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CPS takes custody of boy born to jailed mom of 'Baby Grace'

11:30 AM CDT on Sunday, June 29, 2008

By Sara McDonald / The Daily News & KHOU.com

GALVESTON, Texas -- CPS has custody of a baby born to the mother of “Baby Grace.”

Kim Trenor gave birth to the baby boy Thursday, her attorney confirmed.

Trenor, 19, along with her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler III, is accused of beating Riley Ann Sawyers to death last summer.

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Trenor and Zeigler are both awaiting trial for capital murder and being held in the Galveston County jail on bonds of $850,000 each.

Trenor’s trial was scheduled for November to allow her to recover from the birth.  

Tom Stickler, Trenor’s attorney, said she went to the hospital Thursday but hadn’t talked to her and didn’t know what she named the baby.

He said she didn’t have any family with her but that “people who are sympathetic to her cause” were with her at the hospital.

Sheryl Sawyers, Riley Ann’s paternal grandmother, told 11 News the entire situation is unfortunate.

“I am glad the child may have a chance to go to a good family. But it’s a sad situation altogether. As a mom, I feel badly that Kimberly will never know her child. But then again, she probably shouldn’t,” Sawyers said.

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Stickler would not say which hospital Trenor went to, but said it wasn’t “the one people would think of.” Jail and prison inmates often are treated at University of Texas Medical Branch facilities in Galveston. That apparently was not the case for Trenor.

The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, declined to comment. 

The boy’s birth date suggests Trenor was about three months pregnant when charged with killing her daughter.

A fisherman found Sawyers’ decomposed body inside a storage trunk washed ashore a small West Galveston Bay island Oct. 29.

A forensic artist created a sketch of what the toddler might have looked like, and the international broadcast of the drawing led Sawyers’ paternal grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, to call Galveston CrimeStoppers.

Trenor later told investigators that she and Zeigler, beat, suffocated and drowned the toddler in their Spring home, according to an arrest affidavit.

They then hid Sawyers’ body in a storage shed for one to two months before tossing the storage bin, with the body inside, over the Galveston Causeway, the affidavit says.

This story is available through KHOU, Ch. 11's partnership with The Galveston County Daily News.

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