Aisha Thomas, the mother charged with killing her daughter and putting her body in a duffel bag, made her first court appearance Monday.
Thomas has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Oct. 1.
Thomas initially called police and told them that her 3-year-old child disappeared on a short walk to a nearby grocery store.
Officers searched her apartment twice before finding a small body in a duffel bag in a closet.
The child's grandmother Teena Stansberry told 13 Action News that she is devastated.
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The grandmother traveled to Las Vegas over the weekend to take care of the remaining siblings.
The child's father was arrested a few days before the discovery after a domestic violence incident.
