After a monthslong manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found last March inside a Central California home, authorities said.
"In my 20 years of law enforcement, this case is the most disturbing and horrific that I've seen," a police lieutenant said.After a months-long manhunt, Dhante Jackson has been arrested on charges of abusing and killing 8-year-old Sophia Mason in Merced.After a monthslong manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found last March inside a Central California home, authorities said Sunday.
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. The missing person report led Hayward police to arrest Johnson on a warrant stemming from a case of child abuse in Alameda County last year, police said.
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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