Deceased/Not Found DC - Kyon Jones, 2 months, Washington, 5 May 2021 *Critical Missing*

[PommyMommy]

MAY 13, 2021
DC Police exploring multiple leads after missing infant’s mother admits unthinkable on video | WTOP
D.C. police sources are exploring multiple leads in the search for a missing 2-month-old baby, missing for a week. They have leads that keep open the possibility he is still alive, despite a recent video confession from his mother.

Sources tell WTOP there is not just one lead to follow in the search for Kyon Jones. However, they confirmed officers are also searching landfills for his body.

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Search for DC baby continues at landfill, police chief hoping for resolution 'very soon' (wjla.com)
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Many on social media have asked if the mother will face charges.

"We're just working through that very carefully with our partners at the U.S. Attorney's office to make sure that we do the things that we need to do as we move to the next step in this," Contee said.

But he says he is hoping the child survived.

"I am hopeful and was hopeful and remain hopeful that perhaps, just perhaps, that this child is somewhere out there," he said.

 

[WanderingJenn]

What has happened to the motherly instincts to love, nurture, and protect their children no matter what it takes?

You're assuming she was loved and nurtured and protected. Sometimes children, that turn into adults and have children, are never taught the value of their own life, let alone another's.
Such a sad cycle of violence.

 

[PommyMommy]

MAY 13, 2021
Search for Missing DC Baby at Virginia Landfill ends unsuccessfully

 

[sds71]

@leslifoster
BREAKING: Sources tell me the mother of 2 month old Kyon Jones was arrested an hour ago. Charged with felony murder. No body has been found yet. @wusa9

Mother of missing DC infant charged with murder | WTOP

 

[Limecat]

@leslifoster
BREAKING: Sources tell me the mother of 2 month old Kyon Jones was arrested an hour ago. Charged with felony murder. No body has been found yet. @wusa9

Mother of missing DC infant charged with murder | WTOP

Please, please find Kyon. Lord, we’ve had so many babies taken, don’t let this one’s final resting place be a landfill.

 

[Shamrock1]

SIDS and falling asleep with my babies and accidentally suffocating them - huge fears of mine as a parent. Obviously the mother didn’t do the right thing after, but this could have been an awful, awful accident IMO.

 

[PommyMommy]

MAY 15, 2021
Court Documents Shed Light on What Happened to Missing 2-Month-Old – NBC4 Washington (nbcwashington.com)
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On May 6, Kyon's father contacted the National Center for Children and Families. A social worker confirmed that Kyon was not removed from the house and reported "concerns of a missing infant and the mother's PCP use" to the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency hotline, court documents state.

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During one interview, she told police that Kyon had died in his sleep. Police said Boggs admitted that she was under the influence of PCP when she rolled on top of the baby and that she had been hallucinating the day he died.

The documents also reveal that Boggs was captured on surveillance video at the apartment complex on Benning Road carrying a car seat, a plastic bag and a cardboard box that appeared "large enough to carry a 2-month-old infant" to the dumpster.

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Boggs was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with murder, D.C. police said. She was released Saturday on no-cost bail.

Boggs is expected to appear in court again on Nov. 19.

 

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[Limecat]

MAY 15, 2021
Court Documents Shed Light on What Happened to Missing 2-Month-Old – NBC4 Washington (nbcwashington.com)
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On May 6, Kyon's father contacted the National Center for Children and Families. A social worker confirmed that Kyon was not removed from the house and reported "concerns of a missing infant and the mother's PCP use" to the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency hotline, court documents state.

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During one interview, she told police that Kyon had died in his sleep. Police said Boggs admitted that she was under the influence of PCP when she rolled on top of the baby and that she had been hallucinating the day he died.

The documents also reveal that Boggs was captured on surveillance video at the apartment complex on Benning Road carrying a car seat, a plastic bag and a cardboard box that appeared "large enough to carry a 2-month-old infant" to the dumpster.

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Boggs was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with murder, D.C. police said. She was released Saturday on no-cost bail.

Boggs is expected to appear in court again on Nov. 19.

So she’s out on bail that she didn’t have to put money up for?! And why would her next court date not be until November? Six months? I’m sure things are backlogged with COVID-19 etc. but still that surprised me.

I suppose unless she has more children she’s probably not a threat to the general public.

moo

 

[PommyMommy]

MAY 16, 2021
DC mother charged with baby's murder released from jail (fox5dc.com)

• Ladonia Boggs was released without bond to D.C.’s Pretrial Services Agency.
• Boggs was directed to immediately verify her address with PSA and stay away from minors under the age of 18 unless there’s adult supervision. GPS monitoring was not a condition of her release.
• At one point, Boggs told detectives she did not want her baby because of what she and the child’s father were going through.
• Court documents say Boggs retracted her statement that she was high on PCP at the time of her arrest.

