Story by Keith L. Alexander • 2h ago
A District man was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday for the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, who told authorities last year that she threw the couple’s 2-month-old son’s remains in the trash.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Milton C. Lee sentenced Carl B. Jones, 45, to the maximum amount of prison time called for in a plea agreement Jones and federal prosecutors reached in September.
Jones pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the April killing of Ladonia Boggs, whose body was found in April in the doorway of her apartment in the 1500 block of Benning Road NE. An autopsy determined she had been stabbed multiple times.
In May 2021,
police had accused Boggs of putting 2-month-old Kyon Jones’s body in a trash receptacle after she said he died. Boggs initially claimed a social worker and her godmother had removed Kyon from her home, though she later admitted to police that, after smoking PCP, she was sleeping in the same bed with her son and rolled over him, according to court documents.
When she woke up, she saw that the baby was not breathing, placed his body in the trash and gave his clothes to a neighbor, according to court documents.
Prosecutors decided not to pursue a murder case and instead charged Boggs with tampering with physical evidence. She was not jailed and had a court date set for two months after she was killed.