LAS VEGAS (AP) - Authorities in Las Vegas say a 26-year-old woman who is accused of killing her two young daughters told police she didn’t have children, didn’t recognize their father and spoke about selling the girls’ body parts.
A police report said Amanda Sharp-Jefferson told the father, Jaykwon Singleton, that the babies’ organs would be worth a lot of money.
Sharp-Jefferson was arrested Friday and held without bail at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas pending a bail hearing Thursday with an appointed attorney.
A public defender who represented Sharp-Jefferson at her initial arraignment on Saturday said Wednesday she did not immediately know who was now handling Sharp-Jefferson’s defense on two murder charges.
The causes of death for 1-year-old Rose Singleton and 2-month-old Lily Singleton were not immediately made public. The Clark County coroner’s office was closed Wednesday for the Veterans Day holiday.
Singleton told police he and Sharp-Jefferson had been together since 2018 and that she recently started talking about an “altar spirit world” and accusing him of spending time with his “spirit wife.”
Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday that was too early in the investigation to determine if Sharp-Jefferson had a mental illness, but that he would not rule it out.
Singleton spent a night at his grandmother’s house and returned to the family apartment Friday to find the girls’ bodies in a bassinet, KVVU-TV reported, citing a police report.
Sharp-Jefferson told investigators she did not have children, did not know Singleton and that someone must have entered her apartment to “set her up for the death of the two children, who were not hers,” according to the police report.
When asked about comments about the value of the children’s body parts, Sharp-Jefferson told police she “saw a movie where people made money on body parts after a person died,” the report said.
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