DC court documents detail death of 2-month-old Kyon Jones | WTOP

1. Boggs walked back her statement that she was under the influence of PCP at the time of Kyon’s death and had been hallucinating, saying the last time she smoked PCP was a day or two before she rolled on top of her son.
2. Court documents state that Boggs called Kyon’s father “on or about” Tuesday, May 4, asking him to come get the baby and to pack “all his stuff.” But the father didn’t go to the residence on Tuesday.
3. The father lived at a different location, but he would stay with Boggs at her apartment on-and-off.
4. On Wednesday, May 5, Boggs contacted the father again, saying the baby would be gone for a long time because D.C. Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA), which she referred to as “CPS” (child protective services) took custody of their child.
5. Kyon’s father received another call from Boggs the same day. This time she said the baby was gone. When the father asked where the baby was, Boggs hung up on him, according to court records.
6. Boggs then called him back and said “CPS” had taken the baby. A child in the background backed up Boggs’ story, the father said.
7. That same night Boggs spent the evening at a hotel with Kyon’s father. Boggs again gave him the false name of who at “CPS” allegedly took the baby. The name was Wanda Davis, a relative of the father’s.
8. While at the hotel, Kyon’s father contacted CFSA asking for information about the baby. The agency said they had not taken custody of the child.
9. On Thursday, May 6, Kyon’s father called the National Center for Children and Families asking a social worker to look into the whereabouts of the child. NCCF would explain that CFSA had not taken custody of his son.
10. The father then called the CFSA hotline with concerns about the missing infant and the mother’s use of PCP.
11. The same day, D.C. police responded to the mother’s home in the 1500 block of Benning Road in Northeast to conduct a welfare check. Boggs told police the baby did not live at that address, adding that no small children lived at the residence. The police then left.
12. Records would show, however, that at least eight people, including five children under the age of 18, lived at the apartment.
13. On Friday, May 7, CFSA visited Boggs at her home. Boggs said Kyon had been removed by “CPS.” CFSA confirmed the baby had not been removed.
14. The CFSA agent also spoke with Boggs’ children who were under the impression “CPS” removed Kyon from the home, as that is what their mother told them.
15. CFSA then called police to report a missing child.
16. The Youth and Family Services division of D.C. police also interviewed Boggs’ children on May 7. One child told police their mother, who appeared to be under the influence of some substance, said “CPS” took the baby.
17. The child said the last time they saw the baby awake was on Tues, May 4.
18. Boggs told police she did not have a phone number for Kyon’s father, but then ultimately gave police his number. She said she hadn’t spoken to him “in a month.”
19. While Kyon’s father told LE he had been concerned about Boggs’ accelerated drug use, admitting he had used PCP with her recently, Boggs told LE she had not been under the influence of “anything” and claimed she had been sober for a year.
20. Boggs then changed her story and told police she had given her baby to a different woman because she couldn’t cope with caring for the baby. Boggs said the woman was her godmother, but told police she had deleted the texts and contact information from the phone, when police asked for it.
21. Police contacted the alleged godmother who said she did not have the baby. Boggs admitted that the woman was actually the paternal grandmother of one of her children and that she knew she didn’t have the child.
22. Then Boggs said she gave the baby to a friend who lived on Good Hope Road. She told police, “I didn’t want my baby because me and his father was going through whatever we was going through.”
23. But detectives said no one with the name Boggs gave them lived on Good Hope Road. When asked by police for the friend’s phone number, Boggs said she didn’t have it.
24. After giving police several stories, Boggs admitted she was in bed with the infant when she woke up and said he was no longer breathing.
25. Boggs then told police she wrapped the baby in a blue blanket and put him the trash dumpster, according to court documents.
26. She then suggested she rolled on top of her baby while sleeping. She also said she gave all the baby’s clothes to a neighbor with a similar aged infant.
27. Inconsistent versions of Boggs’ story continued. “Hours after her interview was completed, she contacted a homicide Detective and reported that she had given Kyon to one of the individuals she has previously named.”
28. On Saturday, May 8, Boggs contacted police and told them that the baby died in her house. According to Boggs, she was sleeping in the same bed with the baby and when she woke up “her stomach was on top of him.” She said she rolled off the baby, but he was no longer breathing.
29. She said she was on PCP at the time and had been hallucinating.
30. After reviewing surveillance footage of Boggs’ apt complex, police said she was seen carrying an infant car seat, a plastic bag and a cardboard box.
31. “The Defendant was captured carrying these items through a door of the premises to the outside. Surveillance footage from the premises also captured the Defendant at the trash dumpster. Moments afterward, the Defendant was seen on surveillance footage reentering the building without any of the above described items.”

 

[moody_chicago]

PCP is one of the scariest drugs out there. Ugh.

 

[Gibbo214]

SIDS and falling asleep with my babies and accidentally suffocating them - huge fears of mine as a parent. Obviously the mother didn’t do the right thing after, but this could have been an awful, awful accident IMO.

No. You do not throw a baby in the trash that has died of natural causes. Just no.

 

[Allynator]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...8b9f74-b723-11eb-a5fe-bb49dc89a248_story.html

 

[PommyMommy]

This is tragic. Who does this?!!! This may not be Kyon since the child was not described as a baby or infant but the remains were found inside a plastic bag ...


