GBI spokesman John Bankhead said Monday that “everything points to it being a” 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera of the Cantons. Bankhead said officials were waiting for the results of an autopsy to confirm the identity and cause of death.
Bankhead told The Associated Press the body appears to have been so beaten and sexually assaulted. He said the girl’s mother had been told. (See crime 25 centuries.)
Counselors were on hand at the Canton school girls, students and staff of ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. School officials the same with the investigators, the Cherokee County school district spokeswoman Barbara p. Jacoby said in an email.
The child was last seen at about 5 Friday at the River Ridge apartments in Canton, 40 miles north of Atlanta, said Canton police Detective candy worth. The Government has said they believe the girl was kidnapped and brought a special legal team officers trained to deal with the abduction of children.