Particle.news
Download on the App Store
4 ARTICLES
·
4w ago

Cleveland Mother Pleads Not Guilty in Suitcase Deaths of Two Daughters

Investigators have not yet determined the cause or timing of death.

Aliyah Henderson, the 28-year-old mother accused of aggravated murder after the bodies of two young girls were found in suitcases in Cleveland, pleaded not guilty during her arraignment hearing Thursday morning.
Image

Overview

  • Henderson pleaded not guilty Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and is set for a pretrial hearing on April 7.
  • The judge kept her bond at $2 million after a prosecutor’s victim advocate said the girls’ fathers asked for the highest bond.
  • Prosecutors charged her with aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping, child endangering, tampering with evidence, and gross abuse of a corpse.
  • The girls — 10-year-old Amor Wilson and 8-year-old Mila Chatman — were found March 2 in partially buried suitcases at Saranac Playground after a dog walker discovered one.
  • The medical examiner has preliminarily ruled both deaths homicides, the remains were decomposed and identified by DNA, and another child from the home is now in county care.