Mother Ruled Fit for Trial in Girl's Death

Woman Accused of Dumping Daughter in Creek

A Prince William County judge accepted a finding Friday that a Manassas area woman charged with leaving her adopted daughter for dead in an icy creek is competent to stand trial.

Authorities said Alfreedia Gregg-Glover lied to police in January when she said her adopted 13-year-old daughter, Alexis "Lexie" Agyepong-Glover, had run away. In fact, police said, Gregg-Glover had dumped her in a Woodbridge area creek, where she was found dead days later.

Lexie's body displayed recent and past injuries, authorities said.

Gregg-Glover, charged with killing and abusing Lexie and lying to police, appeared in Prince William County Circuit Court on Friday after being evaluated by a mental health expert.

Judge Richard B. Potter accepted a report that found Gregg-Glover to be competent to stand trial, and her trial is set for next month.

After the hearing, Gregg-Glover's court-appointed attorney, John V. Notarianni, said she had also been evaluated for her sanity at the time of the alleged offense, but he declined to discuss the results of that evaluation, which he said are shared only with the defense.

He said he planned to proceed with trial July 6.

After Gregg-Glover's arrest, several people who had met Lexie, including neighbors and bus drivers, came forward saying that they had reported to officials on numerous occasions that Lexie appeared to have been abused at home, but that nothing was done to help her.

Several probes have been launched to investigate how police and social services officials handled the abuse complaints. The Washington Post published an account of several such complaints in the two years before Lexie's death.

Several of the probes are continuing, and findings are being withheld because of the ongoing criminal case.

County Police Chief Charlie T. Deane has said that he wants the results of an internal probe of his department's handling of the case to be shared to the fullest extent possible after the trial but that some redactions might be necessary because of confidentiality concerns.

The County Attorney's Office, meanwhile, has said it is unclear whether any of hundreds of pages of documents on Lexie's case from the county's Department of Social Services will be released after the case is concluded.

Some child welfare advocates say the release of certain information on Lexie's case is mandated under federal law, but state and local officials dispute that, citing a different interpretation of the federal law -- the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act -- and the state administrative code, which calls the release optional.