Maryland Mom Accused of Strangling 11-Year-Old Daughter With Plastic Drain Cleaner

Police in Maryland have charged a woman with strangling her 11-year-old daughter with a plastic drain cleaner.

Baltimore County Police said officers were called to the home after Kenyona Dillon, 34, went to a neighbors and said that her daughter was dead in the basement. Police arrived and found the girl, identified as London Olsen, “with blood around her mouth and bruises on her body,” The Baltimore Banner reported.

The plastic drain cleaner was found on the floor next to her body, and the marks on the girl’s neck matched it.

Dillon was uncooperative, refusing to answer questions or identify other children found in the home.

“Keyona Dillon was transported to BCoPD Headquarters to be interviewed, at which time she continued to display erratic behavior including exclamations about exposing child sex rings, transexuals, and the Proud Boys,” a probable cause statement says.

The other three children in the home were not physically harmed, but a 5-year-old girl told detectives that Dillon had beaten the family pets — two cats, a rabbit, and a dog — with a hammer and her knee the night before. The little girl said her mother put the animals’ bodies in the kitchen trash, where police found them.

The girl also told detectives she saw Dillon choking her sister and asked them not to tell her mother she told because she’d be mad.

In another interview, Dillon told detetives she believed that London had been having sex with the father of her other three children and she killed the animals “to show Victim Olsen what would happen to her if she didn’t tell the truth,” court documents said.

She also denied choking the girl and said what the 5-year-old saw was her performing CPR on London.

Detectives said in the court documents they found no evidence of sexual abuse or any kind of sexual relationship between the dead girl and the father of the other children.

Dillon is being held without bond, charged with first degree murder.

According to WBAL, Dillon demanded that she be allowed to represent herself at a bail review on Friday.

“I’m representing myself. Y’all violated my rights,” she told the court. “I am an indigenous sovereign of the land. You collected DNA without my permission. You are violating my rights.”

She told the court she didn’t want a public defender. The hearing ended with the judge ordering a mental evaluation.

Family members told the station that Dillon had made trouble statements in recent days and that they had contacted Child Protective Services. They said they believed a welfare check had been requested.

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[Featured image: Kenyona Dillon/Baltimore County Jail]