Overview
- Investigators concluded evidence showed Javeayah had been dead for weeks before her June 30 report, and the investigation shifted from a rescue to a homicide probe.
- Both parents, 23-year-old Johmarea Harris and 22-year-old Michilae Herring, were arrested on homicide-by-child-abuse charges and court filings say their statements supported arrest warrants.
- Authorities recovered scant human remains from Cedar Creek Reservoir that Thursday were forensically linked to the biological child of the two people arrested.
- Sheriff Marty Sawyer said investigators allege corrosive chemicals and tools were used to accelerate destruction of the body and prosecutors added a charge of destruction and desecration of human remains.
- A multi-agency recovery and evidence operation continues with officials limiting public disclosures to protect the case, community members holding vigils, and the Second Judicial Circuit solicitor expected to handle prosecution.