Just a few days after an Ohio mother admitted to killing their 3-year-old child, a mother in Colorado was sentenced for the same thing.

On Wednesday, Alexus Nelson, 28, was sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 2023 murder of her 5-year-old daughter, Maha Li Hobbs. She pleaded guilty to the charges of second-degree murder (48 years), tampering with a deceased body (24 years), and attempting to influence a public servant (12 years), per the press release from the Colorado Judicial Branch.

All sentences will be served consecutively. But how did we get here?

In May 2023, Nelson’s mother called the Aurora Police Department (APD) for a welfare check after allegedly not seeing her granddaughter, Maha Li, in nearly three weeks.

When local authorities called Nelson, she told them that she had given up her child for adoption. But when officers called the adoption agency that Nelson provided, they had no record of her doing such a thing.

As a result, the APD obtained a search warrant the next day for Nelson’s apartment, where they found the burnt human remains of Maha Li in a utility closet and her bone fragments in the fireplace.

Source: Colorado Mom Faces Consequences After Leaving 5-year-old Daughter’s Remains in Fireplace

A Colorado woman has been charged with multiple felonies after she allegedly brutally assaulted her Tinder date. The 22-year-old is accused of stripping him naked, duct-taping him, choking him, and slicing him up with a knife before she ordered something to eat on DoorDash

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On Wednesday, September 28, around 5:43 p.m., Officer Mechtly and Officer Christopher Tkachuk picked up Lauren Marie Dooley after someone reported to 911 an argument coming from her home in Colorado Springs, according to an arrest affidavit.

The person told the dispatcher he or she could hear someone saying, “because you cut me” and “you’re going to kill me,” and said he was bleeding all over the bed.

Tkachuk wrote, “Upon our arrival, residents at the apartment advised there was a naked male in the parking lot that needed help. Officers located [name redacted] who was naked and appeared to be bleeding from a laceration on his left arm. [Name redacted] also actively backing away from the suspect (identified via a law enforcement database as Lauren Dooley – DOB: 06/2 was /2000) who appeared to have blood smeared on her arms and hands.”

The victim was a 21-year-old Black male, who met his attacker on the popular dating app.

The report continued, “[Name redacted] exclaimed that Lauren tied him up and cut him. Lauren was detained but invoked her Miranda Rights and refused to speak with me.”

The officers said the young man didn’t know the young woman for long but still went to her house.

“They sat on Lauren’s couch and talked a bit. Lauren then proceeded to take clothing off and perform oral sex on him,” the report records. “She then used duct tape to bind [name redacted] wrists together and ankles together.”

The man said that despite finding it “odd” he still consented.

“However, when Lauren produced a knife and demanded he gets into her bedroom, [he] no longer consented to staying at the residence.”

Because he was afraid, he got into her bed and let her climb on top of him. She then “proceeded to use the knife to cut his left shoulder,” and “then used both hands to apply direct pressure to [his] throat for approximately 20 seconds, making it difficult to breathe. Lauren stopped, but only to procure a belt that she then placed around [the young man’s] neck.”

Source: Police: Colorado Woman Duct Tapes, Stabs 21-Year-Old Black Male Tinder Date, Orders DoorDash as He Bleeds