HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia mother will spend years in prison for the 2018 drowning death of her 16-month-old son.
Madison Lee Stewart, now 22-years-old, was arrested and charged with murder in January 2018, after her son was found dead in a bathtub in her Houston County home.
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When officers asked Stewart, a “generic question, ‘Tell me what happened here’ ... basically, she told them she got stressed out and drowned her baby,” Houston County sheriff’s Capt. Randall Banks told the Macon Telegraph.
At first, she told Warner Robins police the boy, whose name was Hunter Sebastian Stewart, drowned while she was bathing him, sheriff’s investigator Sgt. Justin Heath Collins said.
Later, when Collins interviewed her at the police station, he said Stewart described a different series of events: She woke up angry that her child was crying, she put in the bathtub stopper and waited for the bathtub to fill, and held the child face down until he quit moving.
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“The circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart,” the arrest warrant said, according to the Telegraph.
On Thursday, Stewart was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, according to WGXA-TV.
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