Back in October of 2017, a Georgia mom named Lamora Williams (who was a 24-years-old at the time) was arrested after she told police officers that she came home to her dead 2-year-old and 1-year-old.
Lamora claimed to have left her little boys with a babysitter, according to authorities, but it was later determined that this was nothing but a lie.
2-year-old Ke’Yaunte Penn and 1-year-old Ja’Karter Penn were found in Lamora’s Atlanta home with severe burn marks, and investigators figured out that Lamora put her kids in the oven.
She actually called 911 and said in the disturbing call, “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. I don’t know what to do. I just came home from work.”
Lamora also video-called Jameel Penn, the father of the boys, to prove what she did to them. Jameel placed a call to 911 as well, telling the operator, “She video-called me and showed me this, and I seen it. I think they are really dead.”
“It was like a real horror movie. It was Friday the 13th,” Jameel said about her video chat to WSB-TV. “When I saw my kid, how I saw my kid, that’s when I knew what was going on.”
Lamora had signs pointing to her having severe problems, and her family is outraged because they say the system and the state failed her.
“My daughter is a sick person if she did what I think she did,” Lamora’s Mom, Brenda Williams, told CBS affiliate WGCL.
“Mora wasn’t right, she hasn’t been right, and what happened three months ago, that the kids’ father left her, I told him something tragic is going to happen. She’s going to do something to those kids; she’s going to do something to herself.”
Brenda said Lamora struggled with mental illness for years, and Brenda was so concerned she reported Lamora to DFACS. She was hoping she could get custody of Lamora’s kids, as she knew she was “not feeding them” at one point.
Growing up, Lamora worried Brenda by cutting her sister’s doll’s heads off.
Lamora’s sister, Tabitha Hollingworth, said this to CBS46: “She had issues, and the fact that the state failed her, that’s a problem.”
She firmly believes this terrible tragedy could have been avoided. Lamora left her children home alone a lot. She even tried to cut her own wrists.
On Friday, November 15th, a jury found Lamora guilty, and she was convicted of 14 offenses, including murdering her two sons, cruelty to children, and aggravated assault.
She was ultimately sentenced to life without parole in addition to 35 years.
