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Teen faces murder charge for killing newborn in trash compactor: ‘It shocks the soul’
Live Action News ^ | August 26, 2023 | Nancy Flanders

Posted on 08/27/2023 3:56:26 PM PDT by Morgana

An 18-year-old mother is facing a capital murder charge in Alabama after she allegedly threw her newborn baby boy into a trash compactor. He was alive at the time.

Police say that after searching an area landfill, Jakayla Williams’ son was found dead in a load of trash. Dothan Police Chief Will Benny told reporters that Williams did not tell her friends or family about what she did after giving birth to the baby boy at home on August 13.

According to Law & Crime, on August 23, her family discovered that she had been pregnant and given birth. She allegedly said that after giving birth, she took her baby to Southeast Health Medical Center, but then the family called the hospital out of concern for the baby. Williams returned to the facility accompanied by a amily member. Williams then told staff that she wanted her son whom she had given birth to, and that she had left her baby with a “red-headed” employee.

Staff then called the police, who began an investigation, including searching video from the hospital surveillance cameras; the footage showed that Williams never went to the hospital with her son. Williams then admitted to the police that she did not want to be a mother because having a baby “cost too much money.” She decided to wrap the baby in a blanket and put him in the dumpster at an apartment building.

Police searched the dumpster, which had a trash compactor, and found the baby boy’s body wrapped in a mattress protector which was put inside a duffel bag and zipped closed.

“It is absolutely shocking. In all my years of law enforcement, I’ve never heard of anything so horrific as this,” said Chief William Benny. “It shocks the mind. It shocks the soul. I don’t even really know what else to say about it.”

WSFA12 reported that Alabama, as with every state, has a Safe Haven law and that Williams could have brought her son to Southeast Health where she could have safely and anonymously surrendered him, no questions asked. Alabama’s Safe Haven Law allows infants up to 45 days old (previously three days old) to be surrendered, including in Safe Haven Baby Boxes at fire stations.

Williams is being held without bail at the Dothan City Jail and prosecutors have not determined if they will seek the death penalty.


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KEYWORDS: prolife
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To: joma89

She won’t even do 2 frikkin’ years. Because she’s black and stupid and stuff.


21 posted on 08/27/2023 4:36:40 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: Salvey

Prayers up.


22 posted on 08/27/2023 4:39:20 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Morgana

Savage.


23 posted on 08/27/2023 4:46:16 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The dead eyes look.

This sort of crime is demonic.


24 posted on 08/27/2023 5:02:38 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: JustTheTruth

You hit that right. The amendment to be voted on in Ohio will be up to birth. What is the difference in a day before or a day after?


25 posted on 08/27/2023 5:09:31 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Morgana

26 posted on 08/27/2023 5:15:37 PM PDT by Bobalu (The political prosecution of Donald Trump marks the official end of US democracy.)
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To: Jyotishi

I looked it up. I saw, Warrior, courageous, highly trustworthy. I say somebody smoked too much dope while spilling that one on-line.


27 posted on 08/27/2023 5:21:11 PM PDT by healy61 (.)
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To: skr

The irony in this tragedy is this: we live in a rural area of the south. I taught at a small elementary school which is about 95% black. I have quite a few very good black friends. I know for a fact that black families raise their nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and children who aren’t related. She had so many loving choices, but she chose a torturous, slow death. Shameful.


28 posted on 08/27/2023 5:22:24 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: healy61

I looked it up here:

https://www.names.org/n/jakayla/about


29 posted on 08/27/2023 5:38:37 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Morgana

I didn’t think I needed to look even before I saw the name.


30 posted on 08/27/2023 5:48:12 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Clarancebeaks

It is indeed an Amish name, given to a feral subhuman animal who should be spayed and thrown into a dark cell for the rest of her misbegotten life. She threw a live baby into a trash compactor because she was not up to the consequences of her unprotected fornication. There were many other choices, but she went with what was the easiest at hand.


31 posted on 08/27/2023 5:50:56 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Mariner

Yes. After the fair trial.

Remember to always say after the fair trial.


32 posted on 08/27/2023 6:02:02 PM PDT by OKSooner (Maybe Quix was right about some stuff. Pronouns=(XY, XYim, XY's))
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To: Morgana

Shes a female. She will play the vagina card. She (her lawyer) will blame everything/everyone else, and being “young and dumb and scared” will play the victim card. She will cry. Some tradcon simp or feminist judge (or simp/feminist jury) will let her walk.

I cite: Casey Anthony. QED

FLIPPIN GYNOCDNTRIC COUNTRY.


33 posted on 08/27/2023 6:06:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

Her makeup and hair (and photo-shopping) skills are on point. Priorities...

34 posted on 08/27/2023 7:09:02 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Salvey

Who is “we”?


35 posted on 08/27/2023 7:11:13 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Bullish

Recent true crime show I saw today had the outcome coda that the guilty murderer in the 1990s got 20 years in prison but in some later year it was reduced to 10 and then for some reason to 7 and the culprit is now out of prison.

Like being on a hamster wheel to seek justice against the criminals.


36 posted on 08/27/2023 8:32:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: simpson96

They should just call it fake shop.....bears no resemblance to her at all.


37 posted on 08/27/2023 8:36:09 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Morgana

Sociopath. There’s an epidemic of them in today’s culture.


38 posted on 08/27/2023 10:33:56 PM PDT by dragonblustar (As in the days of Noah….)
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To: Morgana

She allegedly threw her newborn baby boy into a trash compactor. He was alive at the time.

Memo to Joe Biden: It isn’t racism that causes things like
that to happen.

The maggot is always pimping the race card for a vote he’s the biggest turd in D.C..


39 posted on 08/28/2023 8:54:35 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: skr

It’s their culture...


40 posted on 08/28/2023 10:07:24 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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