A judge in Atlanta decided on Friday to sentence a mother of three from Georgia who killed her two young boys “by placing them in an oven and turning it on” to life in prison.
Among many other charges, Lamora Williams, 24, was found guilty on two counts of murder for the 2017 deaths of her two sons, Ja’Karter Penn, age one, and Ke’Yaunte Penn, age two, who were killed about an hour apart.
That terrible day, the now-condemned woman dialed 911.
“When I came in, the stove was laying on my son, on my youngest son’s head, and my other son was laid out on the floor with his brains laid out on the floor,” Williams stated to the dispatcher. “I don’t know what to do. I just came home from work.”
Four counts of felony murder, two counts of murder, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of concealing another person’s death, and one count of providing a false statement were among the charges against Williams in February 2018.
Later, she was charged with two counts of first-degree cruelty to children, one count of second-degree cruelty to children, one more crime of aggravated assault, one count of obstructing a law enforcement official, and one count of battery causing serious bodily harm.
According to the defendant, she left all three of her children with a caregiver from noon to 11:30 p.m. that day. When she got home, she discovered that two of her children had passed away while the caregiver was away.
“Can you please help me?” she asked the dispatcher. “Like. Can you please tell me, like, I don’t want to get locked up because this is not my fault? I had just came home from work.”
According to an arrest warrant obtained by the Atlanta Police Department, Williams “knowingly and intentionally” killed the two infants “by placing them in an oven and turning it on” sometime between midnight on October 12, 2017, and 11 p.m. the following day.
Autopsy records state that the boys’ heads were lodged in an overturned oven. Police assertions that the children had been burned were denied by the medical examiner.
According to reports, the medical examiner noted in both autopsy that “these thermal changes appear to be entirely from dry heat and changes from prolonged exposure to heat. It would require an extensive amount of time to get to this degree.”
Williams insisted she was innocent.
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According to a courtroom report by Atlanta-based Fox station, prosecutors maintained the police department’s version of events, which contradicted the defendant’s story in the minds of jurors.
Around the same moment, the boys’ father also dialed 911. Williams hesitated to provide the dispatcher with her address on Howell Place in the West End section of Oakland City.
Williams was found guilty on 14 counts against her on Friday. She was promptly given a life sentence without the chance of release, along with an extra 35 years.
