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Moo leaves her disabled kid to die in a closet August 09, 2026 | Registered: 20 years ago Posts: 10,483 |
https://www.dekalbda.org/news_detail_T6_R368.php
Not a recent case, but one I just found out about yesterday.
I assume the perp was tired of taking care of her 7-year-old special needs child, so she strapped the girl into a stroller, put her in a closet, stacked stuff in front of her so she wouldn't be easy to see, and then moved out of her apartment permanently.
Another source said she told the neighbors and her family that she had left the girl with the father's family to avoid suspicion. And that an anonymous man contacted the police when he noticed a terrible odor coming from the apartment. He found her mummified remains. Some sources say he found the door open, while others say it was locked and the man broke in out of concern.
Some people on Reddit said plastic was found in her stomach during the autopsy, implying she ate whatever was within reach, but I can't find outside sources confirming this. Also, from Reddit, some people said the police didn't find the body when they visited the first time, so the girl's uncle placed a purse containing the mother's ID on top of the girl's remains so she would be found and the perp identified. One person said the father wanted her to give the girl p for adoption, but she refused. Again, cannot confirm how true all this is.
Moo said that her life had become "too much" and that's why she abandoned the girl, who suffered from autism, cerebral palsy and seizures. She was just happily carrying on living a normal life someplace else when she was arrested.
I don't doubt for a second her life had become too difficult because that sounds like a very high needs child. But WHY did she just abandon the girl to die? Could she not have surrendered her? Couldn't she have asked other relatives if they'd be willing to take her? Couldn't she have put on a mask and abandoned her in an ER so no one would identify her? She probably could have gone to multiple places for help, either help with caring for the kid or help in putting her up for adoption. I assume the father was not playing an active role in the girl's care.
I'm also going to go out on a limb and assume the girl was probably screaming and crying and none of the neighbors paid her any mind because she probably threw autistic tantrums all the time. Or maybe she was nonverbal and didn't scream/cry?
And it's not just that she abandoned the girl. She strapped her in a stroller and locked the apartment door so she couldn't potentially escape.
Not a recent case, but one I just found out about yesterday.
I assume the perp was tired of taking care of her 7-year-old special needs child, so she strapped the girl into a stroller, put her in a closet, stacked stuff in front of her so she wouldn't be easy to see, and then moved out of her apartment permanently.
Another source said she told the neighbors and her family that she had left the girl with the father's family to avoid suspicion. And that an anonymous man contacted the police when he noticed a terrible odor coming from the apartment. He found her mummified remains. Some sources say he found the door open, while others say it was locked and the man broke in out of concern.
Some people on Reddit said plastic was found in her stomach during the autopsy, implying she ate whatever was within reach, but I can't find outside sources confirming this. Also, from Reddit, some people said the police didn't find the body when they visited the first time, so the girl's uncle placed a purse containing the mother's ID on top of the girl's remains so she would be found and the perp identified. One person said the father wanted her to give the girl p for adoption, but she refused. Again, cannot confirm how true all this is.
Moo said that her life had become "too much" and that's why she abandoned the girl, who suffered from autism, cerebral palsy and seizures. She was just happily carrying on living a normal life someplace else when she was arrested.
I don't doubt for a second her life had become too difficult because that sounds like a very high needs child. But WHY did she just abandon the girl to die? Could she not have surrendered her? Couldn't she have asked other relatives if they'd be willing to take her? Couldn't she have put on a mask and abandoned her in an ER so no one would identify her? She probably could have gone to multiple places for help, either help with caring for the kid or help in putting her up for adoption. I assume the father was not playing an active role in the girl's care.
I'm also going to go out on a limb and assume the girl was probably screaming and crying and none of the neighbors paid her any mind because she probably threw autistic tantrums all the time. Or maybe she was nonverbal and didn't scream/cry?
And it's not just that she abandoned the girl. She strapped her in a stroller and locked the apartment door so she couldn't potentially escape.
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DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announces a conviction by guilty plea in the case against a Decatur woman charged with murdering her special needs daughter by abandoning her in a closet.
On Wednesday, April 23, Alondra Hobbs, 29, entered a non-negotiated guilty plea to charges of Malice Murder, two counts of Felony Murder, and two counts of Cruelty to Children in the First Degree, stemming from the discovery of her seven-year-old daughter Alivia Jordan’s remains on June 25, 2023.
According to the investigation, officers with the DeKalb County Police Department responded to an apartment complex on Misty Waters Drive in unincorporated Decatur after an anonymous 911 caller reported seeing a dead child inside a closet in one of the units. When officers arrived, they found a little girl’s mummified body strapped in a stroller in a bedroom closet.
Through their investigation, police learned Defendant Hobbs had moved out of the apartment months earlier. During a police interview, Defendant Hobbs admitted she put her daughter Alivia in the closet, confined to a stroller before leaving the seven-year-old alone in the apartment. Hobbs said her daughter was alive when she left, but that she abandoned her because her life was “too much.” Defendant Hobbs said Alivia was autistic and medical records showed Alivia suffered from seizures related to cerebral palsy.
