A weeklong police investigation into a child’s disappearance, spurred by a tip from a news outlet, has led to a 28-year-old woman being charged with the murder of her 4-year-old son.
The case first appeared on the radar of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Special Victims Unit on Dec. 30, when police received information about a child who had gone missing in West Philly, Officer Tanya Little, a department spokesperson, said Saturday. 6ABC, in a report on its website, wrote that the news station had shared the tip with police.
Relatives of the child’s mother, Dominique Bailey, told investigators that Bailey had allegedly claimed that the boy, Damari Carter, had been struck and killed by a car, Little said.
Detectives, however, found no trace of such an occurrence.
The boy’s body has not yet been found.
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Dominique Bailey had allegedly told relatives that her child had been struck and killed by a motorist, but police found no evidence of such an incident.
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On Jan. 5, police executed a search warrant at a home on the 3800 block of Reno Street in connection to the investigation and apprehended a man who has been identified by police as Kevin Spencer.
That same day, Bailey told police she was involved in her child's death, according to investigators. Police said they have not yet found the child's body, however.
Bailey is charged with murder, endangering the welfare of a child, false reports, abuse of corpse and other related offenses. The unidentified man has not yet been charged but police continue to investigate.
Spencer, 30, has been charged with criminal conspiracy, murder, endangering the welfare of a child, abuse of corpse and other charges.
Philadelphia mother arrested for allegedly killing her 4-year-old child, police say
A Philadelphia mother is accused of murdering her child and then claiming the child was struck and killed by a car.
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