On Monday, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced that investigators imagine Kahleb Rowan Collins is deceased. “His physique has not been recovered, though regulation enforcement are nonetheless actively gathering data and trying to find his stays,” mentioned the Sheriff.

“Investigators imagine Kahleb had been deceased for a while earlier than his disappearance was dropped at the eye of regulation enforcement after the Dec 8. single-vehicle crash that claimed the lives of his father, Steven Bradley Collins, and two-year-old sister, Ryleigh Collins,” the brand new assertion continued, earlier than asserting the fees towards Kahleb’s mom, Wendy Bailey.

The 22-year-old mother was charged Monday with aggravated youngster abuse, first-degree home violence and abuse of a corpse — all felonies — in addition to criminally negligent murder, a misdemeanor. Per the sheriff, the latter charged is said to the demise of Ryleigh, who they are saying was “unrestrained within the car Steven Collins was driving in his deadly crash.”

Bailey has been booked into the Fayette County Jail, awaiting a bond listening to.

The Sheriff famous that the case stays below investigation and additional costs for Bailey are attainable.

The saga started on December 8, when a automotive carrying the lacking kid’s father, Steven Collins, the boy’s mom, Wendy Bailey, and 2-year-old sister, RyLeigh, crashed right into a tree in Fayette County. Collins and his daughter had been killed, whereas Bailey was critically injured.

Per investigators, through an incident report seen by WBRC, the daddy was “driving aggressively at an excessive fee of velocity,” 92 MPH, when he misplaced management of the car, spun out and careened into the tree. Troopers famous the highway was moist, whereas neither father or mother was carrying a seatbelt and the kid reportedly wasn’t in a automotive seat; in addition they mentioned the truck was being “operated aggressively” earlier than the crash.

Collins was ejected from the truck and pronounced lifeless on the hospital. His daughter sustained deadly accidents through the crash, whereas Bailey was additionally “barely ejected” and airlifted to the hospital for remedy.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it realized on December 9 that the couple within the crash “had one other youngster,” 1-year-old Kahleb Rowan Collins, who wasn’t within the automotive with the remainder of them. He was reported lacking that day and a search started.

The Alabama Legislation Enforcement Company later introduced that Kahleb was final seen on September 4 — which means he had truly been lacking for greater than three months. An Emergency Lacking Baby Alert has since been issued for the boy, who stays unaccounted for.

On December 11, Kahleb’s grandfather John Elton Bailey — who was reportedly dwelling along with his daughter’s household — was arrested and charged with failing to report a lacking youngster. He is reportedly nonetheless behind bars on the Fayette County Jail.

Neighbors additionally instructed the native ABC affiliate that Steven instructed them their son “had gone to stay with family as a result of he was sick.” Relations, in the meantime, mentioned they had been instructed the boy had well being points.

On November 6, after authorities say the kid was final seen, Steven shared a publish about his son to Fb.

“Our son shouldn’t be doing properly. He isn’t rising and has main again points,” he wrote on the time. “His organs are rising however not his physique. He has to have surgical procedure sooner or later. Preserve him in your prayers. Been tough and simply appears going to be an extended tough robust highway forward of us.”