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   A mother accused of killing her 8-year-old daughter previously   
   considered putting her up for adoption and had been investigated   
   multiple times for her treatment of the girl, according to state   
   records.   
      
   Amari Hall was reported missing by her mother, Brittany Hall, on   
   Nov. 21, two days before the girl’s body was found, The Atlanta   
   Journal-Constitution previously reported. Brittany Hall and her   
   domestic partner, Celeste Owens, were each arrested on multiple   
   charges before Amari’s body was found. Their charges have since been   
   upgraded to include murder.   
      
   Now, state records obtained by Channel 2 Action News show that Hall   
   had been investigated multiple times by the Department of Human   
   Services Division of Family and Children Services. A DHS   
   spokesperson acknowledged that Hall had been investigated in 2015   
   and 2017 with no results. She also said a report on Hall had been   
   filed in 2021.   
      
   “Based on these records, DHS had no reason to believe the child was   
   in imminent danger,” the DHS spokesperson said. “We are working   
   closely with law enforcement to assist them in their investigation,   
   and to ensure the safety and well-being of the mother’s other   
   children.”   
      
   Arrest warrants for the two women obtained Tuesday by Channel 2   
   revealed that Amari’s death was caused by multiple blows to the head   
   and that Hall waited nearly two days to report her daughter as   
   missing.   
      
   In the 911 call recording, Hall told police that Amari had autism   
   and that they had been “having problems with her.” Later in the   
   call, the 911 dispatcher asked Hall to give more details about the   
   severity of Amari’s autism.   
      
   “She knows her surroundings, she knows the person and stuff, it’s   
   her behavior,” Hall said.   
      
   Though police believe Hall knew what happened to her daughter, they   
   do not think she went with Owens to dump her body, Channel 2   
   reported. Police said Hall gave them the general area where they   
   could find Amari’s body, but that Owens has not spoken with them at   
   all.   
      
   The warrants state that Amari died after she was repeatedly hit in   
   the head by Owens. They also accuse Owens of placing the girl’s body   
   in a trash bag and abandoning it in a wooded area in a DeKalb County   
   neighborhood.   
      
   Owens has been charged with malice murder, felony murder, concealing   
   a death, making false statements and seven counts of cruelty to   
   children, online jail records show.   
      
   Hall is accused in the warrants of causing “battered child syndrome”   
   through repeated abuse of her daughter. She is charged with malice   
   murder, felony murder, false reports of a crime, making false   
   statements to conceal a fatality and five counts of cruelty to   
   children, according to jail records.   
      
   Both women are being held in the Gwinnett County Jail without bond.   
      
   Some of the child cruelty charges against Hall and Owens are related   
   to videos found by detectives that show Hall’s two other children, a   
   6-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, being beaten, according to the   
   warrants. Both have been placed in protective custody, the AJC   
   previously reported.   
      
   When Hall’s other children were taken into custody by DHS   
   investigators, she told them that she had struggled to handle   
   Amari’s behavior. She also said she considered putting Amari up for   
   adoption and had called three adoption agencies before changing her   
   mind, Channel 2 reported.   
      
   — Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates.   
      
   https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/cops-gwinnett-8-year-old-killed-by-   
   battered-child-syndrome/5MC2QCJJCRHMTN4O3ZPFXCRLPQ/   
      
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