Investigators in Texas have identified the body of an infant girl who was pulled from a lake last month.
A fisherman found Peyton Skye Davis' remains inside a tackle bag at Fort Phantom Hill Lake in August. 31.
The baby's mother and her boyfriend have since been arrested.
The baby's grandmother says she is grieving the loss of the little girl she never had the chance to hold or see in person.
“It hurts so much. That we can't hold her, we can't give her the love that we shared with her,” said Tracy Davis, the baby's grandmother.
According to Davis, Peyton's mother regularly called her by video so she could see Peyton, but those calls suddenly stopped without explanation.
“We didn't know any information. We didn't know what was going on until Detective Scott called my son and asked him if Peyton was in his possession. They asked the police to come down here and look for where he was at the time,” Davis said.
Days later after her son Anthony Davis' home was searched, Tracy Davis says the family got the news they most feared from the Abilene Police Department.
“Then he (Benny) officially told me. 'Mom, it's her. It's her. They killed my baby,'” Tracy Davis said. “It broke my heart. I just started crying.”
And now the grandmother is bothered by the question why, but says Peyton will always have a special place in her heart.
“Peyton, we love you so much. You were our world, and you're going to be our world no matter what,” Davis said. “One day we'll be there with you again. And I'll get to hold my baby.”
Abilene police said 20-year-old Heather Kennedy, Peyton's mother, and her boyfriend, 35-year-old Donald Schultz, were arrested in the case.
They face charges of tampering with a human corpse and investigators say more charges may be filed.
