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Jakayla Ashanti Williams has been charged with capital murder after police said she disposed of her newborn infant by placing it an apartment complex's trash bin authorities said. (Source: Dothan Police Department)(WTVY)
By The Associated Press
Published: Aug. 25, 2023 at 8:50 PM CDT
"I've never even heard of something so horrific as this. It shocks the mind. It shocks the soul," Dothan Police Chief Will Benny said at a press conference Thursday.
Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 18, of Dothan is being held without bond on a capital murder charge, court records show.
Police found the remains Thursday after sifting through the contents in the trash bin, which has a compaction mechanism that periodically crushes trash, Benny said. The dumpster was searched by police and they found the remains of a newborn child wrapped in a mattress protector that was in a zipped up duffel bag.
The discovery was made after family members became suspicious of Williams' claims that she dropped the baby off at a hospital and had given it to a "red-headed nurse," Benny said.
The family went to the hospital on Thursday because they wanted to bring the baby home, he said. "The medical center called us because there was no evidence she had ever been at the hospital and dropped any baby off," Benny said.
Police believe she had given birth in her room on the morning of Aug. 13 and placed the infant in the trash the same day.
"She went to an apartment complex on the west side of Dothan and placed a live newborn in a trash compactor," Benny said.
Benny said the teen admitted placing the infant in the bin which was at the back of an apartment complex in Dothan. While being interviewed, she told officers the baby was alive when discarded. According to police, she admitted discarding her child, telling investigators she did not want to be a mother.
Alabama law would have protected Williams had she brought the child to the hospital and would have accepted the baby boy without questions.
Houston County District Attorney Russ Goodman said he has not discussed with his staff whether he would seek the death penalty.
The child's remains have been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for confirmation that those remains are in fact the missing newborn child.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
*Following a bond hearing on Friday, Nov. 3, Houston County judge Benjamin Lewis ordered Jakayla Ashanti Williams to stay in the Houston County Jail without bond.
**Update: DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Six murder suspects in unrelated cases are among those whom Houston County grand jurors indicted in documents made public on Thursday, 23 Feb 2024. Williams was a teen mother who police say tossed her newborn son into a commercial garbage compactor last summer. She faces Capital Murder charges.
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Murdered.
Safe in the arms of God, now. Wee Angel, you found no succor , no compassion, no mercy, but you will be forever loved and remembered here, Sweetheart.
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Jakayla Ashanti Williams has been charged with capital murder after police said she disposed of her newborn infant by placing it an apartment complex's trash bin authorities said. (Source: Dothan Police Department)(WTVY)
By The Associated Press
Published: Aug. 25, 2023 at 8:50 PM CDT
"I've never even heard of something so horrific as this. It shocks the mind. It shocks the soul," Dothan Police Chief Will Benny said at a press conference Thursday.
Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 18, of Dothan is being held without bond on a capital murder charge, court records show.
Police found the remains Thursday after sifting through the contents in the trash bin, which has a compaction mechanism that periodically crushes trash, Benny said. The dumpster was searched by police and they found the remains of a newborn child wrapped in a mattress protector that was in a zipped up duffel bag.
The discovery was made after family members became suspicious of Williams' claims that she dropped the baby off at a hospital and had given it to a "red-headed nurse," Benny said.
The family went to the hospital on Thursday because they wanted to bring the baby home, he said. "The medical center called us because there was no evidence she had ever been at the hospital and dropped any baby off," Benny said.
Police believe she had given birth in her room on the morning of Aug. 13 and placed the infant in the trash the same day.
"She went to an apartment complex on the west side of Dothan and placed a live newborn in a trash compactor," Benny said.
Benny said the teen admitted placing the infant in the bin which was at the back of an apartment complex in Dothan. While being interviewed, she told officers the baby was alive when discarded. According to police, she admitted discarding her child, telling investigators she did not want to be a mother.
Alabama law would have protected Williams had she brought the child to the hospital and would have accepted the baby boy without questions.
Houston County District Attorney Russ Goodman said he has not discussed with his staff whether he would seek the death penalty.
The child's remains have been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for confirmation that those remains are in fact the missing newborn child.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
*Following a bond hearing on Friday, Nov. 3, Houston County judge Benjamin Lewis ordered Jakayla Ashanti Williams to stay in the Houston County Jail without bond.
**Update: DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Six murder suspects in unrelated cases are among those whom Houston County grand jurors indicted in documents made public on Thursday, 23 Feb 2024. Williams was a teen mother who police say tossed her newborn son into a commercial garbage compactor last summer. She faces Capital Murder charges.
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