US mum who killed her toddlers by placing them in oven will spend rest of life behind bars

Lamora Williams “knowingly and intentionally” stuffed her two young boys, Ke’Younte Penn, 2, and Ja’Karter Williams, 1, inside of an oven and turned it on in their Atlanta home in October 2017, killing them both, according to police who found the dead boys severely burned.

The then-24-year-old single mum lied to a dispatcher, claiming to have come home to find her kids dead and their caregiver missing, the New York Post reports.

“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 said in a chilling 911 call.

“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,” she continued, according to Law and Crime.

Williams also called the boys’ father, Jameel Penn, and showed him live video of the grisly crime scene — including the children lying lifeless on the floor. He frantically called 911 at roughly the same time as his children’s mother.

“It was like a real horror movie,” the dad told WSB-TV days after. “It was Friday the 13th.”

Williams had pleaded not guilty and maintained her innocence.

However, a jury on Friday found her guilty of 14 charges – including felony murder, cruelty to children and giving false statements – and she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 35 years, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

Williams’ mother, Brenda Williams, had said that her daughter had a long history of mental illness and believed she “snapped” following her break-up with Penn. She was placed on suicide watch in custody.

Williams’s sister Tabitha Hollingsworth previously told WSB TV the children’s deaths were preventable.

“This was something we saw that could possibly happen,” Hollingsworth said in 2017.

“She’s had issues from a baby. Issues my mom tried to address with the state of Georgia.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.