Christine Haveford
One of the worst and most unthinkable crimes is a mother taking the lives of her children.
But for two innocent kids, their opportunity to make their way in this world has been cruelly taken away.
Sadly, at the hands of the person whose job was to protect them.
Atlanta mom Lamora Williams, 24, has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder – in connection with the deaths of one-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and two-year-old Ke’Yaunte Penn.
But in a cruel twist the father of the two toddlers has revealed the horrific way he learned that his sons had died.
The boys’ mother contacted him through a video call and showed him their bodies lying on the floor.
‘It was like a real horror movie. It was Friday the 13th,’ said Jameel Penn. ‘When I saw my kid, how I saw my kid, that’s when I knew what was going on.’
Police believe Williams killed her two youngest sons ‘by placing them in an oven and turning it on,’ according to an arrest warrant.
She then burned them alive.
Paramedics say the boys had suffered horrifying burn marks when their bodies were taken from the apartment.
‘I ain’t got no soul no more,’ Penn, the boys’ father, tearfully told WSB-TV during a vigil with friends and family Saturday night.
Penn told reporters his sons were ‘my world, my everything. I’m lost.’
Williams initially told police she found her sons dead after she had left them with a babysitter all day.
But Atlanta police spokesman John Chafee said investigators don’t believe she left them with anyone.
Penn told WXIA-TV he was separated from his children’s mother but he would see his boys on weekends.
‘And she is like, they’re dead. And I’m like, who’s dead?,’ Penn told media.
A few moments later, Williams initiated a video call with Penn. She panned her cellphone camera across the room, revealing a gruesome scene inside her apartment.
‘Every time I close my eyes from now on, that is what I’m going to see,’ Penn said, declining to describe exactly what he witnessed.
Penn said the last time he saw his two toddlers alive was last month.
Williams and Penn also have a 3-year-old son, Jameel Penn Jr, who thankfully was found unharmed in the mother’s apartment.
According to police, the surviving child allegedly saw his mother kill his two younger siblings.
Williams also has a 6-year-old daughter from another relationship. The little girl was found safe and staying with other relatives. She did not witness her half-brothers’ deaths.
Before Lamora Williams committed her terrible crime, she first called her longtime friend Neesa Smith.
Speaking to Atlanta Journal Constitution, Smith recalled that Williams told her, ‘ I can’t do it no more,’ then revealed that her boys were dead.
‘I said, “Call the police, Mora. Just call the police.’
Smith said her friend was going through a hard time and was forced to quit her job a month ago because she could not find a baby sitter for her children.
Williams’ older sister, Tabitha Hollingsworth also added that she had struggled with undiagnozed mental illness from the time she was a young girl.
Their mother, Breanda, had tried to get her help, but Hollingsworth said no one listened to her pleas.
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