinton were low," constabulary said successful a statement. "Historically, the FBI says landfill searches are lone palmy 5% of the time."

"We are indebted to the galore instrumentality enforcement and nationalist work agencies who assisted with this search," Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley said.