ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – A 20-year-old Hispanic woman appeared in the St John’s Magistrates’ Court in Antigua on Monday as police maintained a heightened presence in a bid to ward off people, calling for the immediate death sentence to be imposed on the woman accused of murdering a nine-year-old school girl.
Angela Mejia appeared before Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel during an early morning court session without legal representation and has been remanded to His Majesty’s Prison, where she has been placed in isolation.
She will return to court on June 4.
Police say Mejia admitted to killing the Five Islands Primary School student, Chantel Crump, and led authorities to the location where the body was found in Weatherills last week.
Chantel was last seen alive last Wednesday when she was taken in a vehicle while heading home from school, with police reporting she waved to her friends from the vehicle.