Brianna Williams, the Florida mother who sobbed uncontrollably when she reported her 5-year-old daughter missing in 2019, has pleaded guilty in the girl’s brutal death.
On Thursday, former Naval Petty Officer 1st Class Brianna Williams pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Taylor Rose Williams, FirstCoastNews reported.
She had originally been charged with aggravated child abuse, two counts of child neglect, lying to police and tampering with evidence.
She had not been charged with murder before Thursday, Action News Jax reported.
Authorities said Williams had “tortured, maliciously punished or caged” Taylor in the 6 months before she went missing, court records show.
“The apartment of Brianna Williams was thoroughly searched, photographed and evidence was collected,” District Attorney Lauren Anderson said in court Thursday. “Obvious signs of neglect and abuse were observed including soiled children’s clothing, soiled carpeting, blood and along with partially empty soup and fruit cans that had a tiny hole cut in them.”
Williams had used her computer to search for information about starvation and malnourishment, prosecutors said in court Thursday, News4Jax reported.
Williams had reported Taylor missing from their apartment in Jacksonville on Nov. 6, 2019, prompting authorities to launch a massive search for the little girl.
“As our community has shown over the past few days, there’s a lot of love for Taylor here. Even those who have never even met her — and we want you to know that we will do anything we can to bring her home,” former FBI Jacksonville Assistant Director Rachel Rojas s told Action News Jax at the time.
Bodycam footage released by police showed a highly distraught Williams crying and shaking as she told an officer that Taylor was nowhere to be found, Al.com reported.
On Thursday in court, Williams appeared “emotionless,” FirstCoastNews reported.
On Nov. 6, 2019, she told the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office that she woke up and found the back door unlocked with Taylor nowhere to be found.
A week later, Taylor’s badly decomposed body was found in a rural area of Alabama stuffed in a garbage bag and buried in a shallow grave, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said she had died months before her remains were found.
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Guess she didn’t attend her Navy sensitivity training, woke training classes and how to be a good Navy unwed, single mother classes.
Death for this monster…
she’s a monster that need to be put in jail and throw away the key just like she caged and tortured her daughter. If she didn’t want the child she could of giving her up for adoption. I’m 100% positive a good family would love to have her. She’s a heartless criminal doesn’t deserve any mercy for what she did.