Identified! IN - Gary, BlkFem 176UFIN, teens-20s, in garage, Feb'07 - Erika Hill

[Jake479]

RIP Erika Antoinette Hill

 

[annemc2]

I see RIP on a lot of threads but for Erika, she is truly resting in *peace*.

That poor, poor child. My heart aches for her and for the innocent victims that were subjected to abuse by that horrible woman. It's absolutely terrifying that she was working with children in the schools.

RIP Erika.
:candle:

 

[WyomingSkyAngel]

I felt emotionally sickened & physically sick after reading what this poor child was put through. On top of that from a relative. Ugh.

I hope her killer is treated like the scum she is in prison....

 

[rosie_lee]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...im-suffered-abuse-st-0920-20150918-story.html

She was Jane Doe for eight years.

Found dead, partially clothed and burned, with a rag shoved in her mouth, Jane Doe was discovered Feb. 26, 2007, in a cinder block garage near 2nd Avenue and Polk Street in Gary.


Gary police, along with past and present Lake County coroners scoured missing persons lists, commissioned a drawing of what the woman might have looked like and waited for a call from a worried family member.

The call came last month, when Erika Hill's cousin contacted Gary police Detective Lorenzo Davis with a story of how her mother beat the girl almost daily for years, he said. Then, when Erika died, her adopted mother enlisted her biological children, including the caller, to help dispose of the body, police said.

Erika was never reported missing, Davis said. Her cousin, haunted by her memories, found a drawing created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and believed the girl found in Gary was Erika.

Taylin Hill, 50, the caller's mother, was charged last week in Wisconsin with first degree reckless homicide and six additional abuse charges. When police in Fitchburg, Wis., interviewed her, she had custody of a granddaughter, who had suspicious marks on her, court records state. Until her arrest, Hill, who used other names as an adult, was an aid in the special education department at Madison Metropolitan Schools.

More at link...

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What an absolutely heartbreaking story! Thank gosh they were able to find her before she inflicted any more injuries on her granddaughter like she did Erika.

 

[fizzypop]

Jeez. She had another kid in her custody with marks on her and was an aide at a school?

So glad the cousin spoke up against her mother. I'm sure that took a lot of courage.

 

[KaylaraOwl]

This uid is still showing up in namus, so I sent the information in to Amy Hobbs about her being id's as Erika.

 

[Forager]

I tried to go back to the start of the thread to orient myself, but found that the thread's first post was basically just a link to a news story that has since been deleted from the newspaper's website. This is not uncommon.

I'd like to urge all sleuthers to help us create enduring records by posting the useful material from news articles directly to the thread. (But still provide the links too!). Most news articles boil down to relatively few lines of real information however, and identifying them helps focus other sleuthers. You want to be summarizing, condensing, and giving credit to the original author of course - we don't want to plagerizing or pirating. I have yet, however, to hear of anyone accusing a Websleuther of plagerizing. Reporters like to be quoted and linked.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Madison woman pleads guilty to causing the death of her adopted daughter - July 2016

A Madison woman who was charged in September with first-degree reckless homicide for the death of her adopted daughter in 2007 pleaded guilty last week to reduced charges.

Taylin M. Hill, 51, was convicted on Wednesday of child neglect causing death, failure to prevent mental harm to a child and child abuse in the death of 15-year-old Erika Antoinette Hill.

20-year prison sentence for woman whose adopted daughter died in 2007 - November 2016

The adoptive mother of a 15-year-old girl whose burned and disfigured body was found in 2007 in a garage in Gary, Indiana, and remained unidentified until last year, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.

Judge Stephen Ehlke gave her 15 years in prison for the child neglect conviction — the maximum sentence, he said, because of the seriousness of the facts — four years in prison for mental harm and one year for child abuse. She will spend 15 years on extended supervision after she is released from prison.

In court, Taylin Hill apologized for what happened to Erika.

“I would like to say that I am sorry for Erika’s loss of life,” Hill began. “I am heartbroken about what I did and did not do to help you. I should have sought help for you. I will forever be heartbroken about Erika.”

 

[cheemsg]

Erika Hill, 1992-2007. Her JD recon is the only photo left of her. This article goes more into her life, I hope she isn't forgotten.

Brother of Teen Slain, Stashed in Garage Says Allegedly Abusive Aunt was a 'Tormented Soul'