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A dad pled not guilty in Riverside Friday to trekking around the country with his dead child.
A Riverside man serving time for killing his infant son and moving around nationwide with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.
Prosecutors contend that Jason Hann stuffed 2-month-old Montana Hann's corpse into a trash bag in 2001 then kept it in trailers and motorhomes for nine months as he and his girlfriend went from state to state doing odd jobs.
The body was finally found in an Arkansas storage facility.
Hann, 34, pleaded not guilty in Indio Superior Court to murder and assaulting a child causing great bodily injury after being extradited from Kentucky, where he was serving time for killing his 6-week-old son 10 years ago.
Authorities said Hann had moved around with the boy's body for a year and a half.
Prosecutors in Riverside County were reportedly not sure if they would go after the death penalty, according to a spokesman with the district attorney's office.
Hann and the children's mother, Krissy Lynn Werntz, 29, were indicted by a Riverside County grand jury two months ago. Werntz previously pleaded not guilty.
A declaration in support for an arrest warrant claimed Hann informed a Maine detective that he lost his temper and hit the girl in the head on Feb. 10, 2001, while the couple was living at a trailer park in Desert Hot Springs east of Los Angeles.
"Jason decided to keep Montana in a trash bag so they could keep her with them," according to a court declaration.
The couple eventually came to Arkansas and left the body in another trailer at a storage facility with the intent to return, the declaration said, citing Werntz.
The couple missed rental payments, however, and the managers sold their property. In February 2002, a man who purchased the trailer found the girl's decomposed body wrapped in plastic bags, according to authorities.
The couple was arrested two months later in Maine.
Hann informed a Maine detective he caused the death of his infant son Jason at a Shelburne, Vt., campground in 1999, the court declaration said.
"They kept the baby's remains inside a bowling ball bag and traveled the country with him for the next 18 months" before leaving it in a storage container in Lake Havasu, Ariz., when their daughter was born, according to the declaration.
In 2006, Hann pled guilty to second-degree murder in Vermont and was sentenced to serve 27 to 30 years at a prison in Kentucky.
Unfortunately, a pair of children suffered at the hands of two parents who should have never had children in first place.
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