Indiana babysitter accused of killing, cutting up 9-year-old girl

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Indiana babysitter accused of killing, cutting up 9-year-old girl

2011-12-29 06:32:53 GMT+7 (ICT)

FORT WAYNE, INDIANA (BNO NEWS) -- A 39-year-old babysitter who is accused of killing and then dismembering a young girl is scheduled to appear in a court in Indiana on Friday, prosecutors said on Wednesday. He has been charged with murder.

Michael Len Plumadore had been babysitting 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon and her two sisters for about a week because their mother was ill. He told police he last saw the girl on Friday morning but did not report her missing until Friday evening because he thought she had gone home to her mother.

According to court documents released on Tuesday, Plumadore initially told police that he last saw Aliahna at around 6 a.m. on Friday when she was sleeping in a chair in the living room of his trailer. "The defendant stated that at about 10:05 a.m., Aliahna's sisters told him that Aliahna had left his home with her mother," the documents said. "The defendant stated he did not become aware that Aliahna was not with her mother until 8:00 p.m."

But during a subsequent interview on Monday, Plumadore 'freely admitted' to killing Aliahna by striking her in the head multiple times with a brick while she was standing on the front steps of his residence on early Thursday morning. "The defendant further stated he carried Aliahna's body into the residence and placed her body inside multiple trash bags and then placed Aliahna's body in the freezer of his residence," according to court documents.

The documents add: "The defendant stated [that] in the late evening hours of Thursday and the early morning hours of [Friday] he dismembered Aliahna's body by cutting it up with a hack saw. The defendant stated he then placed small pieces of Aliahna's body in freezer bags and disposed of them in a dumpster located at a nearby business."

Plumadore told investigators that Aliahna's head, feet and hands were still in his freezer. When police carried out a search warrant later that day, officers found what they believed to be human body parts, including a human head, in Plumadore's freezer.

Plumadore is scheduled to appear in court on Friday. He had been living with Aliahna's grandfather, a sex offender with convictions for child molestation in 2006, until earlier this month when he died.

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