COLLEGE STATION, Texas — ***WARNING: The details of this story are graphic and are not suitable for all viewers***
The mother of a 2-year-old Hazana Anderson, who was reported missing Sunday, admitted to keeping a corpse in her car for three days, according to probable cause statements obtained by KAGS.
Tiaundra Christon and her boyfriend, Kenny D'Shawn Hewett, are both charged with tampering with physical evidence with the intent to impair a human corpse.
In statements from the Department of Public Safety, Christon told detectives she and Hewett were in a hotel in Houston from Oct. 17 through Oct. 20. On Oct. 19, Christon said Hewett left the hotel with a child to get food. When he returned with the child 30 minutes later, the child was crying and Hewett began beating her with a belt. Hewett also told Christon to hit the child with the belt, but said she wasn't hitting the child hard enough, so he began beating the child again, according to the affidavit.
Christon said the child was going in and out of consciousness, so she and Hewett put her in the bathtub to attempt to revive her, the affidavit said. As Christon was removing the child from the tub, she said she noticed signs of sexual assault on the child. Christon said that night the child died, according to the affidavit.
Christon told police the child was cold to the touch, so she and Hewett tried to use a hair dryer to warm her up, and while doing so the hair dryer began burning the child's skin, according to the documents.
She also said she kept the corpse in the back seat of her car for three days, inside a plastic trash bag. According to the document, Christon said that on Oct. 23, she and Hewett wrapped the bag with the body inside with rope, and tied a heavy rock to it. They then tossed the body into a body of water near Moses Bayou and SH 146 in Galveston County, the affidavit said.
Christon reported Anderson missing in College Station on Oct. 28. Police arrested her Monday morning for filing a false police report and child endangerment.
A child's body was found by investigators in that area Wednesday night, but the body has not been positively identified.
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