A Georgia mother-of-four who gave a tearful interview denying her involvement in the disappearance of her five-year-old daughter has been charged with the girl's murder and accused of previously selling the child to a man for sex.
An arrest warrant included in court records claims Kristy Siple, 35, agreed to accept payment from someone 'for having sexual intercourse and sodomy with her minor child.'
Authorities arrested Siple on Tuesday and charged her with murder and human trafficking in connection with the death of her daughter, Kamarie Holland.
Kamarie's body was discovered at an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama, earlier this month after she had been reported missing in Georgia by Siple.
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In a tearful interview with WTVM-TV before her arrest, Siple, who also goes by the last name Hoskins, said she had nothing to do with her daughter’s death and disappearance.
'I’m a mommy. I did not have nothing to do with this,' Siple told the station. 'She was my life. I lived for her daily. She was my only girl. I have 3 boys and her.'
Siple also complained that she had been left out of Kamarie's funeral arrangements by the girl's father, Corey Holland, who had custody of her.
She also said that the media's narrative has painted her as 'an evil person' and that is untrue.
'I'm innocent, and I had nothing to do with it...whoever can do that is disturbing, very sick in the head,' Siple added.
The warrant against Siple alleges that she did knowingly subject another person to labor, servitude, or sexual servitude.
Siple made her initial court appearance on Wednesday and was ordered held without bond.
Jeremy Tremaine Williams, 37, is also charged with capital murder for allegedly strangling Kamarie to death.
Charging documents against Williams said Kamarie died by asphyxiation from a ligature, and her body showed signs of sexual assault.
Kamarie’s father issued a statement Tuesday night to WRBL through a family spokesperson, pointing a finger of blame at Siple.
'The amount of pain Kristy has caused by ripping Kamarie out of our lives will never cease,' he stated. 'We are glad to see that she has been arrested. We are one step closer to justice for Kamarie,
'We hope that justice is served. Kristy should receive whatever the maximum penalty she can get… She’s a monster.'
Siple had told police that when she woke up at 5.50am on December 13 that her daughter was gone and the front door of their Columbus, Georgia, home was open, Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said earlier this month.
The girl’s body was found later that night at an abandoned home directly across the state border in Alabama.
Taylor said that Williams once lived at the home where the girl’s body was found.
Williams could face additional charges of capital murder during a kidnapping, capital murder during a rape, capital murder during sodomy, and production of child pornography.
Williams has been charged with child abuse in the past, but was never convicted. A week prior to Kamarie's death, he pleaded not guilty to slapping his wife in front of a child.
Williams was also a suspect in the murder of a one-year-old boy in Alabama and was accused of lowering a three-year-old boy into a bowl of boiling water in 2009 in Alaska.
His defense argued that the boy had poured the water on himself. Williams was acquitted in 2012.
Meanwhile, Siple is scheduled go to trial in February 2022 in connection with a 2018 charge of chemical endangerment of a child. According to court records, she exposed her unborn baby – not Kamarie – to marijuana while she was pregnant.
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