EMANI MOSS - 10 yo - / Charged: Father and stepmother, Eman and Tiffany Moss - Lawrenceville, GA

Father, Stepmother Charged with Murder of 10 Year Old Girl

The body of 10 year old Emani Moss was found in a trash can at a Lawrenceville, Ga. apartment complex. Her father and stepmother have been charged with her murder.

 November 02, 2013 at 10:17 PM




Eman Moss (L) and Tiffany Moss (R) were arrested and charged with the murder of 10 year old Emani Moss at their home in Lawrenceville, Ga. (Courtesy: Gwinnett County Detention Center)

Early Saturday morning, Eman Moss called 911 saying he was suicidal and told dispatchers there was a dead body with him at his home. Moss said his 10 year old daughter Emani Moss drank some unknown chemical and died.

Gwinnett County Police responded to the apartments on Veranda Chase Drive unincorporated Lawrenceville, Ga just before 4am Saturday. There, police met the father in the breezeway of the 1100 building. He pointed to a trash can in an outdoor area of the apartment complex. When officers opened the trash can, they found the badly burned body of the young girl.

After investigation, police arrested and charged the father Eman and his wife, Tiffany Moss-- the girl's stepmother-- with  felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, and concealing a body. 

They were both booked into the Gwinnett County Detention Center Saturday afternoon.

http://lawrenceville-ga.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/father-stepmother-charged-with-murder-of-10-year-old-girl-emani-moss-veranda-chase-lawrenceville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486655/Pictured-Couple-arrested-body-girl-10-badly-burned-Atlanta-trash-father-called-911-report-drank-poison.html

Why do bad people get children to kill and good people that would love and cherish them don't????  Just breaks my heart.  William

Court date set for dad, stepmom charged in death of girl found in trash can

By Marcus K. Garner and Aaron Gould Sheinin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Gwinnett County father and stepmother remain in jail Monday on murder charges after the body of a 10-year-old girl was found Saturday in a trashcan, authorities said.

The first court appearance for both is scheduled for Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Gwinnett County Magistrate Court.

The father, Eman Moss, called 911 shortly before 4 a.m. claiming he wanted to commit suicide, police said.

When Gwinnett County Police officers arrived at the Landmark at Coventry Pointe Apartments at Veranda Chase Drive in unincorporated Lawrenceville, Moss told officers his daughter Emani Moss “drank some chemical and was dead.”

According to the police incident report, Moss told police that “he panicked and did not know what to do,” and that he placed her body in a trash can outside his apartment building and tried to burn the body.

The father, Eman Moss, and the stepmother, Tiffany Moss, have been arrested, police said. They are both being charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, and concealing a death.

Both are being held at the Gwinnett County Detention Center without bond.

Eman Moss has been charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, and concealing a body.

Tiffany Moss has been charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree and concealing a body.

Gwinnett homicide detectives and a medical examiner are on the scene at the Landmark at Coventry Pointe Apartments at Veranda Chase Drive, Channel 2 reported.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/report-body-of-10-year-old-girl-found-in-gwinnett-/nbf4M/

Murdered Little Girl May Have Been Dead for Days


Gwinnett County Police say 10 year old Emani Moss may have been abused. Her father and stepmother have been charged with murder.

Posted by Vanzetta Evans (Editor) , November 04, 2013 at 07:49 PM


Gwinnett County Police are offering new details in the investigation of the murder of a 10 year old girl in Lawrenceville.

An autopsy was performed on Emani Moss, whose badly burned body was found inside a garbage can at the Coventry Pointe apartment complex on Veranda Chase Drive Saturday morning. The Gwinnett County Medical Examiner ruled Emani’s death a homicide, but more tests need to be done before the exact cause of her death can be identified.

Detectives believe the girl’s body was burned after she died in an effort to hide the crime. Little Emani may have died as early as Wednesday, October 30—three days before her body was discovered.

Investigators say there were signs of abuse. The young girl was denied food for several days before she died and she was severely underweight.

Detectives also believe Emani was cut off from the rest of the world in the weeks leading up to her death. 

“She did not attend school outside the home during this school year,” said GCPD Cpl. Jake Smith in a release. “She did attend public school during prior school years.” 

Emani’s father, Eman Moss, and step-mother, Tiffany Moss, were both arrested Saturday and charged with the girl’s murder.
Smith says the father was not suicidal during the 911 call as once thought. “That information was based on an initial miscommunication between the caller and the call taker and was clarified later in the call,” said Smith. 

11Alive reports Emani’s grandmother, Robin Moss, suspected the girl was being abused by her parents and fought for custody. The grandmother also called the Department of Family and Children’s services shortly after Eman and Tiffany were married.

