Overview
- DeKalb County Superior Court sentenced Sophia Williams on Tuesday to life without the possibility of parole plus 10 years.
- A jury in August found her guilty of malice murder, felony murder, first-degree cruelty to children, and aggravated battery.
- An autopsy determined the boy died from blunt-force trauma to the head and concluded earlier medical care likely would have saved his life.
- Prosecutors said she waited nearly 90 minutes to call 911 and had searched her phone for concussion remedies and coma symptoms.
- Police found the child unresponsive with new and old bruising at the family’s Tregoney Drive apartment, and a 13-year-old reported a severe beating the day before.