Smart and talented are words that Shashu Battiste uses to describe her daughter, Noni Battiste-Kosoko. Battiste says her daughter wanted to dance and make music and spent a lot of time writing.
Battiste says her daughter had some mental health challenges, but she was not a criminal.
Noni was arrested earlier this year and spent 53 days in jail at the Atlanta City Detention Center for not showing up to court on a misdemeanor charge. On July 11, 2023, she was reportedly found unresponsive in her cell – six days after her 19th birthday.
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