A U.S. Military spouse stationed at Fort Eisenhower in Georgia awaits sentencing after pleading responsible to the 2023 homicide of her toddler son, who was discovered stabbed to demise in a bathe curtain.
April Evalyn Brief, 31, of Fort Eisenhower, pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide, based on a press release Tuesday from Tara M. Lyons, performing U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Georgia.
As a part of the negotiated plea settlement, Brief will serve 20 years in jail, together with substantial monetary penalties and 5 years of supervision after her launch, based on Lyons. There is no such thing as a parole within the federal system.
April Brief pleaded responsible within the deadly stabbing of her toddler at Fort Eisenhower in Augusta, Georgia. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace)
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On the morning of Nov. 15, 2023, at Fort Eisenhower, Brief despatched her husband, a U.S. Military workers sergeant, a sequence of ominous texts with biblical references, based on court docket paperwork.
Involved concerning the cryptic messages, he went to their residence on put up and located their 11-month-old child bleeding from the neck, wrapped in a bathe curtain within the bathtub, based on filings.
The boy was later pronounced lifeless at Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Medical Middle.
The kid was fatally stabbed on the Fort Eisenhower navy set up, previously referred to as Fort Gordon. (Photograph by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Submit by way of Getty Pictures)
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The couple’s two different kids, ages 11 and 6, have been in a close-by bed room on the time of the killing, although Brief allegedly informed them, “don’t come into the bathroom because it might be really scary,” based on court docket paperwork.
Col. Dori Mitchell Franco, a U.S. Military physician, decided the newborn was stabbed and slashed a number of instances within the neck with two totally different knives, one among which was serrated, based on an post-mortem report.
Brief allegedly informed authorities following her arrest that the primary knife was too boring, requiring the second weapon, based on court docket paperwork.
Troopers march at Fort Eisenhower, previously referred to as Fort Gordon, in Augusta, Georgia. (Michael Holahan /The Augusta Chronicle by way of AP)
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“The plea agreement in this disturbing case represents a difficult but appropriate resolution to this tragic and shocking homicide,” Lyons wrote within the assertion.
Brief stays in U.S. Marshals Service custody, and shall be sentenced by U.S. District Courtroom Choose J. Randal Corridor after a pre-sentence investigation by U.S. Probation Providers.
Paul Brown, particular agent in command of FBI Atlanta stated the mom “will now have 20 years to think about her heinous actions.”
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“This plea cannot undo that tragedy and loss, but brings another measure of justice to those who knew and loved the child during his short life,” Brown wrote within the assertion.
