By Peter Martinez Woman arrested in Quawan Charles case
A Louisiana woman was charged Tuesday in connection to the death of Quawan Bobby Charles, a Black teen whose body was found in a sugar cane field in November. Janet Irvin, 37, faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and failure to report a missing child, according to the Iberia Parish Sheriff s Office.
The 15-year-old was allegedly picked up outside of his father s Baldwin, Louisiana, home on October 30 by two people, who Charles family has said were Irvin and her 17-year-old son. Charles parents said that at the time, they didn t know the woman or her son and never consented to him leaving with them.
New audio has surfaced, raising more questions about what happened leading up to the controversial death of teenager Quawan Charles.
According to this exclusive story from CBS This Morning, attorneys for Quawan s family believe that audio recordings of Janet Irvin, allegedly the last woman to see Charles alive, implicates her in the death of the south Louisiana teenager.
Charles was found dead in a sugar cane field on November 3, 30 minutes away from his home. He reportedly went missing on October 30. Surveillance footage appears to show Janet Irvin picking up Charles at his father s house in Baldwin on the day he went missing. She confirmed to a private investigator that she did indeed pick up Quawan and also admitted that she did not call police right after she realized Quawan Charles had run away from her home.
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BALDWIN, LOUISIANA: Attorneys for the family of Quawan Charles, 15, say that a new audio implicates Janet Irvin who was allegedly the last person to see Charles alive in the teenager s death. Quawan disappeared on October 30,2020, with his body being found a few days later on November 3 in a sugar cane field, around 30 minutes from his house. His family s lawyers say the new audio, which was obtained by CBS This Morning , features Irvin admitting to a private investigator that she did not call the police right after she realized that Charles had run away from her home.
A new audio recording sheds more light on the death of Quawan Charles, a 15-year-old Black teen who was found dead in a shallow Louisiana marsh with his face mutilated.
Janet Irvin, a white woman who was one of the last people to see Charles alive, can be heard in the recording telling a private investigator that she failed to immediately call police when she realized the teen had disappeared from her home.
“Yes I should have called the cops. I should have went further,” Irvin told the investigator, who was hired by attorneys representing Charles’ family.
Janet Lynn Irvin. (Photo: Lafayette County, Louisiana jail)