Honoring Alayah. Supporting Healing. Raising Awareness.
Alayah’s life mattered.
This page honors her memory, supports her family, and encourages compassion and healing.
Immediate Needs
The family is currently facing overwhelming emotional and financial hardship in the wake of this tragedy.
Support will help with:
- funeral expenses
- legal
- CPS-related costs
- medical needs
- travel expenses
- helping provide care and stability for Alayah’s older sister during this difficult transition.
Every donation, prayer, and kind word means more than we can express.
Our Heart Behind This Page
This page was created to honor her memory, support her family during unimaginable grief, and encourage compassion in the midst of tragedy.
We also hope to raise awareness about child safety, family violence, and the importance of protecting vulnerable children.
In a time when social media can quickly become filled with anger and judgment, we want this space to be different. We want it to be a place of love, remembrance, healing, prayer, and support.
Tiny feet. Eternal impact.
Understanding the Family Dynamic
Alana and Jayeshaun shared a long history together and have a young child together. Though they had separated for a period of time and both moved on to other relationships, they later reconnected.
While Jayeshaun was not Alayah’s biological father, he had been present since before her birth and was part of her daily life.
Family relationships can be deeply complicated, especially when children, co-parenting, reconciliation, and past history are involved. From the outside, people often assume situations are simple when they are not.
This page is not about excusing harm or avoiding accountability. It is about approaching unimaginable tragedy with compassion, truth, and humanity.
Some Questions that has been asked?
What Happened to Alayah?
As you have read, Alayah Hogan was critically injured while in the care of Jayeshaun in Mesquite, Texas.
First responders found Alayah unresponsive, and she was transported to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, where she was later declared brain dead.
Medical reports described severe injuries, and the Dallas County medical examiner ruled her death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma. Spencer has been charged with capital murder.
As this is an active criminal case, all individuals charged are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
What remains undeniable is this: Alayah was precious, deeply loved, and deserved safety and protection.
Choosing Compassion Over Judgment
In the wake of tragedy, social media can quickly become filled with assumptions and hurtful comments. We believe compassion matters, especially when families are grieving.
Why was he around if there was a protective order?
Family relationships and co-parenting situations can be deeply complicated, especially when there is a long history, shared children, emotional ties, and attempts at reconciliation.
Protective orders do not always immediately end contact between individuals, and situations involving family violence are often far more complex than they may appear from the outside.
This does not lessen the tragedy of what happened to Alayah. It simply reminds us that real life situations are rarely as simple as social media comments make them seem.
Why are people supporting the mother?
Grief is not a courtroom, and social media is not an investigation. Compassion and accountability can exist together.
We do not have answers about the old injuries, as we learn more we will post on this website.
Right now our family is trying to put the pieces together. We have not taken to social media not because we are hiding, we are trying to grieve, trying to support Alana , put a funeral together and get Alana other daughter with family. You will not see our family bash Jayeshaun, it is not helpful. We will pray that grace is shown the other direction.
This is under investigation, we will walk with Alana all the way through, just as Jayeshaun's family should walk with him.
Our family does ask for you not to contact Alana, she has lost her child and she is trying to put the piece back together for your other daughter. We ask for you to respect that. If you have questions email angelthoughts76@yahoo.com.
What about the injuries mentioned in public reports?
Many people have questions surrounding the medical findings reported publicly. Those details remain part of an active investigation and legal process. Some of these details has not been told to the family, they are finding out online. The family has not received the autopsy report.
At this time, we believe it is important to allow investigators, medical professionals, and the court system to continue their work without spreading assumptions or online harassment.
What we know for certain is that Alayah deserved safety, love, and protection
Are you asking people to ignore what happened?
Absolutely not.
This page exists to honor Alayah’s life, support those grieving her loss, raise awareness about family violence and child safety, and encourage compassion during a heartbreaking situation.
We believe truth, accountability, healing, and compassion can exist together.
We are truly living what has happened, it is taking step by step to understand and figure out how to move forward. We all see these stories and never think it is going to happen in our family, but we are living out right now in the public. We are asking for space.
Why is there a GoFundMe?
Funeral expenses, counseling, time away from work, and crisis-related costs can quickly overwhelm grieving families. Donations help ease some of those burdens.
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