The Department of Children and Families is considering a woman to be a second person of interest in the death of two siblings found dead in a Delray Beach canal earlier this month.
In a report released Tuesday, DCF details every involvement it has had with 6-year-old Ju'Tyra Allen and 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil, the brother and sister whose bodies were found stuffed into separate pieces of luggage dumped in a Delray Beach canal on March 2.
Clem Beauchamp, the boyfriend of the childrens' mother, has been considered a person of interest in the death investigation, but now DCF says Beauchamp's girlfriend is a person of interest too.
The DCF report names Michelle Dent as that person of interest, who is suspected in the deaths of not only Allen and McNeil but also their mother, Felicia Brown, whose body was found in a landfill last August.
The children were living with Dent and Beauchamp until the time of their disappearance. Delray Beach police Will not confirm whether they too consider Dent a person of interest, but stress they are not ruling anyone out.
The rest of the DCF report outlines investigations of abuse suffered by McNeil and Brown, who gave birth to him when she was just 14. However, DCF indicates it had not received any reports alleging abuse or neglect of Brown's children for the past six years.
DCF also says they were not notified of the disappearance of Brown until last August, and that they did not learn McNeil and Allen were living with Beauchamp after their mother disappeared.
Beauchamp is being held on unrelated federal gun charges. Police are looking into the possibility he killed Brown because she was supposed to be a witness in that case. As for Beauchamp's own kids with Dent, they remain in DCF custody.
