Kimberly Trenor trial: 1/29 evening update

When the body of the two-year-old girl was discovered in a plastic container floating in Galveston Bay, she had to be given a name - Baby Grace - until her identity was found.

It took weeks for her to be identified. In the end, it was Riley Ann Sawyers' paternal grandmother who recognized the description of the child. Riley's mother, Kimberly Trenor, never reported her missing. When confronted by police, she claimed an Ohio CPS worker had forcibly taken the child as part of a custody dispute.

Wednesday in Trenor's capital murder trial in her daughter's death, an Ohio CPS worker refuted that. Tony Coder told the jury that the paperwork Trenor and her husband claimed came from the agency was obviously "fake." The phone numbers and the address were wrong. In addition he testified CPS workers don't go alone to houses and forcibly seize children.

Deborah Wrigley