The body LaToya Covington, a 35-year-old mother of three, was found at the Newby Island Sanitary Landfill in Milpitas earlier this month looking unrecognizable. Covington's family believes she was murdered, and is determined to seek justice.
An investigation is underway after a woman's body was found at Newby Island Sanitary Landfill in Milpitas.An investigation is underway after a body was found at a landfill in Milpitas, and the victim's family is determined to get answers.
San Jose police say that on June 2, employees at the Newby Island Sanitary Landfill found a woman's body.On Monday, Covington's loved ones shared her challenging past that they say included sexual abuse, foster care, and drugs."She tried multiple times to do harm to herself because she couldn't deal with the trauma that she felt," Lawal said.They say Covington was schizophrenic - the mother of three pushed family away and eventually became homeless.
Katrina Martin, a cousin, said Covington struggled after a time in hospitalized care. Her family says the system failed to provide the right mental health support. "We're not medical professionals. We don't have the capability to house a person who needs medical help at that level - like we were maxed out as a family as far as what we could do to care for her," Katrina Martin said."For her body to be crushed, compressed to the point where it was unrecognizable," Lawal said."Like she was trash, like she was a nobody - like I'm just hurt," Lawal said.
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