Mother sentenced to life in prison for murdering 4-year-old, abandoning 1-year-old on interstate

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC/Gray News) - A mother in Louisiana was sentenced to life in prison for killing her 4-year-old child and abandoning her baby near an interstate.Aaliyah Jack, 28, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing her son, Legend, and 15 years for cruelty to juveniles for abandoning her 1-year-old child, Kingtrail.Legend had been living with his paternal grandmother, Dion Polk, since May 2024. Polk said she dropped him off with Jack’s mother on July 6, 2024, after which Jack ran off with him and Kingtrail.Legend’s body was found in the water near an interstate welcome center two days later. A truck driver spotted Kingtrail crawling along I-10 just a few miles away the next morning.Jack was arrested in Mississippi the same day Kingtrail was rescued. She was later charged with second-degree murder and cruelty to a juvenile.When deputies brought Jack to the Calcasieu Correctional Center on July 20, she told a KPLC reporter that she had kill