Separate Trials Set For Couple In Girl's Death
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- A man and woman charged in the death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in the crawl space of a vacant Colorado home will be tried separately.
The Gazette in Colorado Springs reports that District Judge G. David Miller has ordered separate trials for 30-year-old Hanif Zarif Sims and 30-year-old Monique Alisa Lynch in the death of Genesis Sims. The girl's body was discovered last May in a vacant home in Monument.
Lynch is charged with first-degree murder. Her trial is set for June 14.
Sims is charged with child abuse resulting in his daughter's death and his trial is set for May 31.
El Paso County investigators say Sims and Lynch have blamed each other.
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