Jeremy Tremaine Williams appears in a mugshot released by the Russell County, Ala. Sheriff’s Office.
A man has pleaded not guilty by reason of “mental disease or defect” in murdering and sexually abusing a 5-year-old woman, according to The Ledger-Enquirer. The next step for Jeremy Tremaine Williams, 37, is to undergo a mental analysis.
Prosecutors have alleged that Williams’s co-defendant Kristy Marie Siple, a.k.a. Kristy Hoskins, sold her daughter Kamarie Holland to be raped. The 5-year-old was reported missing on Dec. Thirteen from Columbus, Georgia, but became up lifeless at an deserted house in nearby Russell County, Alabama, where the legal case is being held.
Williams allegedly reported himself sexually abusing the victim’s body after strangling Holland to death.
Williams was arraigned Tuesday on capital homicide fees. If acquitted at the insanity plea, he would cross to an institution for the criminally insane, Russell County Chief Assistant District Attorney Rick Chancey reportedly mentioned.
Circuit Court Judge David Johnson set a tentative trial date for Aug. 19, but mentioned, “Obviously it won’t be able for trial.”
As is standard for insanity pleas, the defense has the weight to turn “by clear and convincing evidence” that Williams may just not perceive “the character and high quality or wrongfulness of his acts.” From Alabama law:
(a) It is an affirmative protection to a prosecution for any crime that, on the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of serious mental disease or defect, was unable to understand the character and high quality or wrongfulness of his acts. Mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a protection.
(b) “Severe mental disease or defect” does not come with an abnormality manifested handiest by repeated prison or otherwise delinquent behavior.
(c) The defendant has the load of proving the protection of insanity by transparent and convincing proof.
Williams faces the death sentence if convicted as charged.
Holland’s mom Siple faces a count of intercourse trafficking for allegedly taking cash for the sexual abuse, and 3 counts of felony homicide with base charges of rape, sodomy, and kidnapping. If convicted, she would face lifestyles in prison without the likelihood of parole.
Kristy Marie Siple.
Siple denied wrongdoing in an interview after her daughter’s loss of life.
“I’m a mommy,” Siple instructed WTVM in a Dec. 15 interview. “I did not don't have anything to do with this. She used to be my existence. I lived for her daily. She used to be my handiest lady. I have Three boys and her.”
Karmarie’s father has had some choice words for Siple, alternatively.
“She’s a monster,” Corey Holland said after preliminary fees. “A real mom protects and would die for her children. Kristy is a monster. My circle of relatives and I can proceed to combat with the loss of shedding our angel Kamarie. We will ask that you proceed to make your news about her and the justice she deserves.”
[Booking photos by the use of Russell County Sheriff’s Office]
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