An ailing Atlanta mother who slowly cooked her two young sons alive in an oven and then sent gruesome footage of their bodies to their father has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison.
Police said Lamora Williams “deliberately” stuffed her two young sons, Keyonte Penn, 2, and Jakarta Williams, 1, into an oven at her home in October 2017. He reportedly turned on the switch and killed both of them. They found the boys dead from severe burns.
The then 24-year-old single mother lied to the dispatcher, claiming when she returned home her children were dead and their caregiver was missing.
“When I came into the house, the stove was over the heads of my son and my youngest son, and my other son was lying on the floor with his brains out,” Williams said in a horrifying photo. said in a 911 call.
“Please tell me. I don't want to be locked up because this is not my fault. I was just coming home from work,” she continued. according to law and crime.
Ms Williams also called the boys' father, Jameel Penn, and showed him live video of the gruesome crime scene, which included the children lying lifeless on the floor. He frantically called 911 at about the same time as the children's mother.
“It was like a real horror movie,'' says the father. he told WSB-TV a few days later.. “It was Friday the 13th.”
Williams had maintained his innocence and maintained his innocence.
But a jury on Friday found her guilty of 14 charges, including felony murder, child abuse and making false statements, and sentenced her to life in prison without parole and 35 years in prison. According to Fox 5 Atlanta.
Williams' mother, Brenda Williams, said her daughter had a long history of mental illness and believed she “lashed out” after her breakup with Penn. She was placed on suicide watch and detained.
Williams' sister Tabitha Hollingsworth previously told WSB-TV that the children's deaths were preventable.
“This was something we saw as something that could happen,” Hollingsworth said in 2017. “She had problems since she was a baby. Problems that her mother tried to deal with with georgia”
