Jerice Hunter appears in court Sept. 7 and is accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter Jhessye Shockley.The arraignment for the mother accused of murdering her missing 5-year-old daughter has been continued to 8:30 a.m. Monday.
Jerice Hunter was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with the murder of Jhessye Shockley, although her daughter's body has never been found.
Hunter is being held on a $500,000 cash bond.
Jhessye Shockley was first reported missing in October by Hunter.
Detectives said she beat and starved her daughter and that Hunter locked the 5-year-old in a closet of their Glendale apartment, where she died. Hunter is then believed to have disposed of her body by placing it in a trash bin that was emptied in a landfill.
Search teams spent months sifting through tons of trash at a landfill south of the Valley, trying to recover Jhessye Shockley's remains. When no evidence surfaced, the landfill search was ended in June.
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