Mom who wrapped 4-year-old's remains in a shower curtain and dumped him behind a shopping center learns her fate

A Georgia pistillate who tried to evade authorities aft dumping her 4-year-old son's assemblage has been sentenced aft pleading blameworthy to murdering the small boy.

Keara Cotton, 31, entered a blameworthy plea to second-degree execution and concealing a death connected Wednesday, 4 years aft she was charged with killing her 4-year-old lad Jayceion Mathis. According to a property merchandise from Crisp County District Attorney Brad Rigby, a justice sentenced Cotton to 25 years successful situation connected the time her lad would person turned 9 years old.

As Law&Crime previously reported, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigated Cotton aft members of her household told section authorities that they had not seen Jayceion for months. They filed a study with the Vienna Police Department connected Jan. 20, 2022. Police were incapable to marque interaction with Cotton and reached retired to the GBI for assistance.

The GBI announced Cotton's apprehension connected Jan. 24, 2022, but the lawsuit took a tragic crook the adjacent time erstwhile the bureau said a child's remains had been recovered successful Cordele, Georgia. The remains, which Rigby said were wrapped successful a buying container and ablution curtain and recovered adjacent a buying center, were aboriginal identified arsenic Jayceion.

Local Fox and ABC affiliate WGXA reported that aft Cotton was apprehended, she told constabulary that connected 1 greeting successful November 2021, Jayceion did not aftermath up. She did not telephone for help, and alternatively wrapped up the boy's assemblage and lived with it successful her home. WGXA reported that Cotton spoke to her household successful January 2022 and told them that she would travel spot them and bring Jayceion with her.

When she was a no-show, Cotton's household contacted police. Authorities aboriginal determined that Cotton fled to 3 antithetic areas successful Georgia successful bid to evade instrumentality enforcement.

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Rigby said the aesculapian examiner was incapable to find Jayceion's nonstop origin of decease owed to the information of his body.

WGXA reported that Cotton was the taxable of an probe by the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services successful transportation with Jayceion and his older sister. Two months earlier the small lad was recovered dead, Cotton faced allegations that she was not feeding oregon bathing her children. Similar reports were filed and resolved successful the years starring up to Jayceion's death.

Cotton was sentenced to 25 years successful situation aft pleading blameworthy to execution and concealing a death.