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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c9d8472434ea6a502f4e2bcd7cafb7f" style="color:#1f1515;font-size:14px"><strong>&#8216;In under 12 hours, the investigation moved from uncertainty to an arrest&#8217; cops said after a baby girl was found dead in a hearse parked at a funeral home e in Gadsden, Alabama over the weekend</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-280a79bf22992363c5336fc419a1a2bd" style="color:#1f1515;font-size:14px"><strong> One-year-old</strong> <strong>Blessence Pearl was discovered by an employee of West Gadsden Funeral Home in Alabama when he opened a hearse about 11.45am on Saturday</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-522f9a362d97683180486707d3f12053" style="color:#1f1515;font-size:14px"><strong>Child&#8217;s mother Terica Pearl, 29, was arrested and charged with Capital Murder that evening and booked into the Etowah County Jail without bond at 1.48am</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7dc8e66239a6b4e436c285ea0d193367" style="color:#1f1515;font-size:14px"><strong>Blessence&#8217;s death is being investigated as a homicide &#8216;until we can prove otherwise&#8217; &#8211; police</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5dfeadfb2fbe00c3c399561849fb4eca" style="color:#1f1515;font-size:14px"><strong>At the age of 15 in Feb 2011, Pearl lost her four-week-old daughter Janaiha in a house fire </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e27cfba03b28555af108623312558aa" style="color:#1f1515;font-size:14px"><strong>The blaze reportedly began in the room where the infant slept and spread throughout the home</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The body of one-year-old Blessence Pearl was discovered by an employee of West Gadsden Funeral Home in Alabama when he opened a hearse on Saturday. Her 29-year-old mom has been charged with murder &#8211; Docs say she was strangled with a &#8216;thick robe string&#8217;</strong></p>



<p>Withing hours of the finding the body of a toddler in the back of a hearse on Saturday August 9, authorities in Alabama have charged her mother with murder.<br>One-year-old Blessence Pearl was discovered by an employee of West Gadsden Funeral Home in Alabama when he opened the hearse about 11.45am on Saturday.<br>The little girl&#8217;s mother Terica Pearl, 29, was arrested that evening and booked into the Etowah County Jail without bond at 1.48am, charged with murder.<br>At the onset of investigation Gadsden Police Lieutenant Dusty Ford said, the death of Blessence was being investigated as a homicide &#8216;until we can prove otherwise&#8217;.<br>&#8216;In under 12 hours, the investigation moved from uncertainty to an arrest,&#8217; he said. <br>Documents emerging Monday show the mother is accused of intentionally causing the death of her daughter by strangulation with a &#8220;thick robe string.&#8221;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Terica Pearl, 29, was arrested on Saturday evening, hours after her toddler was found dead in the back of hearse. She&#8217;s <strong>charged with Capital Murd</strong>er and booked into the Etowah County Jail without bond</strong></p>



<p>Cause of death for the little girl and her body ended up in the hearse is unclear, but funeral director Dantez Robinson said it was usually left unlocked.<br>The employee who made the discovery, Carlos Blount, speaking at a vigil for Blessence on Sunday, explained how he found the body: &#8216;I got four girls of my own and I know how it feels. I couldn&#8217;t even work yesterday, because that could have been one of mine, or anybody else&#8217;s kids,&#8217; he said.<br>Other members of Blessence&#8217;s family mourned her at the vigil, but did not speak publicly.<br>Robinson, who is also the Etowah County chief deputy coroner, explained the series of events that led to the body&#8217;s discovery.<br>In a video posted on his social media pages Robinson explained that he returned from the scene of a death about 8pm on Friday and left the hearse unlocked.<br>&#8216;We&#8217;ve never had a problem with people going into our cars at the office. I laid the keys down where the keys go and out the door I went,&#8217; he said.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>An employee at at West Gadsden Funeral Home in Gadsden, Alabama, found the toddler dead in the back of this hearse on Saturday August 9</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>How Blessence died and how she ended up in the hearse is unclear. The funeral parlor management said &#8216;It&#8217;s pathetic. Whoever done this, whoever is behind it, turn yourselves in… We want justice for this baby. Babies do not ask to be here</strong></p>



<p>Blount said he arrived about 11.30am and noticed what he thought was a doll in the back of the hearse as he was about to move it into the shed.<br>When he opened the hearse and took a closer look, he discovered to his horror that it was the toddler&#8217;s body.<br>&#8216;To see that and to see my employee in disbelief, I was lost for words when I put the call out to the police department,&#8217; Robinson said.<br>&#8216;It&#8217;s pathetic. Whoever done this, whoever is behind it, turn yourselves in… We want justice for this baby. Babies do not ask to be here.<br>&#8216;To do this… you&#8217;re sick in the head.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Blessence is not the first child Terica Pearl seen [photo], with her other children in January has lost. Back in February 2011 when Pearl was just 15, her four-week-old daughter Janaiha died in a house fire. Forensics indicated the blaze began in the room where Janaiha slept and spread throughout the home</strong></p>



<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve walked into homes every day, I&#8217;ve walked up to car wreck every day, I walk into suicides throughout the year, I walk into homicides throughout the year, I have seen kids pass away.<br>&#8216;But to see something like this really sent me into another level of shock.&#8217;<br>Robinson said he would make sure Blessence got a proper burial.<br>&#8216;Whoever this family is, whoever done this, we&#8217;re going to bury this baby,&#8217; he said.<br>&#8216;We&#8217;re going to give this baby the proper burial. To have life taken so early, we&#8217;re going to stand up and bury this baby.&#8217;<br>Blessence is not the first child Pearl has lost. Back in February 2011 when Pearl was aged 15, her four-week-old daughter Janaiha died in a house fire. Forensics indicated the blaze began in the room where Janaiha slept and spread throughout the home.</p>

Alabama mom Terica Pearl, 29, is accused of intentionally causing the death of daughter, 1, by strangulation with a ‘thick robe string, then dumping her body in hearse’
