Last week, Alabama police searched the home of a toddler boy who is presumed dead following his suspicious disappearance in September.
According to WBMA, Fayette County authorities were conducting a search near two sheds at Kahleb Collins’ residence in Glen Allen. As part of the operation, police utilized a pickup truck to block off the yard where tarps had been sighted.
After his father and sister perished in a car accident in Fayette County on December 8, Collins was reported missing. It was later discovered that Collins was not involved in the fatal crash.
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Wendy Bailey, the mother of the children, who is 22 years old, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with her daughter’s demise. Despite the fact that the father was behind the wheel during the incident, authorities concluded that Bailey exhibited negligence by not ensuring her daughter was properly restrained before the collision, resulting in the death of one child and significant injuries to the other.
In addition to negligent homicide charges, Bailey was charged with child abuse for disregarding and failing to report the abuse Collins suffered at his father’s hands in July. Investigators wrote that, on at least two instances, Bailey witnessed Collins “being bound with rope, physically assaulted, and being bound by a rope from a loft with blood and bruising present.”
Bailey is also charged with abusing a corpse as investigators believe Collins has been dead for several months. Authorities said Collins’ body was put in a bag and stashed in a storage building. His body was eventually discarded at an unknown location, they also said.
Days after the deadly wreck, Collins’ grandfather, John Bailey, 50, was arrested for failing to report Kahleb Collins’ disappearance. He remains jailed on $100,000 bond. Wendy Bailey also remains jailed.
[Feature Photo: Alabama Law Enforcement Agency]
