Jakayla Ashanti Williams, now 19, has entered an insanity plea in the capital murder case.
Emily Palmer is a Senior Crime Writer at PEOPLE, where she has been a reporter since 2023. Her work has frequently appeared in The New York Times. She has also been published in The Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan Magazine and ELLE Magazine.In August, an Alabama police department received a call from a local hospital, saying a teenager was trying to reclaim her newborn son.
And, according to police, authorities determined quickly that Williams had never gone to the hospital but had instead allegedly left her infant for dead in a dumpster outside a local apartment complex. To be found not guilty under such a claim, the teen’s lawyers must “prove by clear and convincing evidence” that she was suffering from the mental impairment “at the time of the offense” and that she was either “unable to appreciate the nature and quality” of her acts or “unable to appreciate the wrongfulness” of them, according to the law.
During a police interview that day, Williams eventually admitted that after giving birth eleven days earlier, she had not taken her son to the hospital but had instead put her baby – wrapped in a blanket – in the dumpster, police allege. She allegedly claimed the baby was alive when she threw him away.
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