<body><div>Jurors in the case of a woman accused of killing her toddler son and tossing his body in a dumpster have heard chilling text message sent before the alleged murder.On Thursday the trial of Georgia mom Leilani Simon, 24, continued. She is accused of murdering her young son Quinton before discarding his remains which were later found at a landfill.She was indicted on 19 criminal charges in December 2022, including malice murder, felony murder, concealing the death of another, and making false statements to police regarding the killing.<ul><li>Georgia mom 'tossed body of toddler in dumpster' before telling cops it was 'stinky shrimp pasta'</li></ul>Prosecutors earlier told the jury that the mother had been dealing with relationship problems and drug abuse in the days leading up to the toddler's death, and later gave police a series of strange accounts.Authorities claim that on October 5, 2022, Simon intentionally killed her son using an unknown object, "that when used offensively against a person did result in serious bodily injury," and resulting in Quinton's death.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0kdqNc_0wBzCXfI00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0kdqNc_0wBzCXfI00" width="1200" height="1151" ><figcaption>Leilani Simon faces a string of charges ( Image: Chatham County Detention Center)</figcaption></figure>The felony murder charges are based on allegations that Simon murdered Quinton while also committing felonious acts of aggravated assault and first-degree cruelty to a child by inflicting "cruel and excessive physical pain" on him, the specifics of which were unknown to the grand jury at the time of the indictment.In a lengthy opening statement lasting nearly two hours, Special Assistant District Attorney Tim Dean from Savannah, Georgia, emphasized Simon's explanation for being at the remote Azalea Mobile Home Plaza dumpster just after 1 am on the morning her son was reported missing.Dean said: "The evidence will show that she did not want to admit that [what she threw away] was Quinton's body, so she describes this trash that she threw away as stinky shrimp pasta."<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4DOEEk_0wBzCXfI00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4DOEEk_0wBzCXfI00" width="310" height="465" ><figcaption>Quinton Simon was found in a landfill site ( Image: @ChathamCountyPD/Twitter)</figcaption></figure>"'Yeah, I did throw away trash,' Simon tells the detective. 'There was spoiled food smelling in my car so when I pulled around and seen that (dumpster), yeah, I stopped and threw the trash away. It was spoiled. Spoiled like shrimp pasta. The whole car smelled like shrimp. I was like, what is that smell? I looked, and I threw it away. I didn't think anything of it to be honest, it's just old food.'"As the trial continued yesterday, jurors heard a chilling text message exchange between Simon and her ex-boyfriend, Danny Youngkin. One message dated September 30, before the boy's disappearance, was read out by Youngkin: "Like I’m always supposed to deal with your ******* moves and the mean *** kids when you get mad and dip and take **** from me." According to reports, when Defense attorney Martin Hilliard probed further about one of the offensive terms, it was clarified as meaning 'money, drugs' and that the reference to kids meant to all three of Simon's children.The trial continues.</div></body>

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Georgia mom's haunting text message before she 'tossed toddler in a dumpster' read aloud in court

Jurors in the case of a woman accused of killing her toddler son and tossing his body in a dumpster have heard chilling text message sent before the alleged murder. On Thursday the trial of Georgia mom Leilani Simon, 24, continued. She is accused of murdering her young son Quinton before discarding his remains which were later found at a landfill.