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Mom, Cocaine, Perjury, dead kid in Springfield!
Posted by:
FUNdamental
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Date: January 10, 2010 05:54PM
From the Washington Post
A Fairfax County woman was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for perjury after lying repeatedly during the prosecution of her husband in the killing of a 21-month-old boy at the woman's Springfield home day-care center.
Jillian Ahmad Wood, 24, acknowledged leaving the toddler, Myles Simon, with her husband, Mohammad A. Ahmad, while she went in search of cocaine one morning in September 2006. When she arrived at home, Myles was dead of multiple skull fractures and severe blunt force trauma to the abdomen. Ahmad was later charged with murder in the boy's killing.
A jury convicted Ahmad in 2007, and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. But defense attorneys later discovered that Wood, a key prosecution witness, had been arrested with marijuana the night before her husband's trial, and prosecutors had failed to disclose it or charge her. The judge ordered a new trial.
As the second trial approached in April, Wood acknowledged that she had lied on the stand about her actions before Myles's death. Then she made a phone call, which was recorded, to Ahmad in the Fairfax jail seeking $6,000 in exchange for her favorable testimony. Confronted on the witness stand with the recording, she denied it was her.
Prosecutors dropped Wood as a witness and reached a plea deal with her now ex-husband for a 20-year sentence. Prosecutors then charged Wood with two counts of perjury. She pleaded guilty in November.
On Friday, she apologized for lying under oath and said, "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't regret leaving Myles with Mohammad."
Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Williams said Wood's actions "contributed substantially to a miscarriage of justice." He imposed the maximum sentence of 10 years, suspending seven years.
A Fairfax County woman was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for perjury after lying repeatedly during the prosecution of her husband in the killing of a 21-month-old boy at the woman's Springfield home day-care center.
Jillian Ahmad Wood, 24, acknowledged leaving the toddler, Myles Simon, with her husband, Mohammad A. Ahmad, while she went in search of cocaine one morning in September 2006. When she arrived at home, Myles was dead of multiple skull fractures and severe blunt force trauma to the abdomen. Ahmad was later charged with murder in the boy's killing.
A jury convicted Ahmad in 2007, and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. But defense attorneys later discovered that Wood, a key prosecution witness, had been arrested with marijuana the night before her husband's trial, and prosecutors had failed to disclose it or charge her. The judge ordered a new trial.
As the second trial approached in April, Wood acknowledged that she had lied on the stand about her actions before Myles's death. Then she made a phone call, which was recorded, to Ahmad in the Fairfax jail seeking $6,000 in exchange for her favorable testimony. Confronted on the witness stand with the recording, she denied it was her.
Prosecutors dropped Wood as a witness and reached a plea deal with her now ex-husband for a 20-year sentence. Prosecutors then charged Wood with two counts of perjury. She pleaded guilty in November.
On Friday, she apologized for lying under oath and said, "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't regret leaving Myles with Mohammad."
Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Williams said Wood's actions "contributed substantially to a miscarriage of justice." He imposed the maximum sentence of 10 years, suspending seven years.
Re: Mom, Cocaine, Perjury, dead kid in Springfield!
Posted by:
Johnny Walker
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Date: January 10, 2010 06:06PM
Shoulda got the full 10.
Re: Mom, Cocaine, Perjury, dead kid in Springfield!
Posted by:
indanoe
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Date: January 11, 2010 12:17AM
Don't worry skankerella will violate the terms of her probation when she gets out in a couple of years and have to serve the other seven. She hangs with out with other fine upstanding citizens like Justin Strom of Springfield.
Re: Mom, Cocaine, Perjury, dead kid in Springfield!
Posted by:
Elle Diabla
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Date: January 11, 2010 12:22AM
Where's the justice for the kid?????
Everyone involved should be hanged.
Everyone involved should be hanged.