A depraved mother allegedly dumped the strangled body of her 1-year-old baby girl into the back of a hearse parked outside an Alabama funeral home and is now facing murder charges, according to authorities.

Terica Pearl was arrested after her daughter Blessence’s body was found Saturday by an employee at West Gadsden Funeral Home when someone reported what they thought was a doll inside a hearse, WSAW reported. 3

The funeral home employee then made the gruesome discovery that the doll was a dead human child when they went to retrieve it, the owner of the funeral home, Dantez Robinson, told the outlet.

Little Blessence’s remains were found strangulated with a “thick robe string,” according to court records obtained by WBRC.

Pearl was arrested by Gadsden police on Sunday and char

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