Lillian Leilani Gill - 4 - missing since March 2002

[Doyle]

The mother of a missing Big Bear City girl has been arrested on charges of murder
http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/articles/2004/02/05/news/latest_news/barrest.txt

[Sable]

Lillian Leilani Gill's Mother - 14 years in prison on charges of voluntary manslaughter, burglary, and willful harm to a child, along with $10,000 in restitution plus 4 years of probation (Lillian was strangled, after which her mother told investigators she was in Italy)

[bykerladi]

http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/articles/2006/12/09/news/tesselaar.txt

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Absolutely,” Tesselaar says when asked if justice has been served with Sharon’s sentence. But what bothers him still is why it took so long for anyone to step forward and admit the child was dead. “We’re talking about a four and a half-year old,” Tesselaar says the day the child’s remains were discovered. “People knew, why wait?”
Sharon Gill admitted to her then-husband John months before she was arrested that she had killed the child, Tesselaar says. John told his parents, and other family members and friends were aware, the detective says. “Why wasn’t the right thing done immediately?” he asks. The case might have been concluded sooner and Lillian’s body discovered so she could have a proper funeral and burial, he says.

Tesselaar says anyone who knew could have called WeTip or sent an anonymous letter. Instead, they all hired lawyers and kept quiet, he says.

Tesselaar says he’s bothered that no one in the family cared enough to report the death of an innocent 4-year-old child. He’s also bothered that if Sharon couldn’t handle Lillian why Sharon didn’t give the child up for adoption. That’s all Sharon had to do, and it might have saved Lillian’s life, Tesselaar says.