Kahleb Collins is presumed dead, authorities announced weeks after his father Steven Collins and 2-year-old sister RyLeigh died in a car crash. An Alabama woman has been arrested and faces charges in the death of her toddler son, who is now believed to be dead months after he vanished.
![[Kahleb Collins was last seen on September 4 in Winfield, Alabama]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/01/19/Screenshot-2025-01-01-at-1.33.55%E2%80%AFPM.jpg)
Wendy Pamela Jean Bailey, 22, was charged Tuesday with aggravated child abuse, criminally negligent homicide, corpse abuse and domestic violence, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office. Her one-year-old son Kahleb Collins was last seen on September 4 in Winfield, Alabama, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) said on December 17. However, he was not reported missing to the authorities, who were later alerted only to concerns about his wellbeing after a car crash on December 8.
![[On December 11, Kahleb’s grandfather John Elton Bailey, was also taken into custody for failing to report a missing child]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/01/19/Screenshot-2025-01-01-at-1.33.35%E2%80%AFPM.jpg)
The car crash killed the child’s father, Steven Collins, 40, who was driving at least 92 miles-per-hour when he went off the road and crashed into a tree, and his two-year-old sister RyLeigh Collins, the Fayette County Sheriff’s office said. His mother was hospitalized in critical condition.
![[Kahleb’s disappearance came to light after his father and his two-year-old sister RyLeigh Collins were killed in a car crash in December]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/01/19/Screenshot-2025-01-01-at-1.33.08%E2%80%AFPM.jpg)
The sheriff’s office said law enforcement was alerted by an unnamed family member a day later that the man and woman in the crash “had another child” who was unaccounted for, according to a news release. Bailey was released on December 30 and immediately transported to the Fayette County Jail and charged in connection with the deaths of both of her children.
