Manassas woman pleads guilty in death of daughter

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MANASSAS — A Manassas woman pleaded guilty today to killing her 13-year-old adopted daughter, whose body was found in a creek earlier this year.


Alfreedia Gregg-Glover stood before Judge Craig D. Johnston in Prince William County Circuit Court pleaded guilty to felony murder, felony child abuse and filing a false police report.

Police say Gregg-Glover lied when she told them her daughter Alexis “Lexie” Agyepong-Glover had run away in January. A massive search ensued, and two days later the girl’s body was found in a Woodbridge creek.


After the hearing, county Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert said there were many missteps, with authorities and social service workers failing to take immediate action and putting too much trust in the mother’s statements.


“It’s a true horror story what happened to Alexis,” he said. “I hope it will never happen again.”

Police said Gregg-Glover adopted the girl in December 2003. In the following years, officials received several neglect and abuse reports involving Agyepong-Glover, including one in which school bus employees said the girl came to the bus stop last fall dressed in nothing but a diaper.


Prosecutors said Agyepong-Glover had special needs and health problems. The girl began wearing a locator bracelet in March 2008 because she was known to run away from home. Ebert said “the question was why” she was running away. Agyepong-Glover also was hospitalized for long periods between 2005 and 2007.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/manassas_woman_pleads_guilty_in_death_of_daughter/278314/

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1. A complete and total shame. Everyone should be ashamed

even the bus driver who should have done more than just report the parent. Somebody should have actually intervened, not let the girl go back to the home. Somebody should have raised hell!