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Jun 15, 2009 10:03 pm US/Central
Affidavit: Baby's Dad Threw Her Body Into Lake
Mother Of Missing Baby Also Arrested
Compiled from staff reports
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Dallas police issued an Amber Alert for Daisja Weaver on June 10, 2009.
Dallas Police Dept.
According to court documents, the mother of missing nine-month-old Daisja Weaver says the baby's father dumped the child's body into Lake Lewisville the day after she died.
Dallas police arrested the baby's father, Alandus Weaver, on Saturday and charged him with tampering with evidence in the case. He is in jail in lieau of a $100,000 bond.
Late Monday morning, police arrested the baby's mother, Tamaira Creagh, and charged her with the same crime. She is being held in the Dallas County Jail and hasn't had
bond set
Both Weaver and Creagh are charged with
tampering with evidence, but police say more charges are likely, pending the outcome of the search and investigation.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit filed by police, Creagh, told detectives that Weaver regularly looked after the child while she was at work.
According to the affidavit: Creagh said on June 8, Weaver picked her up from work, but the child was not with him that day. Creagh asked Weaver where the baby was, and he said he had bathed the child and left her home alone. When they arrived back at their apartment, Creagh told police, she found the child's lifeless body wrapped in a towel on the floor.
The affidavit says that when Creagh asked Weaver what had happened to the child, he became threatening and violent towards her. She tried to call police, it says, but he stopped her and told her they had to "stick together" and tell police the child had been kidnapped.
According to the affidavit, Creagh told police that after Weaver picked her up from work the following day he drove her to Lewisville Lake, stopped on a bridge, tied a sandbag to the baby's body and dropped it in the lake.
The affidavit does not mention how the child died.
The affidavit says that Creagh told police throughout the incident she was afraid of what Weaver might do to her because she is six months pregnant with his child.
"While she remains anxious to cooperate and seek justice for her child,
law enforcement personnel have erroneously made her a suspect as
opposed to the victim and witness that she actually is," Roderick C.
White, Creagh's attorney, said in a statement.
Police searched Lewisville Lake Sunday and again Monday, but have not yet found a body. "We're not ready to say what exactly we're searching for," said Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse with the Dallas Police Department. "Whether it's the baby herself, a weapon, or what type of evidence, but all we want to say right now is that we are searching a portion of Lake Lewisville for evidence in this case."
CBS 11 News interviewed Weaver and Creagh on Friday. At that time, they said they were frustrated with the investigation. "We're not getting help from the detectives that were assigned to us," Creagh said. "We have to do the investigation ourselves."
Also during that interview, Weaver said, "Please, I just really need help trying to find my daughter." Now the mother, who once claimed to be innocent, is behind bars charged with helping coverup a possible murder.
Meanwhile, Daisja's family says they are still looking for the little girl.
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