Both parents are being held at the Gwinnett County Detention Center. They are charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, and concealing a body.


http://lawrenceville-ga.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/murdered-little-girl-may-have-been-dead-for-days-lawrenceville-emani-moss

Those asshole murderers thought if they burned her poor little body they could avoid the truth of what she was enduring before she was cruelly murdered. 

Damn all child murderers to hell for eternity.

Police: Ga. girl, 10, weighed 32 pounds at death

Updated 5:28 pm, Friday, November 8, 2013

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A 10-year-old girl weighed just 32 pounds when her burned body was found last week in a trash bin, a Gwinnett County police detective testified Friday.

The father and stepmother of Emani Moss have been charged with murder, concealing a body and child cruelty. Both were in court for a probable cause hearing Friday.

During the hearing, police Detective Collin Flynn said the girl's father, Eman Moss, told police different stories about what happened to his daughter, whose burned and emaciated body was found Saturday. Flynn said Eman Moss first told him his daughter had ingested chemicals and then claimed his wife, Tiffany, had poisoned her.

Later, Eman Moss told the detective that he had come home and found his daughter having seizures, Flynn said. Police have said they believe the girl was starved to death over the course of several days.

"At one point in the interview, he just leaned back in his chair and just said out of the blue, 'I'm guilty, I killed my baby,'" Flynn testified during the hearing.

Outside court, Eman Moss' attorney, John Burdges, would not say what his client had discussed with him or whether his client had even spoken with police, according to 11 Alive/WXIA-TV.

"I can't tell you what my client said, but it's a sad case," Burdges said.

Earlier, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Georgia's child protection agency had dismissed a report that Emani Moss had been beaten with a belt without sending caseworkers to interview her, examine her injuries or question her parents.

Agency officials characterized the beatings described by Emani Moss as "corporal punishment" and effectively ended its investigation despite four prior maltreatment investigations involving the child, including one that resulted in her stepmother's conviction on a child cruelty charge.

Her case and a separate death involving a 12-year-old boy have prompted the agency to review hundreds of cases that were closed with little or no investigation.

"The deaths of these two children are just devastating to us," the agency's director, Sharon Hill, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "My goal is to do everything in our power to make sure this doesn't happen again."

Redacted records show a DFCS worker took a call from Emani's school on May 17, 2012. The girl said that she had been beaten with a belt for eating breakfast too slowly. "The injury was identified as insignificant," the report said, "and determined to be corporal punishment."

Hill said the incident was one of several missed opportunities to help the girl. She said employees who dismissed the case should have taken the family history into account.

"When you put that together," she said, "it certainly does elevate it to a different level."
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http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Ga-agency-dismissed-report-that-girl-was-abused-4966971.php

Monday, Dec. 16, 2013

Flowers can remind us how system failed kids


The flower of justice for murdered children is beginning to bud: Georgia’s child welfare agency has fired two workers and punished four others (“Workers fired in starving death,” News, Dec. 12).

As living tribute to Emani Moss and Eric Forbes, beds of pink and blue flowers should be planted and maintained at each county courthouse in the state of Georgia, and on the grounds of the state Supreme Court and Capitol, and at the offices of Georgia’s child welfare agency — a reminder to all who would allow a child to be mistreated to the point of death that they will pay with their jobs and jail time, and those committing the murder will pay with their lives.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/opinion/readers-write/ncKrS/

Parents of girl found dead in Dumpster indicted for murder


Jan. 23, 2014 at 5:39 PM

ATLANTA, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A Georgia couple has been indicted for their 10-year-old daughter's death, which medical examiners say was caused by starvation.

The burned body of Emani Moss, was found in a Dumpster outside the apartment of her father Eman Moss and stepmother Tiffany Moss in Gwinnett County in November, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

On Wednesday, Gwinnett County Medical Examiner confirmed that the girl starved to death and weighed only 32 pounds when she died. Her body was burned after she died.

"This is the worst investigation I've been involved in with regards to the condition of the child that did not have trauma," Gwinnett County Medical Examiner's Investigator Eddie Reeves told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Also Wednesday, a grand jury indicted the Mosses on charges of malice murder, concealing a death, two counts each of felony murder and two counts each of first-degree child cruelty.

Bail was denied for the couple last week by a judge. Court records show the Mosses previously faced cruelty and abuse accusations.

The Mosses two other children have been placed with the Georgia Division of Family and Children's Services.

Grandmother of 10-Year-Old Starved to Death Pleads for Custody of Remaining Siblings
A Gwinnett County ruled neither grandmother was fit to have custody.

Posted by Scott Bernarde (Editor)
June 19, 2014 at 03:37 PM

A grandmother seeking custody of the two remaining siblings of Emani Moss asked a Gwinnett County, Ga., judge Wednesday to reconsider a ruling that neither grandmother was fit to care for the children.

