A mother who was taken into custody at a Mississippi train station after allegedly killing one child and abandoning another on the side of a Louisiana interstate was captured on video telling a television reporter that she was high when she did the murders. Aaliyah Jack, a 25-year-old mother from Lake Charles, Louisiana, was returned from Mississippi and placed into Calcasieu Correctional Center in Lake Charles on Saturday. As she was being escorted to the jail facility, Jack spoke with a KPLC News reporter, saying that she killed her kid and abandoned him while on drugs.
Jack is facing more serious accusations following the terrible murder of her 4-year-old son and the amazing survival of her 1-year-old. The string of incidents, which stretched from the Texas-Louisiana border to Mississippi, has left communities in shock, with law officials working diligently to piece together the details.
Jack was first charged with failing to report a missing child, but his charges have since been raised to one crime of second-degree murder, one act of cruelty to a juvenile, and two counts of failure to report a missing child. The allegations originate from the finding of her 4-year-old son’s body in the waters behind the Vinton Welcome Center, followed by the discovery of her 1-year-old son crawling across Interstate 10 the next morning.
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Judge Tony Fazzio set Jack’s bond at $9.1 million. She is still in detention in Meridian, Mississippi, where she was discovered awaiting a train on Monday night. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Stitch Guillory revealed his Marine Division’s intensive efforts to recover the 4-year-old’s body, as well as the subsequent, optimistic search for the 1-year-old. “Our deputies worked with heavy hearts, hoping to find the 1-year-old safe,” Guillory tweeted. “The discovery of the baby crawling in a ditch was nothing short of a miracle.”
The experience began when Marine Division deputies discovered the 4-year-old’s body on the evening of July 8. While attempting to identify the boy, family members reported Jack and her two children as missing. A BOLO (Be on the Lookout) alert was sent to other law enforcement agencies, resulting in Jack’s discovery by the Meridian Police Department without her younger child. When authorities discovered Jack alone, they prepared to restart their search for the 1-year-old at the Vinton Welcome Center.
However, the infant was discovered about eight miles away from the center, on Interstate 10. Guillory expressed enormous satisfaction at the boy’s survival, referring to him as “our miracle baby.” Calcasieu Parish District Attorney Stephen Dwight emphasized the emotional impact of the case. “Cases like this tug on your heart,” Dwight remarked. “We had the remnants of Hurricane Beryl, and that baby had to crawl for two days without knowing where he was.”
It is a miracle.” Authorities are still investigating the events that led to the tragedy. Sheriff Guillory has asked anyone with information to call lead detective Willie Fontenot at 491-3605. “Although we have upgraded charges on Jack, our detectives still have a lot of work to do,” stated the agent. “The investigation will continue while we await the autopsy results of the victim.”