The coroner's bureau confirmed Tuesday that the body found inside a Merced home last week is of 8-year-old Sophia Mason.
Mason was reported missing out of Hayward. The girl's family said the girl lived at several locations around California."We are collectively as a family devastated, sad and, I think, numb and in a state of disbelief," said Melissa Harris, a cousin of the girl.
The family believes Johnson, who is mentally ill, was involved in prostitution and moved from hotel to hotel. They say she would sometimes leave her daughter with her mother and disappear for months. "She seemed very, very tired, almost drowsy, as if she were drugged," Harris said. "She wasn't able to string together her sentences appropriately, and that raised red flags for my aunt."
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