The body pulled last week from Lake Allatoona was that of 7-year-old Kamaire Wash, an East Point girl reported missing, the GBI said Friday. A cause of death has not yet been released.
The GBI conducted an autopsy and used DNA to identify the remains, which were spotted June 29 by fishermen in Bartow County. The following day, Kamaire was reported missing, according to police.
After he claimed he searched for Kamaire for about an hour, Michael Wash reported his oldest child missing. Later that day, the case shifted from a search for a missing child to a homicide investigation, according to Capt. Cliff Chandler. Last Friday, Wash and his live-in girlfriend were charged with first-degree child cruelty and concealing the girl's death.
Wash and Davis were each charged with two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, cruelty to children in the third degree, making false statements and concealing the death of another. Additionally, Wash was charged with aggravated assault and Davis was charged with being a party to the crime of aggravated assault. Both were being held without bond Friday in the Fulton County jail.
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