Immediately following Hobbs’ guilty plea, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson, who presided over the hearing, sentenced Defendant Hobbs to Life Without the Possibility of Parole.
“Alivia Jordan did not deserve the slow, painful, and lonely death she suffered at the hands of her mother. I extend my deepest condolences to her family and I hope that they take some comfort in knowing Alondra Hobbs is being held accountable for her actions. I want parents to know that abandoning a child is never the right choice and help is available for those who are struggling. We encourage families to visit FindHelpGA.org to connect with local resources.” said DA Boston.
The case, assigned to the Special Victims Unit, was prosecuted by Chief Assistant District Attorney Edward Chase with assistance from Senior Assistant District Attorney Jasmine Reese, District Attorney Investigator Rosalyn Byrd and Supervising Victim Advocate Yuzellie Garcia. DeKalb County Police Department Det. Heavner led the initial investigation.
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Re: Moo leaves her disabled kid to die in a closet August 10, 2026 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 2,622 |
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Cambion
Could she not have surrendered her?
I don't want to sound like I'm defending the mother here because fucking Christ on a cracker, but it is apparently very difficult to surrender a child after a certain age. Remember when there was a city that enacted a vaguely worded safe haven drop off and had to hurry and rewrite the law because people were bringing teenagers and dumping them there? The government will take your kid when they're an easy-to-adopt infant. Once they hit a certain age, too bad if you're poor or become disabled or are just too fucking overwhelmed to raise a child well. You're stuck now, congratulations and good luck shaping a functional member of society.
Frankly, I think if anyone reaches a point where they say "I can't be a good parent anymore, someone else should raise my kid," the child should be removed from that home asap. No good can come of forcing someone to care for a child they've admitted they can't deal with. But I guess it's all tied in with the idea of not giving people, especially women, an "easy out" from parenthood.
I HOPE there's more nuance to it than that...but that's what it looks like to me.
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Re: Moo leaves her disabled kid to die in a closet August 15, 2026 | Registered: 20 years ago Posts: 10,483 |
Ohhh yes, I remember the Nebraska Safe Haven fiasco (2007, I think?). Man parents couldn't dump their brats fast enough - I believe one man drove to Nebraska and left all NINE kids there because his wife had died and he couldn't handle them.
I didn't realize it was harder to give an older child up. I understand probably no one would want to pay money to take an older disabled child, but couldn't it still be taken into foster care? Like they get kids of all ages when they are taken by CPS, but people willingly giving their older kids up is problematic?
I'm sure if she approached any of her or the baby daddy's relatives and said she can't do it anymore (especially if she said she would leave the child to die), they would have taken the child in. She could have abandoned the kid in a public place and worn a mask so she wouldn't be identified. What if she hauled the kid to the ER and said, "I can't handle them anymore, take them?" Would they honestly turn them away knowing the kid's well-being might be at risk if they refuse? I feel like there were options besides abandonment, but they weren't as "easy" as locking the child in a closet and leaving.
I wouldn't judge her for being unable to handle a special needs child (especially on her own), but even if adoption was not feasible, I feel like there were alternatives she could have considered. The punishment for abandonment is almost certainly less severe than that of murder. If she was planning on letting her kid die, couldn't she have done it quickly so the kid didn't suffer? I wonder if she let the kid die slowly of dehydration/malnutrition as "punishment" for being a difficult child.
I didn't realize it was harder to give an older child up. I understand probably no one would want to pay money to take an older disabled child, but couldn't it still be taken into foster care? Like they get kids of all ages when they are taken by CPS, but people willingly giving their older kids up is problematic?
I'm sure if she approached any of her or the baby daddy's relatives and said she can't do it anymore (especially if she said she would leave the child to die), they would have taken the child in. She could have abandoned the kid in a public place and worn a mask so she wouldn't be identified. What if she hauled the kid to the ER and said, "I can't handle them anymore, take them?" Would they honestly turn them away knowing the kid's well-being might be at risk if they refuse? I feel like there were options besides abandonment, but they weren't as "easy" as locking the child in a closet and leaving.
I wouldn't judge her for being unable to handle a special needs child (especially on her own), but even if adoption was not feasible, I feel like there were alternatives she could have considered. The punishment for abandonment is almost certainly less severe than that of murder. If she was planning on letting her kid die, couldn't she have done it quickly so the kid didn't suffer? I wonder if she let the kid die slowly of dehydration/malnutrition as "punishment" for being a difficult child.
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Re: Moo leaves her disabled kid to die in a closet August 17, 2026 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 2,622 |
Naw, what she did was 110% wrong. That's why I said I didn't want to sound like I was defending her. But I don't think it's a simple thing to give up an older child...I feel like that's an easy enough google search, but at this time of night I really don't want to go down that rabbit hole. I start following links and three hours later the sun's coming up and I'm researching what agricultural zones bananas grow in, wondering how I got from point A to point Z. 
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