Teen Mom’s Murder Hearing Delayed

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Published: Thu, July 10, 2008 - 5:22 pm
Jessica Taloney
Jessica Taloney
A teenage mother who police say confessed to suffocating her newborn baby, then dumping the infant's body in a trash can was scheduled to be in court Thursday.
Geretha Tyese Lewis, 18, is charged as an adult with capital murder. A hearing to determine whether she'll be granted youthful offender status, which would limit her sentence to a maximum of three years, was postponed because results of a mental evaluation were not ready, according to prosecutors.
It's been nearly a year since Lewis reported her 4-week-old baby, Zarial Lewis, was missing. In July 2007, the infant's mom told police Zarial was kidnapped by two women posing as representatives from an adoption agency.
After a massive search turned up few leads, investigators say the young mom finally admitted to killing the baby herself.
During the preliminary hearing last year, investigators told the court Lewis confessed to suffocating the baby with a plastic bag, then dumping the lifeless body in a trash can at the home she shared with her mom in Prichard. Prosecutors believe the body ended up 70 miles away at a the Allied Waste Landfill in Brewton, but search teams were unable to make a recovery.
The youthful offender hearing is rescheduled for August. A trial date has not yet been set.

She is smiling because she feels she will mess THE SYSTEM over one more again.  Go in her piggy tails act like a child and say hey I didn’t a be a knowing what I wasa doing. She is still a working the system and she thinks it will still work for her.  We have to stand for this child and decide it will not happen.

Posted by sweetnsour on 07/11/08 - 2:08 am • Report Abuse   

I’m with you Sum why is she smiling? Its not my place to judge, god will do that when its her time. There’s NO excuse, excusable enough for this type of crime. If this child had mental issues, surely her folks new long before hand. If she is capable of having a boyfriend and sexual relations then she obviously isn’t all the mentally ill. I think she should be treated as anyone else would who murdered there child. She shouldn’t never see happiness again. but, like everyone else this is my own personall opinion! Killing a helpless child is SENSELESS, and the devils that do it should burn in hell. Insanity is just an easy way out. Anyone can act mentally out there if it came to something like this.

Posted by Mom2AngelBaby on 07/10/08 - 8:01 pm • Report Abuse   

I remember this case it was horrible. And why is she smiling!

Posted by SumOneILove on 07/10/08 - 7:51 pm • Report Abuse   


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