Court records: One-year-old Kahleb Rowan Collins was beaten, hung by a rope before death
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Court records reveal disturbing details about the death of 1-year-old Kahleb Rowan Collins, whose mother now faces three charges stemming from her son's passing.
On Tuesday, the Fayette County Sheriff's Office announced aggravated child abuse, criminally negligent homicide, corpse abuse and domestic violence charges against Wendy Pamela Jean Bailey.
Although his body has not been recovered, investigators believe that Kahleb has been dead for several months. He was last seen in September. Teams are still searching for his remains.
In the corpse abuse complaint, prosecutors claim that Bailey stated that "upon the death of Kahleb Rowan Collins his body was placed into a bag and stored in an outside storage building for a brief period prior to disposal at an unknown location."
More graphic details were included in the domestic violence filing.
"After being notified by Steven Collins (Kahleb's father) via message that he was going to kill Kahleb Collins followed by photographs of Kahleb Collins hanging aloft with a rope with blood present on his body and a photo of Kahleb Collins lying supine on the floor with extreme bruising present on his body," the complaint said.
The filing shows quotes from additional messages with original grammar from Steven Collins to Bailey "that stated 'he want move' 'Im so sorry.' Steven then sent 'he moving.' Wendy Bailey acknowledged the photograph and replied 'he just looks wore out and tired and hurt hopefully that's all.'"
As for the aggravated child abuse, prosecutors argued that Bailey admitted to "failing to intervene on more than two occasions that Khaleb Rowan Collins was physically abused by tortorous means such as being bound with rope, physically assaulted, and being bound by a rope from a loft with blood and bruising present."
The criminally negligent homicide charge is related to the death of 2-year-old Ryleigh Collins, Kahleb's sister. Officials said she was unrestrained in the vehicle driven by Steven Bradley Collins when it crashed on Dec. 8. in the Glen Allen community. Steven Collins, 40, was also killed in that crash. Wendy Bailey was critically injured.
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According to the crash report, Steven was driving aggressively at 92 mph on the wet street.
The sheriff's office said law enforcement was told a day later that the man and woman in the crash "had another child" who was unaccounted for, according to a news release.
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On Dec. 11, John Elton Bailey, Kahleb's custodian, was taken into custody for failing to report a missing child. Court documents show there were physical injuries to the child, and he was removed from the home and taken to an unknown location, but no report was made by anyone in the home.
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Wendy Bailey is in the Fayette County Jail awaiting a bond hearing. The state intends to request that bond in the cases be denied pursuant to Anaih鈥檚 Law.
More charges against Bailey are possible, according to the sheriff's office. Anyone with information is asked to contact them at 205-932-3205, the State Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-392-8011, or the District Attorney's Office at 205-367-9915.
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