She states that she fed Braylan while he was in his car seat, located in the backseat of the car. In her statement, she indicated that Braylan ate between thirty to fifty milliliters and then fell back asleep. Foxworth confirmed that Williams and J. Williams and J. After leaving the restaurant, they drove around to find a place to eat dinner. They picked up something for J. All the while, Braylan continued to sleep in his car seat. After Williams ate her dinner, she recalled that she and J.
After the movie, Williams went into her bedroom and continued to watch television until J. While J. She ran outside and called The operator told her to perform CPR on Braylan, so she ran back inside the house and handed the phone to J. She then called her mother on another phone. When her mother arrived, Williams told her mother to go inside and check on J.
The State entered J. Williams denied having had an argument with J. The trial court admitted the videotaped interview into evidence, and the State played it for the jury. She explained that as she burped Braylan, she held him under his neck while he was sitting on her knees. Williams states that the only time she could have hurt him was during this incident while she was burping Braylan.
After that event happened, Williams asked J. And, I asked my husband, and my husband checked on him. Officer Mark Frazier responded to the call. The trial court admitted the video into evidence and played it for the jury. During the video, Williams is shown sitting in the road as a firefighter brings Braylan to the ambulance. She explained to the jury that she had only seen that type of neck break result from major accidents, like vehicular or plane accidents.
She testified it would take considerable force to break the neck of a five-week-old baby in such a manner. She did not testify that the break could not have been caused in the manner that Williams described the burping incident. McClain also found evidence of seven old rib fractures, which she believed were probably weeks old. McClain testified that she did not believe these rib fractures resulted from CPR, but offered no other opinion as to these findings.
She identified evidence of healing around the spinal canal, which usually takes about three days to present. Given this evidence, Dr. McClain testified that she found no evidence of pneumonia, meningitis, or other problems with the lungs, but the autopsy did reveal that the lungs contained marked congestion, which Dr.
McClain explained indicates a backup of blood. McClain testified that at the time of the autopsy Braylan was not suffering from an upper respiratory tract infection, but admitted she could not testify that he was not suffering with this infection four days prior to his death.
The Standard of Review We apply the Jackson v. Virginia legal-sufficiency standard to determine the sufficiency of the evidence to support each element of a criminal offense that the State is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Brooks v. We evaluate all the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution to determine whether any rational trier of fact could find the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
Jackson v. Hooper, S. The Court of Criminal Appeals has made it clear that we must review circumstantial evidence of intent with the same scrutiny as other elements of an offense. Laster v. Williams v. Therefore, the State had to prove not only that Williams intentionally or knowingly failed to provide medical care, but also that she intentionally or knowingly caused the resulting injuries to Braylan by failing to obtain medical care.
See Johnston v. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result.
When the State charges a defendant with conduct by omission, proof that the defendant knowingly caused the result requires evidence that the defendant had a reasonably certain awareness that the injury would have been prevented had the defendant performed the act that was omitted.
Patterson v. State, 46 S. Hart v. State, 89 S. Further, we conclude that there is no evidence in the record that Williams was aware that her failure to seek medical care for Braylan was reasonably certain to cause him serious bodily injury and that his injury would have been prevented had she sought such care. The undisputed evidence in the record is that two pediatricians examined Braylan and testified that they believed that Williams had been properly taking care of him.
McConnell examined Braylan on February 11 and found that he was doing well. She specifically noted that Braylan had no injuries, had gained weight, and appeared to be growing. When Braylan showed symptoms that he was getting sick on March 8, Williams took him to see his pediatrician.
Begum found that Braylan had nasal congestion, sneezing, a red eye, but no fever. She diagnosed Braylan with an upper respiratory infection and an eye infection, which she testified were very common in combination with upper respiratory symptoms.
After seeking medical care for Braylan for his respiratory illness, just two days later, Williams took Braylan to the WIC office on March 10 and indicated that she was concerned he was not getting enough to eat.
The supervisor of the WIC office testified that a clerk in her office would have weighed and measured Braylan that day, and his weight was noted to be within the acceptable range. She testified that had the clerk noticed any types of bruise marks or other indication of injury, the clerk would have reported that to her; however, nothing had been reported to her.
Williams then took Braylan to see J. Ted Williams, a college friend, testified that after having observed Williams with Braylan, he believed that she loved Braylan. Allison Kay testified that she knew J. Amy Bryan testified that she and Williams had been best friends and that Williams was very happy that she was pregnant. Detective Fannin recalled that Williams was distraught and crying at the hospital the day Braylan died.
