Ga. Woman Arrested After Remains of 4-Year-Old Are Allegedly Found in Her Car: 'I Think She Is Dead' By KC Baker

A Georgia woman is facing criminal charges after the body of a 4-year-old child was found in the trunk of her car, authorities allege.

Jessica Maria Motes was arrested on Sunday, Oct. 26 and charged with concealing the death of another person, a spokesperson for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in an email to PEOPLE.

Motes is being held at the Hall County jail without bond, online jail records show.

The grisly crime came to light on Sunday, when Motes’s father saw her drive a Nissan sedan into the parking lot of a Sam’s Club and Walmart Supercenter in Oakwood, according to an arrest warrant obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11 Alive and WSB-TV.

There, according to the warrant, she told her father that she “hurt (redacted name)” and “I think she is dead.”

Her father drove her out of the parking lot until they “eventually encountered law enforcement,” the warrant states.

The child’s remains “were later found in the trunk of the Nissan sedan,” which is registered to Motes, the warrant alleges.

Authorities did not specify how Motes and the child knew each other, if they did, or how the child died.

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The discovery of the child’s body in the trunk seems to be related to a death invesgation that same day in Hall County involving Oakwood Police, 11 Alive and the AJC report.

Someone called 911 to report that “a mother contacted family members about some type of injury involving her child,” the incident report states, according to the AJC.

It is unclear whether Motes has retained an attorney who can speak on her behalf.