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ATLANTA – A Atlanta mother accused of killing her two young sons by putting them in an oven he was convicted of 14 charges, including murder. Lamora Williams, 24, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole plus 35 years.

The case stems from an incident in October 2017, when Williams called 911 shortly before midnight and told the operator she came home to find her children dead. Officers arrived to find the bodies of Ja’Karter Penn, 1, and Ke’Yaunte Penn, 2, with severe burns.

“When I went in, the stove was on my son, on my youngest son’s head, and my other son was on the floor with his brain on the floor. I don’t know what to do. he came home from work,” Williams said in a chilling 911 call.

Williams initially claimed she had left her three children with a sitter from noon until late that evening, returning to find the boys dead and the sitter gone. However, prosecutors alleged that Williams put Ja’Karter and Ke’Yaunte in the oven sometime between late Thursday night and early Friday morning.

Around the same time frame, Jameel Penn, the boys’ father, made a frantic call to 911 from his workplace. He told dispatchers that Williams video called him, showing the lifeless bodies of their children.

“He video called me and he showed me that and I saw it (sic),” Penn said. “I think they’re really dead.”

Prosecutors presented evidence that contradicted Williams’ claims, and the jury found her guilty of two counts, four counts of murder, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of first-degree child cruelty, two counts of concealment of death. of another, one count of second-degree child cruelty and one count of making a false statement.

Brenda Williams, Lamora’s mother, previously told FOX 5 that her daughter had a long history of mental illness and believed she “broke” after her split from Penn.