Majelic’s mother, Malikah Bennett has been charged with child abuse and first-degree murder. Bennett is being held without bond, and the mother hasn’t pleaded to her alleged crimes. Records show that the mother isn’t represented by an attorney.

In August 2020, 4-year-old Majelic spoiled her clothes, which may have made her mother upset. Majelic’s 13-year-old sister told the police, Bennett made Majelic stand in the laundry room by herself as a punishment.

Without having any food, sleep, and told not to sit down or leave the room, Majelic reportedly collapsed on the floor. Bennett attempted to perform CPR on her, but Majelic had died. Majelic’s body was found cut into pieces and placed into two trash bags. Her remains were stored away inside an SUV for some days and in the backyard where Bennett lived.

“I’ve worked homicide most of the last 10 years and I can tell you this case is deeply disturbing,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Lt. Bryan Crum said in a press conference earlier this year, PEOPLE reported. “It’s disturbing to everyone who’s worked it. Crime scene investigators, detectives, everyone involved in this case—many of us are parents, and it’s very difficult to understand how someone could do this to their child, kill their child and bury them and move on with their life as if nothing happened.”

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