The US military wife, stationed at Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to the 2023 murder of her young son who was stabbed to death by a shower curtain.
April Everlyn Short, 31, of Fort Eisenhower, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, according to a statement Tuesday from Tara M. Lyons, a US lawyer for the Southern District of Georgia.
As part of a negotiated judicial agreement, Short will serve in the prison for 20 years, in addition to substantial financial punishment after release and five years of oversight. There is no parole in the federal system.
April Short pleaded guilty to a fatal toddler stab wounds at Fort Eisenhower in Augusta, Georgia. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)
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According to court documents, she sent her husband a series of ominous texts with biblical references at Fort Eisenhower on the morning of November 15th, 2023.
Worried about the holy message, he went to their home by mail and found an 11-month-old baby bleeding around his neck and wrapped in shower curtains in the tub.
The boy was later declared dead at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center.
The child was fatally stabbed at a military facility at Fort Eisenhower, formerly known as Fort Gordon. (Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post by Getty Images)
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According to court documents, the couple's two children, ages 11 and 6, were in the nearby bedroom at the time of the murder, but were told “Don't come to the bathroom because it could be really scary.”
US military doctor Colonel Dori Mitchell Franco determined that two different knives stabbed the baby and slashed the neck multiple times, reducing the neck multiple times, according to an autopsy report.
Court documents reportedly told authorities after her arrest that the first knife was too boring and needed a second weapon.
The soldiers marched at Fort Eisenhower, known as Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. (Michael Holahan/Augusta Chronicle via AP)
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“The judicial agreement in this disturbing case represents a difficult but appropriate solution to this tragic and shocking murder,” Lions wrote in a statement.
It is a short site of service custody for the former US s, and is declared by US District Judge J. Randal Hall after a pre-sentence investigation by the US probation service.
Paul Brown, a special agent in charge of FBI Atlanta, said her mother “has been 20 years to think about her vicious behaviour.”
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“This plea cannot revoke that tragedy and loss, but it brings another measure of justice to those who knew and loved the child in his short life,” Brown wrote in a statement.
