The jury found Lewis guilty of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, and she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“Word for word,” A.J. started a new chapter away from the spotlight after the trial. He was adopted by a loving couple, given a new name, and quietly vanished from the spotlight.
He also wrote “She did” and “too bad” on the left side of the sketch, which he explained meant his sister “died” and that it was “scary.”
A.J., 24, told the Daily Mail that he was not “coached or anything like that” for the trial and only discovered “later on in my teenager years” that his testimony had decided his mother’s fate.
“I just told them exactly what I saw word for word,” he said, adding that as a child he was “really, really nervous…Having all those people looking at you and all that.
But I was just glad it was over.” Since that tragic case, he has never publicly discussed the events that forever changed his life until now.
