PRESS RELEASE
October 29, 2015

FLORENCE WOMAN CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE BY CHILD ABUSE

SUBJECT: Jessica Lynn Mamaux, age 23, of 125 N. Mustang Road, Florence, SC 29506 was arrested by deputies with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office on October 28, 2015 and charged with Homicide by Child Abuse (S.C. Code Ann. 16-03-085(A)(1)). See FCSO Booking Website for additional details.

NARRATIVE: Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Florence woman on October 28, 2015 and charged her with Homicide by Child Abuse. According to Investigators, working in conjunction with the Florence County Coroner’s Office, on or about August 29, 2015, Jessica Lynn Mamaux is alleged to have caused the death of her three month old child by placing a foreign object into the child’s mouth resulting in suffocation. An autopsy report on the child’s death reflected the manner of death as homicide.

Mamaux is being held at the Florence County Detention Center pending a bond hearing before a Circuit Court judge.

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Major Michael M. Nunn
General Counsel/P.I.O.