Cleveland Mother Pleads Not Guilty After Bodies Of 2 Young Daughters Found In Suitcases At Playground

A Cleveland mother charged successful nan deaths of her 2 young daughters aft their bodies were recovered buried successful suitcases successful shallow graves astatine a playground pleaded not blameworthy Thursday.

Aliyah Henderson, dressed successful bluish and handcuffed down her back, made a little video quality earlier a judge successful Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. She remained silent arsenic nan plea was read.

A victim’s advocator for nan prosecutor’s agency told nan judge that nan fathers of nan 2 girls were requesting nan “highest enslaved possible” for Henderson because she “has a history of staying hidden and moving from spot to spot passim nan long of nan children’s lives.”

The judge accepted Henderson’s not blameworthy plea and continued her enslaved of $2 million.

The bodies of 8-year-old Mila Chatman and her half-sibling, 10-year-old Amor Wilson, were discovered astatine Saranac Playground connected March 2 aft a man stepping his canine recovered a partially buried suitcase. The decomposed bodies had been stuffed wrong suitcases and buried successful shallow graves.

“It was for illustration a heap of dirt, and she stopped to sniff … and she was taking excessively long,” nan man, Phillip Donaldson, told WEWS-TV. “So I went backmost and looked, and it was a suitcase that was half-buried, and I pulled it up and looked successful it, and it was a head. Somebody’s caput successful it.”

Mourners guidelines earlier a memorial to nan slain girls successful Cleveland connected March 5.Sue Ogrocki / AP

Henderson, 28, who lives adjacent nan playground, was arrested astatine her location connected March 4. Court records show that she's been charged pinch aggravated murder, kidnapping, murder, endangering children, and offenses against a quality corpse.

Another kid who lived pinch her was removed from nan location and is successful nan attraction of nan Department of Children and Family Services.

A memorial tract for nan girls has now been group up astatine nan playground. A funeral, pinch hundreds successful attendance, was held connected Wednesday astatine Mount Sinai Friendship United, WOIO reported.

Deshaun Chatman, who said he was Mila’s father, told section reporters that Henderson had been “ducking” him and that he had not had interaction pinch his girl for respective years. He said he had contacted DCFS aggregate times astir getting custody.

Henderson is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected April 7 for a pretrial hearing.