Posted at 4:02 p.m., Friday, September 8, 2006
Death penalty sought for accused child killer
Advertiser Staff
The U.S. Attorney's office said today that it will seek the death penalty for a Schofield Barracks soldier who is accused of beating to death his 5-year-old daughter in July 2005.Army Spc. Naeem Williams was indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2006 on one count of first-degree murder. He is accused of beating daughter Talia Williams at the Williams' Wheeler Army Airfield apartment July 16, 2005.
Federal authorities said Naeem Williams beat Talia and knocked her to the floor. She was taken by ambulance to a hospital where she died.
An autopsy showed that Talia died of "inflicted head trauma due to battered child syndrome."
