A 22-year-old mother in Georgia has been indicted on a spate of felony charges for allegedly killing her 20-month-old son, whose body was recovered in a landfill last month.
A grand jury in Chatham County on Wednesday returned a true bill indicting Leilani Maree Simon on 19 charges, including two counts of felony murder and one count each of malice murder and concealing the death of another in connection with the death of young Quinton Simon, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
Simon is also facing 14 counts of making a false statement and one count of false report of a crime.
According to a copy of the eight-page indictment obtained by Law&Crime, prosecutors are alleging that Simon on Oct. 5, 2022 intentionally killed her son with an unknown object “that when used offensively against a person did result in serious bodily injury,” and “cause Quinton’s death.”
The felony murder charges stem from accusations that Simon killed Quinton while also committing felonious acts of aggravated assault and first-degree cruelty to a child by “maliciously” causing Quinton “cruel and excessive physical pain” in a manner that was unknown to the grand jury at the time of the indictment.
Simon then unlawfully concealed Quinton’s death by “discarding him in a dumpster at Azalea Mobile Home Plaza” in order to “hinder the discovery of whether Quinton was unlawfully killed,” the document states.
The false report of a crime charge alleges that Simon on Oct. 5 did “willfully and...
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