No Justice for Trash Can Baby
Christian Woods, MURDERER
Meet Christian Woods. You don’t know her because she isn’t pretty and white, and she was never one of the top five teasers at the top of the news. She was also never tauted from the Nancy Grace show as Nancy bellows for justice from her bully pulpit whilst screaming “BOMBSHELL TONIGHT! Trash Can Momma’s secret video jail tapes revealed!”. She is a virtual no one yet her crime is not an unfamiliar one. She killed her child. She killed her child in the state of Florida. In October 2009, while complete strangers were getting ready to celebrate their first Halloween without Caylee Anthony, 18-month old Myleahya Woods was found stuffed in a trash can after being reported missing. Mother Christian Woods was booked on one count of manslaughter and two counts of felony cruelty of a child.
On Monday, October 12, 2009 Christian told deputies in Escambia County that the girl had gone missing. The mother said she had gone to Mobile, Alabama, for the weekend, leaving the girl, her twin sister and a 2-year-old boy home alone. Woods left six containers of Jell-O for the children to eat. There was no water or electricity in the home.When Myleahya was found in the trash she weighed 11-pounds. Her brother and her sister were malnourished and lived in deplorable conditions.
Here is where this story gets tricky. Where is the outcry for little Myleahya? She was 18-months old and not much younger than Caylee when she went missing. She was probably a pleasant, little girl like most toddlers are.
Investigators FOUND her body in a trash can and were able to determine that she died most likely of malnourishment since she only weighed 11-pounds, yet her mother was only charged with manslaughter.
But it wasn’t until early Tuesday morning that investigators found Myleahya’s body and her twin sister, Mykayhla, barely alive under a bed at a home in the 5600 block of Scotland Circle, Sheriff David Morgan said.
“I was, obviously, shocked by the case itself,” Morgan said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference at the Sheriff’s Office. “My reaction was the same as the investigators when they found the child alive.”
Mykayhla and her brother, Jaterius Woods, 2, were at a local hospital Tuesday being treated for signs of neglect, including dehydration. Mykayhla was in an intensive care unit, the sheriff said.
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