There is no direct or circumstantial evidence that Williams intended Braylan to suffer serious bodily injury. The evidence indicates the opposite—that Williams desired Braylan to be well.
Other than the burping incident, the State offered no other evidence to explain any other signs of injury to Braylan or the person responsible. The State offered no evidence to show that Williams knew with reasonable certainty that Braylan was suffering from a life-threatening injury that needed immediate treatment.
Immediately after the burping incident, Williams was concerned that Braylan had been injured, so she handed Braylan to J. Williams indicated that J. A number of witnesses testified that their concerns were alleviated when they found out that a doctor had recently examined Braylan. While emergency personnel were trying to resuscitate Braylan, Williams made a number of statements indicating intense regret. Williams exclaimed that this was all her fault because she did not take Braylan to the doctor.
It does not indicate what Williams knew immediately after the burping incident or even what she knew as Braylan began to show various symptoms that, in hindsight, were attributable to his injury. Thus, without other evidence showing that Williams knew earlier in the day that her failure to seek immediate medical care for Braylan was reasonably certain to cause him to suffer serious injury or death, the statements Williams made after she was aware of the seriousness of his condition do not constitute legally sufficient proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Williams knowingly, much less intentionally, caused Braylan to suffer serious injury or death by omission.
Although a jury is permitted to draw reasonable conclusions and inferences from the evidence, there is not legally sufficient evidence to allow the jury to reasonably conclude that Williams knowingly or intentionally injured Braylan by deciding not to seek immediate medical treatment for his injury or symptoms he otherwise might have exhibited during the day.
Bigley v. Reckless injury to a child is a lesser-included offense of intentional and knowing injury to a child. Wortham v. Code Crim. She had identified herself as a pregnant woman with a due date of Sept. Investigators said they now believe Williams left the child in the toilet to drown and didn't seek medical care.
She has been charged with endangering a child. Williams is currently out on parole after serving five years of a year sentence for her hand in the violent death of her 1-month-son. Williams' son, Braylon Hood, died due to blunt force injuries, bruises and an injured spinal canal, police said. He was left in his car seat for 11 hours, without being fed or having his diaper changed, while Williams and Braylon's father, Jimmie Hood, watched a movie in their home, authorities said.
He suffered a broken neck after Williams held him by the neck while feeding him and Hood laid him on his leg with his head hanging over. Click to expand Mom claims not knowing about birth after baby found in toilet The woman told officers she didn't know she was pregnant, but police found an earlier application for SNAP on which she wrote her due date.
Conroe mom charged after newborn found in toilet claims she didn't know she was pregnant A Conroe woman on parole for the fatal injury of her prematurely born infant son is Tags denette williams. Ramona the brave Trusted Member.
Wow, just wow. What a shit human being. How anyone can treat a defenseless baby like that, for absolutely no reason, is beyond me. Just leave the damn baby at the fire station. Why is that so hard!! Yeah yeah, I know, benefits! But I've been on welfare and, uh, it's not that much. It doesn't even cover rent. If I didn't want my daughter, a few hundred bucks a month would not be worth the 24 hour job of taking care of a baby.
And you don't get more money for each subsequent kid, either. If people think they're playing the system by keeping kids they don't want, well, then they are really dumb. I think they just don't want to deal with the social consequences and ego blow of people knowing they gave up their kid.
Last edited: Feb 7, She didn't want anything to do with this baby, or any baby, it seems, she got 5 years for murdering her son, she needs to get life for leaving this one in the toilet, she's proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that she's dangerous to babies. Never let her out again but we all know how that goes, babies count for very little in the so-called justice system. From December 16, A Conroe mom convicted two years ago in the death of her infant son received a reduced sentence of 10 years in prison Tuesday after an appellate court decision reversed the original judgment of 15 years.
The 9th Court of Appeals ruled in March for a new punishment hearing in the case against Denette Williams, 27, for a conviction of a lesser included second-degree felony charge of injury to a child.
After review of the trial record, the appellate court found insufficient evidence to support the first-degree felony conviction that rendered the year prison sentence Aug. Williams previously had been found guilty of intentionally or knowingly causing serious bodily injury to her 5-week-old son, Braylan Hood, who was born five weeks premature and weighed only 4 pounds, 9 ounces. Hood received probation on a seven-year prison sentence in December , but his probation was revoked nine months later, according to court records.
Prosecutors used Facebook posts by Hood, who moved to San Antonio, to show he violated the terms and conditions of his probation by traveling outside of the city and failing to avoid contact with minors.
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