Victoria Vose, second from right, reads a statement about the death of her three-year-old grandson, Maddox Williams after Jessica Trefethen’s was found guilty for his murder on Tuesday at the Waldo County Courthouse. After Andrew Williams was arrested in March 2021, Maddox was returned to his mother. The boy lived with his father and paternal grandmother, Victoria Vose of Warren, until he was two years old. Maddox was one of four children allegedly killed by a parent last year, prompting a fresh round of scrutiny for the state’s child welfare system and an outside investigation into the deaths. Williams’ father was in jail in the months preceding his death. Neither Jason Trefethen nor Maddox’s father, Andrew Williams, were called to testify. Liam Funte told jurors Monday that Maddox died of battered child syndrome, with the fatal injuries being damage to the pancreas and the boy’s ruptured bowel. Those injuries were inflicted a few hours before he died, he said.įunte rejected the defense’s theory that the injuries could have been caused by a fall off the full-sized trampoline in the yard that Trefethen’s children often played on outside unsupervised. Maddox also was missing three front teeth. The autopsy showed that Maddox suffered a fracture in his lower spine bruises on his arms, legs, belly and head bleeding in his brain a ruptured bowel a split pancreas and other injuries, according to a police affidavit. In deciding whether she was guilty of depraved indifference murder, jurors had to decide whether Trefethen’s conduct was so depraved that she should have known her son could die of the injuries she inflicted. They also had to weigh whether how she treated the child in the hours before his death was so reckless that she was guilty of manslaughter. Those photos showed a smaller-than-average 3½-year-old covered in old and recent bruises.
“I think the gave context to the testimony of Dr. Liam Funte who showed how severe the injuries to Maddox were,” Risler said.
“Some of the most important evidence presented was the testimony of Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr.
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Liam Funte’s testimony was some of the most important evidence in the trial of Jessica Trefethen, found guilty on Tuesday of murdering her three-year-old son, Maddox Williams. Assistant Attorney General John Risler at left tells reporters Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr.
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