The lawyer says the man hindered the police, but no child killed

Baton Rouge's lawyer of a man who was accused of evidence of the murder and obstacle of evidence after a toddler had not killed a jury of Baton Rouge of a toddler on Thursday, but tried to learn what happened.

Phillip Gardner was accused after Nevaeh Allen's body was found in a flat grave in Mississippi. The prosecutors say that the mother had beaten the mother and that Gardner put the girl in a suitcase – still alive – and drove to a forest area to hide the crime.

Both sides presented opening statements on Monday in Gardner's process. The child's mother, Lanaya Cardwell, will go to court on November 3; Both not guilty in 2022.

According to the government, Cardwell beat the child because she played with her mother's last contact lenses. The blow hit the child into a vanity cabinet where the girl hit her head. After Gardner had not awakened the child from sleep, he went to prison and decided to hide the body, the prosecutors said on Thursday.

However, Gardner's lawyer said her client was a “hardworking family man” and guilty, not to guilty anything other than the disability of the judiciary.

Allen was reported as missing in September 2021 before her body was found in the Logown area of ​​Hancock County, Mississippi.

After the blow, said Gardner, Nevaeh had a blue spot on his forehead, according to the police documents. When he returned from a supply, Nevaeh refused to eat due to stomach pain and was no longer reacted, he told the police, according to an affidavit.

Ultimately, he drove Nevaehs and two other children under Mississippi, where he buried Nevaeh in the forest and threw her clothes into a trash can, said officials.

At first Gardner had said he fell asleep and woke up to find the child missing. He later said that he had no longer reacted the girl and buried the girl in Mississippi. The police say he left his cell phone at home so that he would not be persecuted.