article_snippet: Jerice Hunter ( is accused of keeping Jerice Hunter ( daughter in a bedroom closet at the family's apartment in Glendale, Arizona, depriving Jerice Hunter ( of food and water, and beating Jerice Hunter ( .
article_snippet: Police say her mother told Police her mother left Jhessye with the girl's older siblings while her mother ran errands, and returned to the family's Glendale apartment to find the child gone.
article_snippet: Jerice Hunter ( didn't kill Jhessye and believes Jerice Hunter ( daughter is alive, said Jerice Hunter ('s attorney, Candice Shoemaker.
article_snippet: Candice Shoemaker said two people saw Jhessye at Jhessye apartment complex within hours of the report of Jhessye being missing.
article_snippet: Hunter's attorney, Candice Shoemaker also told jurors to take a hard look at the upcoming testimony of Jhessye's older sister, who is now 17.
article_snippet: The teen was in charge of Jhessye when The teen disappeared and changed The teen account because of guilt, Hunter's attorney, Candice Shoemaker said.
article_snippet: While in foster care after Jhessye's disappearance, her daughter was isolated from her daughter siblings and ‘started to internalize those feelings,Candice Shoemaker said.
article_snippet: Huntersaid Hunter's attorney, Candice Shoemaker client didn't kill Jhessye (left and right) and believes her daughter is alive .
article_snippet: Authorities say Hunter instructed her daughter other children to falsely tell police that Jhessye left the apartment while her daughter went to a check-cashing business.
article_snippet: The older sister later revealed The older sister witnessed The older sister mother's abuse of Jhessye, the prosecutor said.
article_snippet: The older sister said The older sister found The older sister beaten up and told authorities the closet where Jhessye was held smelled like death, Gallagher said.