MUM DROWNED HER 7-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AS PUNISHMENT FOR BEING NAUGHTY - SON TESTIFIES

Amanda Lewis

At first the death of seven year old Adrianna Hutto was simply a horrific tragedy which left her family devastated.

The youngster had drowned in a swimming pool outside the family home.

Her mother Amanda Lewis, 27, said she had been cleaning bugs out of the pool, slipped, fell in and drowned.

Her younger brother AJ had tried to save her but couldn't and screamed for help.

The Sheriff’s Department and crime investigators had no reason to believe the incident was anything but a tragic accident.


But less than an hour later, Amanda’s six year old son AJ started to tell a more sinister story - a story that would lead to a murder trial in which he was key witness against his mother.

While Amanda attended hospital as doctors battled to save her daughter’s life, AJ was in the care of his grandparents - Amanda’s mother’s Brenda Burns and step father Charles “Pa Chuck” Burns.

AJ started to tell them that he had seen his mother drown Adrianna in the pool, using her hand to cover her face and push her underwater.

AJ Hutto

She’d sprayed window cleaner in the living room over the TV and this had made ‘momma mad’.

Brenda and Charles relayed this to the local Sheriff’s Department and they took AJ to be interviewed, all while Adrianna was still alive in hospital.

In the interview AJ spoke clearly saying his mother ‘dunked’ and ‘drowned’ Adrianna – and even put his hand to forehead showing how his mother did it.

AJ told police, "Mama dunked my sister."

Over the next two days Amanda was interviewed three times by the Sheriff’s Dept denying the allegations and even taking a polygraph test, which she later passed.

After a four day trial the jury found Amanda guilty after just two hours of deliberations.

She was given life without parole and an extra sentence for child abuse of 30 years.


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