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She May Have to Take the Stand "For Mommy" a Second Time
July 29, 2008 9:07 AM
She was just a 4 year old child when she saw her mother shot and killed along with a pregnant friend. According to BALTIMORE SUN reporter Melissa Harris, the young child, Jewel Williams, stayed in the apartment for two days following the murders, "caring for her 1 year old stepbrother and trying to treat her mother's wounds with toilet paper and a toy stethoscope." Reporter Harris says when Jewel was 7 years old she took the witness stand, "clutching a doll and a bible and calmly described hugging her mother as the gunman fired." She told the jury she was testifying "FOR MOMMY." Kenneth D. Perry, the man Jewel said killed her mother, was convicted and sentenced to life without parole plus 50 years.
But now, according to the SUN, Perry will be retried because the attorney who originally prosecuted the case did not give his defense lawyers transcripts of several interviews with young Jewel in which she described her mother's killer as wearing a mask, a detail that never came up at the trial. The paper says Perry could be rearraigned as early as today and Jewel, who is now a 14 year old 10th grader, might have to relive the horror of her mother's murder all over again in court. Jewel told Harris; "I'm stronger now, and I'm older and mature enough to go through it...No one wants to go through it again, but I HAVE TO DO WHAT I HAVE TO DO."
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Wow-her proud mom is watching her! What a strong little girl!
Posted by: Hippemom | Jul 29, 2008 10:57:20 AM
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