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PublishedDecember 20, 2022
Trefethen sentenced to 47 years in prison
Trefethen was found guilty on Oct. 18 after a two-week trial. Her conviction carried a possible sentence of 25 years to life in state prison.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2022
Jury finds Trefethen guilty
In a speedy conclusion to the murder trial of Jessica Trefethen, defense attorney called no witnesses but asked jurors to consider whether ex-husband Jason Trefethen or her other children caused the death of 3-year-old Maddox Williams.
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PublishedOctober 17, 2022
Medical examiner: Cause of death was battered child syndrome
As a result of the autopsy, the medical examiner testified that the boy had a transected pancreas, a mesentery tear in the small bowel of the child and fractures to the L2 and L3 vertebrae that he said were consistent with a tremendous car accident, a fall from a great height or perhaps someone stomping on the child.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2022
Trefethen trial continued to next week
Prosecutors called several witnesses during the first week of the trial.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2022
Jury hears interview tapes during day three of Trefethen trial
On the tapes, Jessica Trefethen gave her account of the events leading up to her son's death June 20, 2021.
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PublishedOctober 6, 2022
Grandmother testifies toddler’s mother mistreated him because ‘he looked too much like his father’
Sitting in the back of the hospital room the night the child died, Sherry Johnson, Jessica Trefethen's mother, said she noticed bruises all over Maddox's body.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2022
Teenager describes mother’s abuse in murder trial
Jessica Trefethen is charged with “depraved indifference murder" in her 3-year-old son Maddox’s death.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
Mother pleads not guilty to concealing daughter’s whereabouts
Last summer police searched for Jessica Trefethen, who was accused of murdering her son in June. Her mother, Sherry Johnson, pleaded not guilty to knowingly misleading police during the search for her daughter.
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PublishedJune 28, 2021
Judge denies bail for father to attend child’s funeral
In January 2020, police say Andrew Williams was carrying child while committing a daytime residential burglary in Rockland.
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PublishedJune 25, 2021
State brings in outside agency to help DHHS investigate deaths of four children in past month
With Maine’s child welfare system under scrutiny again, DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew says the decision to engage Casey Family Programs is a ‘call to action.’
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