The video plays almost like a made-for-TV movie. But the mother’s grief and hurt are not diminished. No mother should have to spend Mother’s Day in court facing the man who admits to taking away her child forever. (Video link below.)
Man admits killing son, gets out of prison – CNN.com
CNN — A New Jersey judge approved a plea deal Friday that will set free a man who admitted murdering his 2-year-old son 17 years ago.Curtis Williams confessed to beating son Curtis McCoy to death, after claiming for 16 years to have lost the child while shopping in Newark.
Williams told prosecutors where he buried the body in exchange for a plea deal that would set him free with time served — only 20 months in prison.
When two days of digging in early April of this year failed to turn up the body, the victims mother, La Shawn McCoy, hoped the plea deal would not stand.
McCoy expressed her anger and disdain toward Williams in court Friday morning.
“[You knew] all the time that you did not have him. That you had killed him,” she said, in tears.
“I used that to comfort me, thinking that you had him and you were taking care of him, and you just didnt want to give him back. Now what do I have? What do I have to ease this pain? Nothing,” she said. Watch the grieving mother scold her childs killer.