Sentenced: 7YO Layla Stewart Sexually Assaulted By Mom's Married Boyfriend

[Sugar Cookie]

Police say the bodies believed to be that of a Vancouver woman and her daughter were found in a rural area near Washougal on Wednesday, according to the Vancouver Police Department.

Meshay Melendez, 27, and her 7-year-old daughter Layla Stewart were last seen Sunday, March 12.

Police believe based on identifying genetic marks, they are the bodies of Melendez and Stewart.

The medical examiner will determine their identities and official cause of death.

Police say Melendez’s former boyfriend, Kirkland Warren, is a person of interest in the case.

On March 2, Warren was charged in a drive-by shooting, assault with a firearm, felony harassment and possession of a stolen firearm.

Police said he fired at Melendez's apartment.

According to new court documents, Warren was issued a no-contact order protecting Melendez, which police said he violated less than two hours later. He called her from jail.

He was then released on bail March 8.

On Sunday, March 19, Warren was arrested again for unlawful possession of a firearm, violating a protection order, and tampering with a witness.

The last person believed to have seen Melendez and Stewart is a friend who, according to police reports, called 911 on the morning of March 12 after noticing Melendez unresponsive and partially clothed in the passenger seat of Warren's car.


Warren then picked Stewart up from her house and drove away with the mother and daughter.

Melendez's car was later found near her home a week later.

Police said Warren had Melendez's phone in his possession when he was arrested Tuesday.

Bodies believed to be missing woman, daughter found

Police say the bodies believed to be that of a Vancouver woman and her daughter were found in a rural area near Washougal on Wednesday, according to the Vancouv

katu.com

 

[Handbag]

So preventable, wth! Heavy sadness here

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Layla Stewart

 

[cubby]

That poor baby girl having to die because of her mother's choice of partners. She looks a lot like GrandMonkey, who's also 7, especially with the two pom-pom hair style.

 

[HEREIBE22]

That poor baby girl having to die because of her mother's choice of partners. She looks a lot like GrandMonkey, who's also 7, especially with the two pom-pom hair style.

I would hate to feel that pain as a grandma... I would likely end up in prison or the nut house.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

It took him two hours to violate a no-contact order. Go figure.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

November 7, 2023

The man accused of killing Vancouver mother and daughter, Meshay Melendez and Layla Stewart, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of first-degree rape of a child involving the 7-year-old.

Kirkland C. Warren, 28, of Vancouver, has already pleaded not guilty in Clark County Superior Court to two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

He also pleaded not guilty to a slew of domestic violence charges in another case with Melendez, 27, as the listed victim.

He appeared Oct. 20 on the new charge after court records state DNA tests from Layla returned as a match to Warren.

The mother and daughter were last seen the morning of March 12 with Warren, who had been barred by court order from having contact with Melendez in connection with the prior domestic violence case, according to investigators. Melendez’s mother reported them missing March 18 after she couldn’t reach them for their regular video chat session. Authorities found their bodies March 22 in a rural area east of Washougal.

Investigators noted Layla was nude from the waist down when they found them. During the autopsy of her body, Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office staff took DNA swabs of her genitals and sent them to the

Washington State Patrol Crime Lab for testing, according to a newly filed probable cause affidavit.

The medical examiner’s office determined both Layla and Melendez died from gunshot wounds to the head.

Kirkland Warren, already facing murder charges, pleads not guilty to rape of a child

The man accused of killing Vancouver mother and daughter, Meshay Melendez and Layla Stewart, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of first-degree rape of a child involving the 7-year-old.

www.columbian.com

His wife got probation for stealing from the victim's account

Wife of murder suspect Kirkland Warren sentenced for stealing from credit union accounts

The wife of Kirkland Warren, the man charged in the March 2023 slayings of a Vancouver mother and daughter, was sentenced to two years of probation last month for stealing money from credit union acco

www.columbian.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The man accused of killing his former girlfriend and her 7-year-old daughter in Clark County, Washington in March 2023, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and one count of child molestation on Thursday.

Kirkland Warren previously pleaded not guilty to the charges of first-degree murder and a count of first-degree child rape.

Someone walking a dog found the bodies of Meshay Melendez, 27, and her 7-year-old daughter, Layla Stewart, on March 22, 2023, in a rural area near Washougal. Both had bullet wounds to the head. The pair had been missing since March 12.

At the time of her disappearance, Melendez had a protection order against Warren after he was arrested for shooting at her apartment building earlier that month.

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[the cat did it]

Mom and daughter were quite beautiful. Layla's eyes are gorgeous and I would kill to have that little girl's naturally long and curly eyelashes. What a sad sorrowful shame to have lives cut so short, what a disgusting thing he did to that little girl and left her body so indecently exposed, it's like what he did wasn't bad enough he had to kick it up a notch and leave her private business exposed for anyone to see/find. Disgusting pig-no sentence or whatever happens to him in prison will ever suffice IMO

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A judge in Clark County sentenced a man to life in prison for the murders of ex-girlfriend Meshay Melendez and her 7-year-old daughter Layla Stewart.

Kirkland Warren pleaded guilty on Sept. 5 to first-degree aggravated murder, second-degree murder and first-degree child molestation days before the murder trial was set to start. He received the maximum punishment allowed under Washington law in court on Tuesday, life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Ex-boyfriend sentenced to life in prison for killing Vancouver mother and her 7-year-old daughter

A Vancouver mom and daughter were found shot dead in Washougal. Her ex-boyfriend was first arrested for violating a no-contact order and later for their murders.

www.kgw.com