The child supposedly died inside a hotel room after a fatal beating by her mom’s boyfriend.
What We Know:
- A Texas woman supposedly pretended her 2-year-old daughter was missing, when in reality, she and her boyfriend killed the toddler days before informing authorities of her disappearance.
- According to a report from PEOPLE, Tiaundra Christon sent police on a massive search-and-rescue for her child, Hazana Anderson. However, College Station police officers soon found the horrible truth. The girl’s body was dropped in a lake, covered in a bag, tied up with rope, and secured by a heavy rock to help sink it to the bottom of the lake.
- The killing happened at the couple’s Downtowner Inn hotel room in Houston. Hewett left with Anderson to get food and then returned 30 minutes later with the child crying. That’s when the couple decided to beat Anderson brutally, resulting in her death.
- The couple later admitted to beating Anderson with a belt until she fell into unconsciousness and ultimately died. They tried to resuscitate her via a cold bath, and that’s when Christon alleges she found her child had been sexually abused, as reported by a probable cause affidavit.
- Christon and Hewett used a hairdryer to warm up Anderson’s “cold” body, but she was already dead, so they dropped her in a local lake. A dive team retrieved her body. The coroner could not determine the reason or time of the child’s death.
- Christon created a plan with her boyfriend Kenny Hewett to tell police that her child went missing during an outing from Houston to a Walmart in College Station on October 28, 2018.
- The store’s surveillance video revealed the mother pushing a stroller with what appeared to be Anderson inside it. Sadly, however, it was a life-size doll dressed in a similar outfit to what the child was wearing when Christon reported that she was missing. During the police search for Anderson, they discovered the doll in a garbage can across the street from where Christon parked her car. The doll was abandoned.
Christon was found guilty last Friday and convicted to 20 years in prison for tampering with a human corpse. Hewett was also convicted to 20 years in 2019 on similar charges.
