On Tuesday, four days after she last spoke to her daughter, Wilson was told that her daughter’s death has been ruled a homicide by the Butler County Coroner’s Office.
Her body was found Sunday near the Bolton Water Works Plant off Lick Road in Fairfield, said Officer Doug Day of the Fairfield Police Department. Police are not releasing additional information about the case, including the cause of death, he said.
As Wilson, who hadn’t eaten since Friday night, sat in her Middletown home in the 800 block of 10th Avenue Tuesday night, she had more questions than answers.
She said her daughter, a 2013 Middletown High School graduate, left her home at about 1 p.m. Friday, saying she was going to visit a cousin in Hamilton. But he told police Sims never arrived. Wilson reported her daughter missing to Middletown police at 2:30 p.m. Saturday after she was told her daughter’s 1999 Chevy was found abandoned in a park.
Sims’ purse and other personal belongings were inside the vehicle, according to police records. Wilson told police that she didn’t believe Sims would have left her vehicle unattended. Wilson had suspected her daughter may have gone to see a boyfriend in Colerain Twp., but he said he hadn’t seen Sims in about a week, according to the report.
Wilson said she doesn’t know how or why her daughter was killed.
“Horrible and unbearable” is how she described losing a child.
Sims attended Butler Tech and was studying to be a dental assistant at Miami Jacobs College, her mother said. She had two jobs: a telemarketer and a health aide for the elderly, her mother said. She was expected to graduate in December 2015, her mother said.
“She was one of the good girls,” her mother said while holding Sims’ high school picture.
Then Wilson buried her head.
“You did a real good job raising her,” said Amelia Sudberry, De’Asia’s aunt, who carried food into the house. “You done good, real good.”
Sims’ grandfather, Roy Sims, 66, of Middletown, died Nov. 18. De’Asia leaves behind two brothers, Tyonne Smiley, 12, and Jerimyah Smiley, 8.
De’Asia will be the second child Wilson has buried. About 15 years ago, her 6-month-old son died from major complications, she said.
Wilson said she named De’Asia after a little Middletown girl who died. She loved the name and asked the girl’s mother if she could name her daughter De’Asia.
After her son passed away, Wilson said she became what De’Asia called a “paranoid parent.” That brought a rare smile to her face.
“I always tried to protect her,” she said. “I just wish I could have done something to save her.”
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