After learning that Adrianna was dead, Lewis recalled, “I kissed her, I hugged her.” “I touched her,” Lewis added, “because I knew that it would be the last time, the last time I’d see her.
I knew right then my baby was gone.” At first, authorities thought the girl’s drowning was an accident.
A.J.’s rendition
Unaware that his mother’s destiny was in his little hands, 7-year-old A.J. walked into a courtroom full of strangers six months later.
My sister was submerged by Mama. In a previous police interview, the little boy stated, “My mother got upset because she did something she wasn’t supposed to do, so she threw her in the pool.”
A.J. drew a picture in court that showed him standing a few feet away near a tree, another stick figure floating over the pool, and another person adjacent to the pool.
