A man has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in Georgia.
In December 2021, Jeremy Williams, 40, was arrested in Alabama and charged with capital murder in connection with the disappearance and death of Kamarie Holland. Reports from WSB indicate that police revealed Hollard’s mother, Kristy Siple, allegedly trafficked her daughter to Williams for money. Prosecutors stated that Williams coerced the child into performing sexual acts before ultimately strangling her.
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Recently, Williams pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder, obstruction of a corpse, knowingly recording the acts, rape, and sodomy. Siple also pleaded guilty to human sex trafficking. Williams was subsequently sentenced to the death penalty on Monday, with no execution date announced as of yet.
On Monday, Circuit Court Judge David Johnson issued a death sentence. Records from the Alabama Department of Corrections indicated that Williams was being transferred to Holman Correctional Facility, where the state’s death row inmates are housed, on Tuesday.
Before Kamarie’s death, the child’s grandmother, Christie Hoskins, had notified authorities of her disappearance from their residence in Columbus, Georgia, as reported by the Montgomery Advertiser, a part of the USA TODAY Network.
Before his conviction, Williams had previously been linked to at least one other child abuse case in Alabama. He had faced charges of child abuse in Phenix City in 2009 and was acquitted by a jury in 2012.
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After the verdict, WTVM-TV reported that Kamarie’s father, Corey Holland, expressed that his daughter would never be forgotten. He shared with the outlet, “Seeing that justice was finally served, I’m deeply grateful.”
