Video shows her and her 17-year-old son, Gavin, pulling up outside Quawan’s father’s house on October 30, and the three of them driving away. Ron Haley, the family’s attorney, told a local ABC affiliate that they don’t know the “exact role played” in the teen’s disappearance. A preliminary autopsy pointed to muddy water in Quawan’s lungs as an indication that he had “likely” drowned, and attributed his wounds to “aquatic animal activity.” But the family suspects his death may have been racially motivated, and that law enforcement would’ve taken their claims more seriously - notifying the media and sending an Amber Alert, which police allegedly didn’t do - if Quawan hadn’t been Black. Parish police found his body in a drainage ditch days later, on November 3.Īccording to the teen’s family, his face appeared horribly mangled in postmortem photos - “so disfigured that his teeth visible outside of his mouth,” to quote the Washington Post. Quawan disappeared on October 30, and his parents believe that authorities were too slow to act when they reported their son missing. Irvin,” and that he spoke with Quawan’s parents “immediately” afterward. Romero said he was “confident” that his office “put together an extremely strong case against Mrs. In a statement announcing the arrest, Sheriff Thomas S. She was among the last people to see Quawan alive. On Tuesday, the local sheriff’s office reportedly booked Janet Irvin for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and failure to report a missing child. Police in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish made an arrest in connection with the death of Quawan Charles, the 15-year-old whose body was found in a sugarcane field in November. Photo: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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