Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the

frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listen, our discretion is advised.

September 2021, Asconda Township, Michigan. A three-year-old girl is found dead in a trash bag.

Her mother telling investigators that a popular cartoon character ordered her to kill her daughter,

or otherwise she would face death herself. This is a tale of addiction, hallucination and horrific

crime. This is Sutton's story. Sutton Marie Mosser was born September 14, 2018 in

Detroit, Michigan, to mother Justine Johnson. It is unclear in my research

who Sutton's father was. However, even if he knew of his daughter's existence, he was not part of

Sutton's life at the time our story takes place. September 2021, when our story takes place,

23-year-old Justine and her daughter Sutton were living with her parents and two teenage

brothers on the 5,400 block of Cedar Lake Road in Osconda Township, Michigan.

And they were all helping to take care of the little girl.

She had a lot of love from the extended family.

Now Justine did have an apartment of her own, but she was struggling

to cope being a single mother and just with life in general, due to her mental health

struggles and severe drug addictions. September 16th, 2021, around 2.30pm. Sutton's uncle

Neasley Johnson would leave for work. He would later testify

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