COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Franklin County judge issued a $4 million bond for the woman charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was at the center of a statewide AMBER Alert last week.
Pammy Maye, 48, appeared in Franklin County Municipal Court on Thursday for her scheduled arraignment. This comes hours after she was booked into Franklin County jail when she was extradited from Cuyahoga County.
Maye is charged with murder, kidnapping and child endangerment related to the death of Darnell Taylor. Franklin County Municipal Court documents include an affidavit that says Maye suffocated Taylor on Feb. 13 inside their home.
You can watch the arraignment in the player or on the WBNS-TV YouTube channel.
In the early morning hours of Feb. 14, police received a call from a man claiming his wife told him that "she had just killed our foster child." A woman could be heard screaming during part of the call. Police identified the woman as Maye.
The man told police that Maye and the child left the residence. Authorities were searching for a Jeep Cherokee in which Maye reportedly drove away. They later found it in the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio.
A day after their disappearance, Brooklyn police officers were called to a business on Tiedeman Road after receiving a report of a woman walking suspiciously around the building. Officers identified the woman as Maye and took her into custody without incident.
After interviewing Maye, detectives learned that Taylor's body might have been placed in a sewage drain on Marsdale Avenue in Franklin County. Authorities later found his body there.
Maye was booked into the Cuyahoga County jail on Sunday.
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