Posted at 11:26 a.m., Thursday, February 16, 2006
Schofield soldier indicted in daughter's death
Advertiser Staff
A Schofield Barracks soldier charged last year with beating his 5-year-old daughter to death was indicted yesterday morning on a single count of first-degree murder, according to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court.If convicted, Naeem Williams, 25, faces life in prison or the death penalty. The military charged Williams with murder on July 28 but later transferred the case to the U.S. Attorney's office. Talia's stepmother, Delilah Williams, 21, was charged by criminal complaint on a single count of first-degree murder on July 18.
Talia Williams died July 16, after she was beaten and knocked to the floor of her Wheeler Army Airfield apartment. An autopsy found she died of "inflicted head trauma due to battered child syndrome."
