Peach Tree Times

A 35-year-old Columbus mother has been charged with selling her daughter to a Phenix City, Alabama. man with a lengthy history of child abuse. The girl, 5, was raped, sodomized and then strangled to death with a ligature.

Kristy Siple, who also has used the last name Hoskins, has been charged with sex trafficking, murder during a kidnapping, murder during rape, and murder during sodomy in the death of Kamarie Holland. The girl’s body was found Dec. 14, 2021, in a home in Phenix City formerly occupied by Jeremy Tremaine Williams, 37.

Siple originally said the girl had simply vanished from their home Dec. 13. She said she awoke at 5:50 a.m. to discover the front door open and her daughter missing.

But authorities said she had sold the little girl to Williams as a sex slave. They immediately began investigating, including gathering information about the vacant Phenix City home where Williams had lived.

Russell County, Alabama, Sheriff Heath Taylor said the girl’s body was found at the home.

“She was deceased and the manner of death at this time looks to be asphyxiation,” Taylor said at a Dec. 14 news conference. “It did appear from the scene there was some sexual abuse.”

Williams was arrested Dec. 14 at the Bamboo Motel in Phenix City, 3104 Opelika Road. He was charged with capital murder with a victim being under 14. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. Authorities said they will seek that penalty.

On Jan. 11, additional charges were filed against Williams, including capital murder during the course of a kidnapping, first degree capital murder during the course of a rape, first degree capital murder during the course of sodomy, producing child pornography and abuse of a corpse.

Williams was a drug dealer, authorities said, and Siple had a history of drug use. They knew each other before the girl was sold to Williams.

In 2018, Siple was charged with child endangerment by exposing a fetus to marijuana while she was pregnant.

Russell County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Alfonso Smith told Peach Tree Times he was involved in the investigation.

“It was actually … information was given to us from Columbus Police Department,” Smith said. “We led the investigation. It’s still ongoing.”

He said although he cannot discuss details of the case, authorities are confident of a conviction.

Smith has been in law enforcement for 22 years. He said cases like this “happen out of nowhere” and people need to be aware of their surroundings and the people they deal with.

Smith said he doesn’t think human trafficking has grown worse over the last two decades.

“I think we’re more aware of it,” he said.

Williams was arrested at his home in Columbus on Aug. 1, 2021, on a pair of misdemeanors charges, simple battery, family violence, and third-degree cruelty to children, third degree. He reportedly had slapped his wife across the face in front of a child. He entered a not guilty plea in court.

In 2009 he was charged with aggravated child abuse for reportedly dunking a 3-year-old boy into a pot of boiling water. Williams, who said the boy spilled the water on himself, was acquitted by a jury in a 2012 trial.

Williams is listed as a suspect in the death of his daughter, Naudia Treniece Williams, who was just one month old when she died of blunt force trauma in Alaska in 2005.

“We have information where he was a suspect in a one-year-old death in Alaska where he was a suspect but never charged because of not able to get enough evidence in that case,” Taylor said at the Dec. 14 news conference.

Russell County Circuit Court Judge David Johnson later issued a gag order on law enforcement, attorneys, and possible witnesses in the case.

Taylor became emotional when discussing the girl’s murder.

“Please, parents take care of your kids, watch your kids, be careful who your kids are around. I shouldn't have to state that, but it never hurts to remind everybody,” he said. “This is a, this is a bad world.”

Kamarie Holland was living with her father Corey Holland, who had custody, but she was allowed to visit her mother with the proper supervision. However, her final visit to her mother was unsupervised.

“The amount of pain Kristy has caused by ripping Kamarie out of our lives will never cease,” Holland said in a statement shared with The Daily Beast. “Kristy is a monster. My family and I will continue to wrestle with the loss of losing our angel Kamarie.”

The Center for Public Policy Studies outlines the impact of sex trafficking in Georgia, noting that 5,000 girls are currently at risk of being sex trafficked and that 374 girls are sexually trafficked every month.

The average age girls enter the Georgia commercial sex market is 12 to 14. An estimated 7,200 Georgia men pay for sex with an adolescent woman every month, and 100 adolescent girls are sexually exploited every night in Georgia. Atlanta has the highest rate of Hispanic females that are trafficked out of any location in the United States.