But the ruling stood, according to an AJC report.

Pearlie Bashir said she should be allowed to care for the children, who have been in state custody since the death of Emani Moss, the Lawrenceville girl who died of starvation and abuse in November 2013, allegedly at the hands of her parents.

The girl’s badly burned body was found in a trash can at an apartment complex on Veranda Chase Drive on Nov. 1.

The parents, father Eman Moss and stepmother Tiffany Moss, have been charged with murder and are facing the death penalty.

In April, a judge ruled neither Bashir nor Robin Moss could have the children. Bashir is Tiffany Moss’ mother; Robin Moss is Eman Moss’ mother.

The judge said in the ruling that Bashir, who lived with the family for a time during the alleged abuse, “turned a blind eye to the suffering,” and Robin Moss had “no relationship” with the children.

In this WSB report, Bashir told the court Wednesday she disagreed with the “turned a blind eye” statement, saying, “I know I would be a good placement for the children.”

Robin Moss told the court she was fine with the ruling, but didn’t want the children to go with Bashir.

The TV station is might be two years before the parents’ face a murder trial.

http://loganville.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/grandmother-of-10yearold-starved-to-death-pleads-for-custody-of-remaining-siblings58749

Father and stepmother in court to plead not guilty to starving 10-year-old Emani Moss to death and incinerating her body in trash can

○ Emani Moss found in a garbage bin outside apartment in Atlanta last year
○ Her father Eman Moss and step-mother Tiffany Moss charged in connection with the death and with trying to hide the body
○ The couple appeared in court on Friday when they entered not guilty pleas

By JAMES RUSH
PUBLISHED: 03:24 EST, 14 July 2014
UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 14 July 2014

The father and stepmother of a ten-year-old girl who was found starved to death and burned in a trash can have pleaded not guilty to her murder.

Emani Moss weighed just 32lbs when her remains were removed from a garbage bin outside an apartment complex in an Atlanta suburb last year.

The girl's father, Eman Moss, and step-mother Tiffany Moss were charged with murder, concealing a body and child cruelty.

Police alleged the couple starved to death the child before setting her body on fire to cover up the crime.

The couple entered not guilty pleas after hearing the official charges against them when they appeared in court on Friday, WSB-TV Atlanta has reported.

An investigator told the court the couple felt they needed to get rid of the body 'to keep the family together,' according to the Gwinnett Daily Post.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the two accused, which could cause the case to move more slowly.

In November last year it was reported that Detective Collin Flynn said that Eman Moss had initially told police that Emani died after swallowing some chemicals.

The man later changed his story, accusing his wife of poisoning the 10-year-old.

Eman Moss eventually admitted that he returned home from work on October 24 to find Emani lying in the bathtub and unable to move.

Neither he nor Tiffany Moss, however, sought medical attention for the girl because they were afraid they would get in trouble with the law, Flynn said.

According to a report from Georgia’s child services agency, Eman Moss bought a trash can and tried to incinerate his daughter's body in it. When the girl's remains would not burn, he took Emani back home and called police on November 2.

It had earlier emerged that Georgia's child protection agency had dismissed a report that Emani Moss had been beaten with a belt.

The Division of Family and Children Services did not send caseworkers to interview the girl, examine her injuries or question her parents.

Agency officials concluded the beatings were corporal punishment and ended the case despite four prior maltreatment investigations involving the child.

The agency first made contact with the Moss family in 2003 when Emani was only one year old, the station 11Alive reported.

Caseworkers were told that the baby was not being properly cared for and denied food, but the officials ruled the allegations 'unsubstantiated' and closed the matter.

Two years later, in April 2005, the agency investigated claims that the 3-year-old girl was suffering emotional and psychological neglect, but these allegations were also dismissed as ‘unsubstantiated.'

In December 2008, the DFCS got a tip asking to look into claims of inadequate medical care and possible sexual abuse.

Caseworks met with the child in private and concluded that 'no concerns were noted' about her.

In March 2010, the child services agency confirmed that Emani had been whipped with a belt for failing to finish her schoolwork or get good grades.

Emani's parents were ordered to take parenting classes and go through an anger management course. Three months later, the child was returned to the home and the case was closed six months after that.

Last May, officials at Emani's grade school reported seeing welts on her back and marks on her head, which were determined to be the results of corporal punishment.

The last contact between DFCS and the Moss family came three months before Emani's death, when the agency got an anonymous tip that Emani appeared 'distant and afraid to interact’ with others.

However, DFCS closed the case after failing to find the parents’ address.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691245/Father-stepmother-court-plead-not-guilty-starving-10-year-old-Emani-Moss-death-incinerating-body-trash-can.html

hmm, curious - no mention of a biological mother or any maternal family members. how sad for the children left behind, that no family members are worth a sh&t to care for them.