A mother from Georgia, Lamora Williams has killed her two young boys, two year old Ke-Yaunte Penn and one-year-old Ja’Karter Penn, by deliberately putting them in an oven and turning it on.
Lamora murdered the toddlers in October 2017 and was charged to court on 14 count charges including murder. She has been in custody since facing trial. However the trial court has now sentenced her to life imprisonment.
According to the Police, Lamora, who was then a 24 year old, had called 911 to claim that she met her children dead after she came back from work.
When the police visited her apartment in Atlanta, they saw the boys with horrifying burn marks on their bodies while her third boy who was three years old at the time was unharmed.
Lamora had also claimed to the police that she left the kids with a caretaker and expressed suspicion that the caretaker could have been responsible for their deaths.
However, following a police investigation, it was revealed that Lamora had placed the children in the oven the night before she called 911 with evidence presented before the court to show she deliberately committed the act.
A jury has found her guilty of a myriad of counts against her including murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, concealing the death of another, and giving a false statement.
She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus an additional 35 years.
During the investigation, the children’s father Jameel Penn told the police that Lamora called him on video after killing the children adding that when he saw his motionless children on the ground and realized something wasn’t right and called the police.
‘I just received a call from my child’s mother that my sons are dead in an apartment. ‘She video called me and seeing it, I really think they are dead,” he said
Police investigations also revealed Lamora had a long history of mental illness caused by the death of her father when she was 19 and being a single mother of four as well as her breakup from her husband and the father of the children.