*A jury in Gwinnett County, Georgia, convicted Celeste Owens of 21 charges related to the 2021 killing of her partner’s 8-year-old autistic daughter, Amari Hall.
After two hours of deliberation, the jury found Owens guilty of malice murder, felony murder, child cruelty, and other offenses. The case has drawn significant attention due to the disturbing details of the child’s death, with the judge describing it as one of the most evil cases of child cruelty she had ever seen. FOX5 Atlanta reports.
“This is by far, the most heinous, evil I have ever seen in my entire career and I do not understand it,” Judge Angela Duncan said during the sentencing following the verdict.
Prosecutor Sabrina Nizam presented graphic evidence highlighting that Owens and the child’s mother, Brittany Hall, were both involved in the abuse.
In other law news, this big backed abuser and murderer, Celeste Owens, was found GUILTY Friday night for the murder of 8 year old Amari Hall in Gwinnett County Ga. Her sorry excuse for a mother, Brittany Hall, is next up… Hope her cell mates are mothers who really miss their… pic.twitter.com/uQUItXorjj
— Mel Schiffer (@TheVibesCulture) December 16, 2024
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“This defendant helped beat the living life out of Amari,” Nizam told the jury.
“Slapping them in the back of the head, the stomping, the blindfolding, the laying on the ground — they did this together; their method was together,” Nizam said.
Days after Hall reported her child missing, Amari’s body was discovered in a wooded area in DeKalb County, in November 2021. According to prosecutors, Owens issued a fatal blow to the little girl before putting her body in trash bags and dumping her in the forest. Hall awaits trial at a later date for her role in her daughter’s death.
“My heart is empty. I miss Amari every day,” Amari’s grandmother, Barbara Wright, said during the sentencing hearing.
“My heart is broken in millions of pieces that I have not been able to put back together,” she added.
“I talk to her like she’s still here. There are days when I can hear her voice,” Wright shared.
Tacara Wright, Amari’s aunt, told the judge that the child “definitely didn’t deserve that.”
“Respectfully judge, I hope she burns in hell,” said Wright.
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