Jessica Williams.Photo: The Bangor Daily News via AP
Maddox died that same day. On June 23, officers arrested Williams and charged her with her son’s murder, Maine State Police said in anews release.
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Williams, of Stockton Springs, is being held in the Waldo County jail with bond set at $150,000, PEOPLE confirms. It was not clear whether she had entered a plea, and an attorney for her, Jeff Toothaker, could not immediately be reached for comment.
In a text to a friend after her son died, she wrote, “No I didn’t kill my son,” according to the affidavit.
Speaking to police on the day of her arrest, Williams told them “she had no idea” how her son would have acquired such injuries, except that “he bruised very easily and her kids play wild and crazy,” according to the affidavit.
Williams and the boy’s father, Andrew Williams, split up when Jessica Williams was pregnant with Maddox, and the father hadn’t seen him since April 10, he told police. At the time, he said he spotted bruising on Maddox’s back and a cut over an eye, leading him to take photographs of the injuries “so he wouldn’t get blamed,” wrote detective Hugh Landry in the criminal complaint, reports theBangor Daily News.
Police also spoke to Jason Trefethen, who was identified in the police affidavit as the father of three of Jessica’s five children.
Detective Landry wrote: “I asked Jason if Jessica was abusive towards Maddox and he replied, ‘You’ll have to ask her.'”
Her attorney told theBangor Daily News: “We will be hiring several individuals who are experts in the medical field,” he said. “It’s going to be a fair fight.”
source: people.com
