December 27th 2023.
On Christmas Eve, tragedy struck in Phoenix, Arizona when a 38-year-old mother, Sophia Simmons, allegedly murdered her young daughter and discarded the body in a dumpster.
Cops responded to a report of a body in a dumpster near a business at 31st and Grand avenues in Phoenix around 8 pm. After determining the remains were of a 'school-aged' girl, a witness came forward on Christmas Day with a tip that Simmons was the perpetrator.
The witness had been searching through a dumpster for firewood when they came across a tote that was partly open. Upon looking inside, they saw the girl's body. Medical examiners were called to the scene and found that the victim was five to seven years old. Her wounds were in various stages of healing, with scars present, indicating she had been physically abused.
A witness in New York reported getting a call from Simmons on Christmas Day. Simmons allegedly admitted to them that she had 'beaten her child and it went too far', before leaving her home and returning to find the child not breathing.
Using her phone records, detectives were able to track Simmons near Indio, California and apprehended her near 411th Avenue and Interstate 10 near Phoenix. After obtaining a search warrant and entering her home, they found signs of an effort to clean up a crime scene.
Simmons has been charged with first-degree murder, child abuse and tampering with evidence. This incident happened less than a year after a teenage girl and her boyfriend allegedly killed the boyfriend's mother and threw her body in a dumpster in Ohio. It is a tragedy that this mother and daughter will never have the opportunity to celebrate the holidays together again.
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