MAY 18, 2021
Washington DC dead child Northwest DC Police inside a restroom | wusa9.com
A dead child was found dead in the trash can of a restroom around 8 a.m. on Monday in Northwest D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department in a statement to WUSA9.

Officers were dispatched to investigate after reports came in of an unconscious child. When on the scene, officers found the child's remains inside a plastic bag of a trash can within a unisex bathroom facility.

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[PommyMommy]

MAY 18, 2021
Mother of DC Missing Baby No Longer Faces Murder Charge – NBC4 Washington (nbcwashington.com)
Prosecutors opted not to pursue a murder charge against a D.C. woman whose infant son has been missing since May 5. She allegedly told police the baby died while in bed with her and she disposed of his body.

... She appeared in D.C. Superior Court on Saturday and the U.S. attorney’s office went forward with a charge of tampering with evidence, not the murder charge, law enforcement sources said. It’s possible that additional charges could be added later.

Boggs was released on no-cost bail and told to return to court in November.

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[PommyMommy]

MAY 18, 2021
Mother of missing DC infant no longer faces murder charge | WTOP
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The day before investigators believe that Kyon Jones died, mother Ladonia Boggs had a heated text exchange with the baby’s father about how she regretted having a child with him and asked him to take the boy.

That is according to charging documents, which outline how the 38-year-old — who has a history of drug use — lied to the baby’s father, her other children, child protective services and police about her son’s whereabouts. His body has not been found.

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Surveillance from May 5 shows Boggs carrying a car seat outside toward the dumpster and then carrying a “plastic bag filled with unknown items in one hand and dragging a cardboard box in the other hand. The cardboard box appears to contain something like a white cloth or blanket and appears large enough to carry a 2-month-old infant,” the documents said.

One of Boggs’ other children — who is no longer in her care, according to sources close to the investigation — told investigators they observed that Boggs was under the influence of a drug at the time of Kyon’s death.

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Prosecutors suggest in the charging documents that the child could have died unintentionally and amended the charges against Boggs by dropping felony murder and charging her with tampering with physical evidence.

 

[rainynights]

This is tragic. Who does this?!!! This may not be Kyon since the child was not described as a baby or infant but the remains were found inside a plastic bag ...


MAY 18, 2021
Washington DC dead child Northwest DC Police inside a restroom | wusa9.com
A dead child was found dead in the trash can of a restroom around 8 a.m. on Monday in Northwest D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department in a statement to WUSA9.

Officers were dispatched to investigate after reports came in of an unconscious child. When on the scene, officers found the child's remains inside a plastic bag of a trash can within a unisex bathroom facility.

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So awful and heinous.

RIP baby Kyon, and also that poor child, whomever he/she may be.

 

[Simply Southern]

MAY 18, 2021
Mother of missing DC infant no longer faces murder charge | WTOP
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The day before investigators believe that Kyon Jones died, mother Ladonia Boggs had a heated text exchange with the baby’s father about how she regretted having a child with him and asked him to take the boy.

That is according to charging documents, which outline how the 38-year-old — who has a history of drug use — lied to the baby’s father, her other children, child protective services and police about her son’s whereabouts. His body has not been found.

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Surveillance from May 5 shows Boggs carrying a car seat outside toward the dumpster and then carrying a “plastic bag filled with unknown items in one hand and dragging a cardboard box in the other hand. The cardboard box appears to contain something like a white cloth or blanket and appears large enough to carry a 2-month-old infant,” the documents said.

One of Boggs’ other children — who is no longer in her care, according to sources close to the investigation — told investigators they observed that Boggs was under the influence of a drug at the time of Kyon’s death.

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Prosecutors suggest in the charging documents that the child could have died unintentionally and amended the charges against Boggs by dropping felony murder and charging her with tampering with physical evidence.

Unbelievable!!!
Moo

 

[PommyMommy]

This is tragic. Who does this?!!! This may not be Kyon since the child was not described as a baby or infant but the remains were found inside a plastic bag ...


MAY 18, 2021
Washington DC dead child Northwest DC Police inside a restroom | wusa9.com
A dead child was found dead in the trash can of a restroom around 8 a.m. on Monday in Northwest D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department in a statement to WUSA9.

Officers were dispatched to investigate after reports came in of an unconscious child. When on the scene, officers found the child's remains inside a plastic bag of a trash can within a unisex bathroom facility.

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Update...not Kyon...still horrifying. How do people live with themselves after doing something like this?

Baby Found Dead Inside Plastic Bag In DC Restroom's Trash Can (ibtimes.com)
An investigation found that the infant, which still had its umbilical cord intact, had been sitting there for more than 24 hours as the body was starting to decompose.

A review of surveillance footage in the area showed that a person authorities believed was a man left the box in the area on April 27.

 

[Tiffany Guest]

My heart breaks for this poor baby! Just finding this thread now.

I have so many questions like most of you.

I hope some answers come up soon but the biggest is how does this mother’s alleged drug use go unnoticed with family services or at least not an ongoing file?
In Canada one allegation to Child and Family Services and an investigation is opened immediately it seems.