The child’s siblings gave a chilling account of the abuse she faced during her last days.
A mother could possibly face the death penalty for allegedly stomping her 7-year-old daughter to death after the girl spilled her cereal.
Naikishia Williams, 32, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for the April 28 death of her daughter, Nia Williams, in Riviera Beach, a city in Palm Beach County, Florida.
The mother was indicted in June, but prosecutors argued this week that the accusations against her qualify for capital punishment. It comes after an evil dad’s incest secret was hidden in a family photo before all seven were killed in a massacre.
According to the prosecution, Williams was “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel,” and Williams killed her daughter “in a cold, calculated, and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.”
Other factors that could lead to the death penalty are the fact that Nia was under 12 years old when she died, and Williams “stood in a position of familial or custodial authority over the victim.”
An eight-page probable cause affidavit detailed not only the circumstances of Nia’s death, but also the instability of her life, including how her mother allegedly left her behind at the hospital after giving birth to her.
Nia was placed in foster care for six months before being placed in the case of Rebecca Finely and her daughter, Whytni Walker, who had been caring for Williams’ other three children.
For the next few years, Walker and Finley had custody of the children on and off; however, when Williams had custody, Nia would suffer severe injuries, according to the affidavit.
Nia was taken to the hospital in April 2021 for a broken right femur and a laceration to the back of her head.
The girl’s mother allegedly never had the staples removed from the back of Nia’s head, and her skin began to grow over them.
In September of that year, Nia had a broken arm, said police. In 2022, the girl was treated for “multiple burn marks from boiling water,” according to the complaint.
Williams was reunited with her children in 2023 after completing a parenting program, said police. Finey said the mother was a drug addict who would take out her frustrations on the children, with Nia getting the “brunt” of it.
Nia’s teachers told investigators that she had missed about 50 days during the 2024-2025 school year. When the child did come to school, she usually had dirty clothes, according to the affidavit.
Despite this, her teachers described her as “brilliant and sweet.”
School officials called Williams to share their concerns about Nia, but the mother never answered. Three days before her death, Nia came to school on April 28, appearing “very sick,” said police.
The child complained of severe stomach pain, vomited, and said she was “very cold.”
Nia was taken to the nurse’s office, but couldn’t receive treatment because her mother never signed the parental consent form, nor did she answer phone calls to come pick her child up, said police.
Nia’s siblings were also interviewed, with one of them telling detectives that the girl had been sick all weekend after coming home from school.
They said her vomit was “black in color,” and she couldn’t eat because of how bad her stomach was hurting, according to the affidavit.
The other children explained how Nia got in trouble a few days before her death because she didn’t clean up her spilled cereal. Williams allegedly became upset and made Nia lie on the ground while she stomped the child on her stomach several times, “like you stomp an ant.”
After the beating, Williams forced Nia to “clean the toilet, shower, kitchen sink, and straighten up the couch,” according to the affidavit.
On the day of Nia’s death, her mother reportedly woke her up around 7 a.m. and made her eat; however, later that day, around 4 p.m., Nia’s sister went to check on her and found her with “her eyes open and barely breathing,” but Williams allegedly waited four hours before calling 911, said police.
Williams allegedly told paramedics that Nia might have overdosed on medicine, so she was given Narcan, but doctors later determined there was no medicine in her system. Instead, the child was suffering from a lacerated liver and was in renal failure.
Her large intestines were detached from her abdomen and “half of her body’s blood supply was in her stomach,” read the complaint.
Nia was pronounced dead around 11:15 p.m. on April 28, and her death was ruled a homicide.
The girl was described as a “fashionista” who loved to wear makeup by Finley and Walker after Williams’ first hearing.
“She should have been in jail a long time ago,” Finley said of Williams while speaking to WPTV, adding that Williams “caused the death” and it was “definitely abuse.”
Finley said she reached out to Florida’s Department of Children and Families two weeks before NIa’s death because the child was “very malnourished.”
Finley said she was frustrated that nothing had been done to stop Williams from allegedly hurting Nia.
“There wasn’t one person who was not aware of this young lady being a dangerous mother,” she said.
Walker and Finley have made it their mission to get justice for Nia. “We can never get her smile back,” said Walker. “We can never talk to her again.”
Williams is expected to be back in court on August 13.
It comes after a chilling map revealed the most dangerous US states to live in.
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