Mom, dad plead guilty in suitcase baby death
THE parents who were arrested and charged after the decomposing body of their two year old son was found in a suitcase at their Kingston home in January have pleaded guilty, and will be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on June 28.
The sentencing date was scheduled in court last week after Alphanso and Stephanie Warren of Chisholm Avenue both pleaded guilty to concealment of death and failure to bury the body of a child during a case management hearing.
The Warrens, who are unable to take up their $300,000 bail, were then remanded into custody by Magistrate Maxine Ellis.
The two were arrested and charged in January after concerned neighbours stormed their home and found the child’s body in a suitcase. The neighbours became suspicious after not seeing the toddler around for a while.
Stephanie is being represented by Attorneys CJ Mitchell and Courtney Foster, while her husband is being represented by Chris Tavares-Finson.
The couple had left Canada in 2009 after allegedly abandoning their baby daughter on a frigid stairwell in Toronto in January 2008.
The child, who was said to be eight months old at the time, was found face down and bleeding.
Both have been living in Kingston since 2009 — shortly after they were found guilty in the abandonment of the child, who became known as Baby Angelica.