On February 25, 2010 I wrote an article about a 2 year old girl that was missing from Grand Rapids Michigan. Her mother, Consuela Martinez said she tucked her daughter into bed around 11 pm on Monday night, Feb, 22 but the next morning about 9 am she found her gone from her bedroom and her boyfriend, Jeffrey Lynn Malmberg gone also. She didn’t think much about it at first since he often took little Jozlynn with him when he ran errands. It was only a few hours later when she noticed that the $2800 in her purse from her income tax return was missing. It was then that she knew she had to call the police. An Amber Alert was issued for Jozlynn.
Lansing Michigan police located Malmberg and arrested him but the little girl wasn’t with him and he denied being involved with her disappearance.
Jozlynn is described as 2 years old, Hispanic, about 2 ft 9 in. tall and she weighs 22 lbs. She has brown eyes and brown hair and she has a scab on her chin. She also has a spot on the right side of her head where the hair isn’t growing. She also walks with her toes pointed inward.
Now the Amber Alert has been canceled, as Grand Rapids Police Dept is saying the child is dead. According to Police Chief Kevin Belk, Malmberg told them that Jozlynn died at her home that Monday night, yet they still haven’t located her body.
He stated that after she died he threw her body in the trash bin and then later after her mother went to sleep he retrieved the body and walked several blocks away and put her in a commercial dumpster.
It was reported that Consuela Martinez went to the jail to see Malmberg seeking answers but apparently she didn’t get was she was looking for because he ended up leaving in a hysterical mood and crying. Police are saying they have searched the area where the trash from the said dumpster goes but have not found anything but they fear that her little body may have been incinerated.
It seems that Consuela and Malmberg also have a 7 month old son who has been taken into protective custody and a hearing has been scheduled for March 11, 2010 to determine where he will be placed.
Jeffrey Malmberg is being held in jail under a $1 million bond. Why he even has a bond on him at all is beyond me. If what he has told the police department is true the man should rot in jail for what he has done to this baby. There are no details as to how she died or who is involved, only that she is dead and he threw her little body away as if she was yesterday’s garbage.
What is up with all that? Why are our children suddenly being treated like they are garbage? How would these monsters like it if someone treated them that way? It is such a sad world to be this way and it isn’t only here in America, it is all over that our children, our future for this world are being taken out from under us and thrown out. God I wish I had the answers to stop this.
I personally think that when someone kills an innocent child they should get an automatic death penalty or at least life in prison without ever having a chance of parole. If all they are going to get after committing such crimes is a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again, then they are wasting our tax dollars. I say put our tax dollars to good use and pay for the cost of the electrical currents flowing into them when they are hooked up to that chair and show them we are tired of this and we aren’t going to take it anymore. Some may say I am being too harsh but it is so heartbreaking to read everyday about another child being abused, hurt, or murdered by some creep that must enjoy conflicting pain on others to get their kicks off. If the laws were stricter then maybe they would give it a second thought. Maybe!!!
God bless this beautiful little girl. My tears are with you Jozlynn Martinez.
Jan Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackJan thank you for the Update about little Jozlynn….How very very sad….She was the exact same age as my little Holly and I would just lose my mind if this thing had happened to her. Why, dear Lord, why? I have no answers for why this keeps happening. The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe we are being inundated with these types of stories to finally make forward movement towards stopping these murders. If we all finaly stand up and help make the necessary changes maybe this will stop happening. God Bless little Jozlyn…my heart breaks….
Another “man” who rids himself of another man’s child born to his GF.
This will only stop when women find they CAN live without a man in their…. bed.
I read that the police searched over 22,000 tons of garbage at the waste plant. They figured by the time Malmberg confessed, like you wrote Jan, it was just too late. What concerns me here is how will be get the appropriate punishment(s)? I can pretty much assume that she died at HIS hands due to abuse, I’m sure we are all fearing it was a molestation issue. Her mom said Malmberg was “very protective” of Jozlynn. It is a shame that the fact of him always taking her w/him to “run errands?” could have a different meaning, that something very horrible was going on behind the scenes, and this poor 21 year old young mother obviously trusted him. They were together for 1 1/2 ys. He looks like a hideous creep…So, this troll is claiming that Jozlynn died sometime after she was put to bed, BUT before mommy went to bed, even disposing of her body while mommy was still awake? That’s crap and we know it. They should burn his **** slowly until he tells the truth, like the wick of a candle.. I wish we would go back to eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Betcha it would work.
I can’t stand this anymore. Another innocent baby, murdered, probably by the woman’s boyfriend. What is it with these women? They bring any guy into their homes, because they are so desperate for male company.
They should be focused on taking care of their child/children, and not worried who is going to be sharing their bed with them.
This breaks my heart.
RonFan – I agree…him being “protective” of her and taking her with him to run errands stinks to high heaven. He was abusing that baby. He probably raped her and suffocated her while muffling her screams. I want to reach down this monster’s throat and rip his heart out with my bare hands! SINGLE MOTHERS …. WAKE UP! YOUR CHILDREN COME FIRST AND YOUR NEED FOR COMPANIONSHIP A VERY DISTANT SECOND!
I agree with everyone here. Eye for an eye is what we need or something that drastic. Our judicial system needs some changes to keep up with this changing world.
I am a single parent of two little ones and have been for 7 years. My children are my life. I cannot believe how most of my single parent friends male and female are so focused on getting a date, or getting a partner -sick of hearing, if I could just find my soulmate. Please. I just want to shake them and say what about your children? They need you, when they are grown and out of the home, then you can date anyone you wish. I know it is hard to raise children alone, but it would sure be harder to survive without them because a stupid choice was made to date or bring the wrong partner home. Not worth the risk at all…My prayers are with Jozlynn and her little brother. God bless them.
I know Connie. I have held and cared for Jozlynn. I am heart sick as to what has happened to her. I wish young mother realize the risk in having men over your children I wish Jozlynns father had stepped up earlier. He missed out on a beautiful little girl. I met Jeff. I was not impressed. Connie was trying to get rid of him. Its easy to have hind sight of would have, should have, could have, This innocent baby is gone. But her life doesn’t have to be in vain. Children are precious gifts and need to be treasured. Young mothers, please don’t jeoopardize your children,fathers please step up and don’t leave all the job of raising them on the moms. It takes two.
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