FACEBOOK MESSAGE LED TO ARRESTS IN CHILD`S DEATH
Baku, July 9 (AZERTAC). A Facebook message led investigators to a couple who had custody of a girl whose body was found in a vacant Colorado home, authorities said Thursday.
Hanif Sims and his girlfriend, Monique Lynch, both 29, were arrested Wednesday in Henderson, Nev. El Paso County investigators had been looking for the couple since the body of 9-year-old Genesis Sims was found May 14 in the crawl space of a town home in Monument, about 50 miles south of Denver.
The couple moved out of the home early last year. Investigators believed that Sims and Lynch lived in a Los Angeles homeless shelter from March until December 2009.
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said detectives tracked a message the couple wrote to a Colorado Springs TV station back to a motel. He said the two were sleeping when Henderson police arrived at the motel.
An arrest warrant was issued for Sims in June for suspected second-degree assault and misdemeanor child abuse. Deputy Teresa Murphy said a warrant was being prepared for Lynch for suspected child abuse resulting in death.
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