A 22 year old mother, Deasia Watkins, who admitted to beheading her three-month-old baby daughter, has been jailed for at least 15 years.
Deasia Watkins, from Ohio, pleaded guilty to murder over the gruesome March 2015 death of infant Jayniah Watkins.
The court had heard how the deranged killer had placed the knife in the dead child’s hand to make cops think her daughter had slaughtered herself.
Watkins, who has been described as ‘mentally-ill’ by her lawyer, had told a judge that she loved her daughter very much.
Watkins previously had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to an aggravated murder charge.
She was ordered to have psychiatric treatment and later found competent to stand trial
Court records say she had been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis, and her attorney, Norm Aubin, said that she is taking medication for the condition.
He said:
“Nobody is arguing that she was not mentally ill – everybody agrees she was.
“It’s just whether she knew at the time it was going on, that it was wrong.
“This case is tragic.”
Aubin said Watkins is still mentally ill, but in remission.
Police responding to a 911 call on March 16, 2015, found the decapitated baby on the kitchen counter in the home of an aunt who was temporarily caring for the child.
The baby had been stabbed several times with a large chef’s knife
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