Police have arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found last March inside a central California home after the child was reported missing.
1 / 2This undated photo provided by the Merced Police Department shows suspect Dhante Jackson, of Merced, Calif. Police have arrested Jackson, a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found last March inside a central California home after the child was reported missing, authorities said. After a months-long manhunt, Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday, Sept.
Jackson was in a relationship with the young victim's mother, 30-year-old Samantha Johnson, who was arrested in March and has pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse, prosecutors said. Sophia was reported missing by relatives in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward. They told police they had not had contact with the girl since December, and that she was known to stay at different locations between Hayward and Southern California.
Merced police found Sophia’s body in a bathtub, inside a locked bathroom, according to court documents.Johnson told a Merced police detective that Jackson, her boyfriend, had kept Sophia in a shed and that the child was subjected to physical and sexual abuse by Jackson.
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